In the IM world you would be. It's all English.
First of all, nobody likes a tattle-tale. I'm surprised you made it to adulthood (?) without ever hearing that, sounds like a foreign concept to you.
There is no legal/illegal when it comes to backlinks. It's "Google prefers that you do this instead of that". Honestly how can anyone think that disobeying Google's terms of service results into something "illegal", really? You think cops are going to go banging on this guy's door and asking them to come down to the station and explain why he's not following Google's terms of service guide for webmasters? lol
Take a look around. Everyone here backlinks to their website. 99.999% of that is against Google's preference for how you should get backlinks to your website. You literally could have reported ANYONE on this forum. Therefore, you should suffer the wrath of everyone's scorn.
And don't think you're vindicated somehow because you don't somehow compete with this person ... that makes it all that more retarded. It's like you poached an elephant but that's ok because you're not interested in selling its tusks on the black market. Oh ok.
I dunno' ... I don't think I like where OP is going with all this from what I'm understanding.
This is a BH forum where we discuss black hat ways.
OP is here on BHW because he says he wants to learn everything he's against when it comes to SEO, and ranking in Google in a way that ... to answer OP's question, Google doesn't like.
Reporting a site to G because he sees there is some black hat SEO going on with it, that to me is just another form of negative SEO to get an edge over a competitor ... which is black hat SEO also.
My question is, can you put those hidden links by yourself? Most probably, the answer is NO, because you actually don't know how to. SAPE registrations are closed as I heard a few days ago. So leave SAPE aside.
So, the point is.. You don't know how to do it. If you knew, you yourself would have done that and never complained. How did Facebook become so popular? By Hidden links? NO!! They became popular because they had an interesting system which many liked. So why not build a website that everyone will prefer visiting at least once a day, instead of crying here about the unfair game? Afterall, it is visitors that matter the most, not the links....
I am also in wonder. I think Google creating an opportunity of such search engine which will provide 100% of reward to White Hat seo Persons.I observed in many cases that Google gave preference to Black hat Seo and those site which violate its Rules.I see a site on #1 in webdesign the very competitive keyword with 2600 hidden seo links.I complain this site with proof two times before 6 month ago through webmaster tools but still that site on #1.Is it Google joke white hat seo who doing White Hat SEO.That Site earning Thousands of EURO on daily Basis by doing Black hat SEO.So may we consider that Google now Supporting Black hat and Illegal SEO???????????????????
I think The Spammers are very fast and Google is very very slow according to them.Google just design Rules but failed in their implementations.?? Is It wrong ??
Violating Google's Webmaster Guidelines isn't illegal, last time I checked.
Why do people get this idea that breaking the rules of a certain entity is illegal? Illegal means breaking the laws set up by the government, not some company. The morons who simply can't grasp this concept cease to amaze me.
Illegal SEO?
Some spoofing, trojans, keylogging, anti trust and anti privacy stuff. Yeah some of that is illegal
But illegal SEO... search engine optimization (as opposed to fraud, deception or theft) what's that then?
I am also in wonder. I think Google creating an opportunity of such search engine which will provide 100% of reward to White Hat seo Persons.I observed in many cases that Google gave preference to Black hat Seo and those site which violate its Rules.I see a site on #1 in webdesign the very competitive keyword with 2600 hidden seo links.I complain this site with proof two times before 6 month ago through webmaster tools but still that site on #1.Is it Google joke white hat seo who doing White Hat SEO.That Site earning Thousands of EURO on daily Basis by doing Black hat SEO.So may we consider that Google now Supporting Black hat and Illegal SEO???????????????????
I think The Spammers are very fast and Google is very very slow according to them.Google just design Rules but failed in their implementations.?? Is It wrong ??
Dear Mate You don't know about the real mater.Tell me when you are designing clients websites as a company.Is it right to gave hidden links of your site along with the anchor text.I think clients never allow these types links.Further i could understand your point of view which focusing that create some Authority site which having great user attraction.I wrote many researches about this on SEO magazines.But some sites pure business nature no care about ad-sense,Amazon or Click Bank or any affiliate services.Thanks to gave me the nice suggestions. Please let me clear about this if you are the website designer is it right to gave hidden links in client's sites.?? One thing is good if client allow you you can show on Footer or Sidebar.But many client not allowed you then you gave in hidden link..After analyzing many other back links i found this in some more sites but they did on very small scale hardly in 1 to 5 sites that is ignorable.But 2200 links much more and at last GOOGLE notice this because these types Tricks just for the temporary basis.Now that site after the latest Update even not in the first 2 pages.That sites with quality links still on 1st page...
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Illegal SEO?
Some spoofing, trojans, keylogging, anti trust and anti privacy stuff. Yeah some of that is illegal
But illegal SEO... search engine optimization (as opposed to fraud, deception or theft) what's that then?