Bump App Acquired by Google

Follow FullPress on Google Add us to your preferred sources. Reports regarding Google‘s anti-competitive behavior have been circulating for some time, reaching the relevant authorities. Although Almunia did not explicitly name Google, the reference was

No intervention from Google
What’s strange is that no one has reported such irregularity to Google and that no Quality Rater has noticed such a high PageRank, which clearly highlights, without needing scientific calculations, an anomaly. Perhaps precisely because the site is little known, it has been ignored. The links on this site are outbound, but just follow the destination of the hidden links to understand where they lead. Looking at the HTML code with any browser, you immediately notice that other links are present on the destination sites, and so on, forming chains of hidden links intertwined with each other. Clearly, the agency’s site also receives links from the satellite sites, and so the PageRank rises without having to work to achieve better positions. In my research, I discovered a site that has over 50 hidden links on the homepage disguised as a 1-pixel image. Webmasters and more technical users will understand exactly what I mean. However, I find it very strange that with the most important keyword the site does not rank in the SERPs. It may also be that Google has penalized the site in the SERPs without affecting PageRank. The agency’s clients’ sites, however, seem to have not yet received any penalties.

The Agency’s network from hidden links

Sure, if the links are hidden, I wonder how a network member can receive money for a click on a link that no user can see?

Google anti-spam report and sold links
Google, for its part, suggests reporting these “anomalies” and especially these spam actions (hidden links are spam techniques) with two forms provided anonymously or via WebMaster Tools:

1)     Form to report spam to Google
2)     Form to report link buying and selling to Google 

I often read in various places on the Web about delays by Google in taking action following reports. When in doubt, it is always good to report, because the more reports we make, the more hope we have that the Web can free itself from these actors that the Internet can easily do without.

In this case, I have made my report to Google. On behalf of myself and FullPress, I invite you to do the same in similar situations. If you have similar cases to propose to the editorial team, we will be happy to analyze them.

The name of the agency and its site never appeared in this article or in the images. I did not want to protect the agency but simply avoided driving traffic and notoriety to those who, due to the use of illicit techniques, deserve no consideration from users or search engines, especially Google.

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