BMW gets google bump

[10 Yetis]

seen this?

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-13503969,00.html

[Jayne]

Oh the little monkies :lol:

There's hope for us little people yet! Ban all the big one's and we can all move up :lol:

Jayne

[Mwebb]

It seems Goolge don't just pick on the small guys.?
Oh well lessons to be learnt...there aren't any short cuts to top google rankings.!!

[Tin]

Nice to see Google being pro-active in enforcing it's own webmaster guidelines, just wish they'd do it much more often :-)

[multilingual]

Yes, was reading all about that last night on Webmasterworld forum.

It's down to the fact that they use two different home pages to spam the system using redirect.

One is text based for the search engine spiders, but we would never see that one. All a visitor would see is the glossy web page with all the cars on it.

Completely against Google policy.

JB

[webit]

I'll offer them a discount on theShoppersBible.com them

(info@bmw.com ?)

[JustOneUK]

I have already commented on this on another forum,

Personally i think it's just a ploy by google to get them onboard with an Adwords campaign.
As they systematically remove companies from google they will be faced with no other choice...

it's an internet control thing for sure...

British Airways next ;)

[multilingual]

Do you really think that BMW needs Google so much that it would resort to using adwords?

Can't see it myself.

JB

[MinuWeb]

Do you really think that BMW needs Google so much that it would resort to using adwords?

Can't see it myself.

JBme neither, there is a big difference between searching for BMW and Mercedes........

[VeryMark]

......... thing is of course, it's given BMW so much free publicity that it'll have put their clicks right up!

[mumper]

I've got a Google sticker on my BMW.

[seabro]

I've got a Google sticker on my BMW.

So who's cortina did I see you driving the other day?

:-)

[duenna]

BMW gets reincluded in Googles index!

Thats less than three days! Wonder what the next batch of company cars will be at the Googleplex.

If that was one of our websites or a non corporate site we would be looking at 30 days before re index.

Disgusting me thinks.

[Rob Holmes]

i think it's just a ploy by google to get them onboard with an Adwords campaign.

I bet they wouldn't do it for big spenders that already have adwords.

Anyone still think the search results aren't manipulated?

Rob

[VeryMark]

Article: BMW.de website back on Google's 'approved' list 08 Feb 2006. Source: just-auto.com editorial team.

Text follows:

BMW's German website has now been relisted in Google’s index after last week falling foul of the internet search engine’s anti-webspam measures.

Google’s blog on Wednesday confirmed the automaker had complied with conditions for re-listing.

“[We] appreciate BMW’s quick response on removing JavaScript-redirecting pages from BMW properties. The webspam team at Google has been in contact with BMW, and Google has reincluded bmw.de in our index,” the blog said.

Google has been deleting pages from its search index that have artificially high rankings as a direct result of dubious search engine optimisation techniques.

After a period addressing English language pages, it recently began to focus on international sites.

In the case of BMW’s German website, Google found that the car maker used techniques that presented substantially different pages when the search engine visited compared to real human visitors.

Google had previously said it would need some assurance from BMW that such pages wouldn’t reappear on its websites before the domains could be reincluded in its index.

In a worst-case scenario, BMW Germany could have had its pages removed from the index for at least several weeks.

[10 Yetis]

i am outraged at google re-indexing them so quickly!

Would they do that for us other small businesses?

[wilfredw]

Vorsprung durch Technik !!!

W.

[Ian J]

About three months ago the factoring subsidiary of Lloyds Bank suddenly suffered the same fate as it was delisted ( putting me into the number one slot incidentally).

This time it took two months before they were re-admitted to the club but when they were it didn't take long before they were back in the top three.

I don't know what they did to gain re-admittance because their site is still optimized to the gills with a variety of different landing pages all optimised for slight variations on key phrases plus inbound links from a variety of dubious sites including one owned by their web optimising company that has about 1,000 pages all filled with irrelevant rubbish and each one linking to this particular Lloyds Bank subsidiary.

[webmonkey]

Most big company webmasters are involved in cloaking in some shape or form. If you are spending £200,000 a year on adwords it seems unfair you can get better results spending £20,000 and never get caught.

The BMW case has only brought the practise into the public eye and over the next year it will only get more popular!