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Thread ID: 53935	2005-01-31 15:37:00	Search Engine Polluter Tells All	vinref (6194)	PC World Chat

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319790	2005-01-31 15:37:00	An interview (www.theregister.co.uk) with a Search Engine Optimiser about his craft, his morality and money. If you are not familiar with Search Engine Optimisation, it is where some shady dude ask you for money and in return he gets your site listed in a prominent position in search results from a search engine, usually Google. While that's fine and dandy for you and the shady dude, it pollutes the search results, much like spam pollutes your inbox. Clicking on a dud search result is like reading mail to realise it is spam. And there is no way of filtering it. I now use very specific Google search strings, with operators like "-", "+", "inurl:" and "link:" to avoid all the trash coming through. Anyone else have better tricks?	vinref (6194)
319791	2005-01-31 19:40:00	I now use very specific Google search strings, with operators like "-", "+", "inurl:" and "link:" to avoid all the trash coming through. Anyone else have better tricks? Thanks for posting this. Do you mind explaining what the following are for? "-", "+", "inurl:" and "link:" Or is this explained somewhere on Google?	Strommer (42)
319792	2005-02-01 00:50:00	Steve, if you use the "Advanced Search" option in Google, it will put in the include/exclude/... options for you. Look at the search strings it produces for you, and you'll pick up the syntax. Google pride themselves on detecting attempts to artificially improve the rankings, and take the appropriate action when they catch someone. ;)	Graham L (2)
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