To get Google to blacklist Experts Exchange. Maybe I'm alone on this - but it is insanely annoying to try and research questions only to get to a forum which requires a subscription before they'll show you anything. Do they have the answer? Do they not? Is it a boat? Maybe it's a boat!
I don't care if it's a yacht, I'm not paying a subscription so that I can find out what is behind door number two. The point is - these are invalid search results. They're not resulting in any useful information, they result in an ad for the Exchange. They're taking up extremely valuable space for other people with probably less evil SEO methods that might offer real answers.
Monday, February 09, 2009
I'd like to start a petition
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I'd sign that! Or at the least give me a way to black list it myself so it doesn't show up in my search results.
I was just thinking about this... How come Google can get search results from them? Do they have a deal with Google to index their searches? Or do they have something that just identifies the Google spiders? If it's the latter, I'm wondering if maybe you couldn't just spoof it.
Though I still prefer banning them :)
It's a trick. When I learned this, I couldn't believe it...
SCROLL DOWN.
That's all there is to it. Experts-Exchange reveals all their content right there... on the bottom of the page after their incredibly-lengthy link/ad/crap.
I'd like to throw my support behind this petition as well.
@Winkyboy - I think you might be mistaken. Sometimes they do post some of the "discussion" that goes on for that particular question, but it's hardly ever anything useful.
Actually, I use the trick all the time...
http://www.clazh.com/how-to-access-experts-exchange-and-bypass-without-registering/
Well I do love that they're enough of a sham that you can get a thread that has three posts "locked" with links to register, and then scroll down and the same posts are unlocked.
SEO trick, totally gaming the system. Now I think double they should be blacklisted.
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