Comments on: Are Toyota breaking the Google Webmaster Guidelines?

By: Ciarán

Ciarán — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:07:35 +0000

Hi Pat,

This was actually written by my colleague James. Maybe you should get in touch with Toyota, see if they need ‘walking’ though the guidelines!

Ciarán

By: pat

pat — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:38:09 +0000

Guidelines? did someone say guidelines????

HMmmm good catch. It was great meeting you i Seattke, we rock.

By: Vygantas

Vygantas — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:14:01 +0000

Good Find, I am bit tired of “big” companies doing nasty things.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:43:31 +0000

Instead of using server side redirects based on requested URL, they use Javascript for it, which also means that without Javascript enabled, no page!

But, if one has Javascript disabled they wouldn’t even see the hidden links, of course, so they aren’t really hidden if there is effectively no page.

As for the CSS hidden links in the initial page after Javascript rewrites almost the entire page, they seem to end up in the footer of the page, which is gray, so they are no longer hidden.

Is what they are doing an attempt to deceive? I doubt it.

Is what they are doing smart? Not at all. :-()

By: Sherwood

Sherwood — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:23:51 +0000

They are indeed - and those sitemaps are keyword-filled, too.