traffic-power.com

Ipscman -

A little more research and I may have found your family company! Does it make Mobile Extenders by any chance?

- duz

See this topic, also about traffic-power:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Online_Marketing/Q_20380143.html

especially this post:
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Comment from tqmbill
Date: 04/08/2003 10:13PM CEST
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AHA!  I finally found the smoking gun.  As the original poster, I felt a follow up was in order.

The methods of Traffic-Power.com are definitely to blame for my client's website being BLACKLISTED by the MSN search engine, starting last Sept. 2002.  

http://www.bizresearch.com/internetresearch.htm

This link tells an identical story.  Beware the use of "link farms" specifically these pages are named "lkpool.html" by traffic-power.

A few quotes, in case the link changes:

<<We soon learned that our client's site had indeed been blacklisted by MSN,...

Inktomi, an MSN search partner, had indeed blacklisted our client's web site. I was shocked,...

We found a link to our client's web site, www.clientsite.com/lkpool.html. I pointed my browser to this URL up and discovered what is called a "link farm", which listed hundreds if not thousands of links to other sites, some 20-plus pages long. ...

We immediately removed all of the files associated with this company [traffic-power.com], from their site. We removed the link farm code, and rewrote the metatags on the home page. >>  
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I was contacted by traffic-power on friday 3/26/04.  I have never been in such a high pressure sales position.  I felt like i was on the other end of a call in the movie "boiler room" if anyone's seen it.
I was considering thier services but when i said i needed more time to consider, the salesman said (and i saw someone else who herd this on another string) "i've already bent over backwards" , "fine i'll just find your competitors" and hung up on me.  bear in mind i was seriously considering using them.  very shady that thier in such a rush to sign me up.

I looked fairly deeply into thier service.

Thier techniques seem to work, i've done basically the same thing on a smaller scale with good results.

it seems they just build phrase targeted web pages that redirect to the page you want as soon as you enter them.  one key is the pages don't redirect until mouseover (this is how they get around the search engines for now).

here is a list of some of thier clients: http://www.traffic-power.com/8G/
you can follow this link to see some of thier actual high ranked listings, as soon as you click the link get your cursor off the page so it won't redirect, then you can view the source code.

just copy thier code and substitute the keywords you want and the page you want it to go to.

Google Bans Traffic-Power and it's Clients! || Google now reads Javascript?

http://www.webpronews.com/printable.php


http://www.girardgibbs.com/traffic-power.html

javascript redirects & deceptive doorway pages seems to be the cause according to GoogleGuy
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But the fundamental purpose of any search engine is to offer relevant informaiton

If sites are pulled - the user still is deprived of THAT information

Perhaps the next evolution of search is to algorithmically neutralize those SEO affects - but still allow the VALID information to come up in relevant searches

I've just read this http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8683#post8683, I think It would be very stupid thing to use traffic-power services.

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