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Honda Motor Europe Ltd Hires Unethical Black Hat Search Engine Marketing Company
Today I received an email from a woman named Daisy Morris who apparently works for a black hat search engine marketing company. If you look at the screen shot of the email I received you will see that she is trying to get people to do a three way link exchange. This is heavily frowned on by Google. Many websites do link exchanges (You link to mine ...
, Ill link to yours) but they dont hold much weight for Search Engine Optimization because Google and others know you are linking to each other. This woman is offering a link from a pagerank 5 website if you link to a different website. This way it would appear to not be a link exchange. This practice can get you de-indexed in Google which can put you out of business. Of course, its not easy for them to catch you. My SEO Quake Toolbar Says It's a Pagerank 5[12]
My SEO Quake Toolbar Says It (Click To Enlarge)
The kicker is this woman and this company are scammers. They have a fake Pagerank! Click here to learn about how people fake their pagerank[13]. She is emailing thousands of people trying to get links to a site that Honda owns. I highly doubt this company works for free, so I am assuming they were hired by Honda.
Amateur webmasters who dont stay up with the latest still think having a massive pagerank will help you in Google. Well, it will a little bit but not like it used to. Do a search for anything in Google then check the pagerank of the first 5 pages that come up and you will see what I mean.
How could I tell? The first thing I look at on any website like that is how many links are pointing to that site. There are 0 so its impossible to have a pagerank so I dug a little deeper and checked its PR out on a fake Pagerank Checker[15] website (for lack of a better word).
To dig even more deeper I wanted to know who they were working for. Thats an easy task these days thanks to the WHOIS[16]. If you look at the website that the fraudster wanted me to link to, you will see its owned by Honda Motor Europe LTD. I wonder if Honda knows they have a pirate marketing firm working for them scamming people into linking to a Honda owned website?
Whois Record For Domain In Question
Notice I didnt link to any of the sites I was talking about. Why? Im not going to provide them with any links. You can look at the URLs on the email and type them in and youll see what I mean.
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