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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Liberty Harbor North Gaming Search Engines

Someone from Liberty Harbor North's sales department isn't happy with their Google rank. Links to the website LibertyHarbor.com have begun appearing on Jersey City focused message boards in posts that are little more than human generated spam.

Posts on JCList linking to LibertyHarbor.com appeared as non sequitur statements in threads having little to do with Liberty Harbor North. The messages originated from different user accounts, but shared an Internet Protocol address, the unique way a computer is identified over the net.

The goal of the messages is for search engines to associate certain words such as "Jersey City" and "condos" with the site. Many search engines categorize websites using the words included in the link to the site.

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Blogger PDC Ryan said...

If they were so interested in page rank... maybe they should invest more in updating the site every now and... I don't know... eight months!

9:20 PM  
Blogger Ian said...

One would think they would...

9:21 AM  

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