Comments on: Cloaking by Major Aussie Travel Site Exposed at SMX Sydney http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/ Your Daily Search Engine Advice Column Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Chris http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-73262 Chris Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:34:06 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-73262 Now that's funny! I wasted ages trying to convince a customer of mine that cloaking was a bad idea, and they got a similar result. It's interesting to play with, but a very poor idea for a business website. Now that’s funny! I wasted ages trying to convince a customer of mine that cloaking was a bad idea, and they got a similar result. It’s interesting to play with, but a very poor idea for a business website.

]]> By: SMX Sydney Day 2 Recap | Ask Kalena http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-14533 SMX Sydney Day 2 Recap | Ask Kalena Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:58:13 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-14533 [...] Afternoon tea came next and everyone raced towards the chocolate brownies and caffeine with gusto. Everyone compared notes about their favorite sessions from the day and buzz began to grow about the upcoming Site Clinic and what might be exposed after last year’s dramatic Flight Centre cloaking expose. [...] [...] Afternoon tea came next and everyone raced towards the chocolate brownies and caffeine with gusto. Everyone compared notes about their favorite sessions from the day and buzz began to grow about the upcoming Site Clinic and what might be exposed after last year’s dramatic Flight Centre cloaking expose. [...]

]]> By: Andy http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-883 Andy Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:32:18 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-883 Ooops... sorry the URL for Catalogue Central; is in fact : www.cataloguecentral.com.au Ooops… sorry the URL for Catalogue Central; is in fact : http://www.cataloguecentral.com.au

]]> By: Andy http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-882 Andy Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:26:39 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-882 Thanks Kalena, yes it certainly was an entertaining session. Apparently Flight Centres "Young Guns" had nothing to do with the cloaking ... and were oblivious (until first thing Monday morning of course). It seems that the suspect pages have been around alot longer... and the functionality in fact seems to have been "borrowed" (or probably licenced) from www.cataloguescentral.com.au who have a whole pile of catalogues, from a whole range of companies (and industries), and guess what ... all of those seem to use the same cloaking technique - although from a quick look I had yesterday Flight Center seemed to be a bit more agressive in the technique than most. At time of posting Catalogue Central seems to be experiencing a bunch of VBScript runtime errors - perhaps in a rush to fix the "problem" before they are outed as well.... ooops... too late Thanks Kalena, yes it certainly was an entertaining session.

Apparently Flight Centres “Young Guns” had nothing to do with the cloaking … and were oblivious (until first thing Monday morning of course). It seems that the suspect pages have been around alot longer… and the functionality in fact seems to have been “borrowed” (or probably licenced) from http://www.cataloguescentral.com.au who have a whole pile of catalogues, from a whole range of companies (and industries), and guess what … all of those seem to use the same cloaking technique – although from a quick look I had yesterday Flight Center seemed to be a bit more agressive in the technique than most.

At time of posting Catalogue Central seems to be experiencing a bunch of VBScript runtime errors – perhaps in a rush to fix the “problem” before they are outed as well…. ooops… too late

]]> By: Kalena Jordan http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Kalena Jordan Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:58:02 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-876 @ Yuliya - well they will certainly be getting exposure, but whether it's the type of exposure they want is another story. @ Judd - it was classic. Can't wait to see what next year's conference reveals! @ Yuliya – well they will certainly be getting exposure, but whether it’s the type of exposure they want is another story.
@ Judd – it was classic. Can’t wait to see what next year’s conference reveals!

]]> By: Judd Exley http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-875 Judd Exley Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:16:01 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-875 Sadly, I had to miss out on SMX Sydney, but to be there for that would've been CLASSIC. Sadly, I had to miss out on SMX Sydney, but to be there for that would’ve been CLASSIC.

]]> By: Edwin Joseph http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Edwin Joseph Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:50:11 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-874 Cloaking is only a desperate move for people who doesn't have confidence on achieving success. Thought it a bad thing to know that many people depend on it.. Cloaking is only a desperate move for people who doesn’t have confidence on achieving success. Thought it a bad thing to know that many people depend on it..

]]> By: Yuliya http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Yuliya Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:27:08 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/search-engine-spam/cloaking-by-major-aussie-travel-site-exposed-at-smx-sydney/#comment-873 I don't think that this method of "optimization" could really help them, but lot's of discussion of this, mention the name of the company and posting links on those site or parts of the site in different blogs and other sites could raise their rate. Therefore it seems they achieve their target. Am I wrong? I don’t think that this method of “optimization” could really help them, but lot’s of discussion of this, mention the name of the company and posting links on those site or parts of the site in different blogs and other sites could raise their rate. Therefore it seems they achieve their target.
Am I wrong?

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