This is an exclusive story, researched and written by Eric Van Buskirk How is it possible that MarkMonitor, Inc, who call themselves an international leader within the market for online corporate identity is secretly covering links on behalf of TimeWarner? So that you can rank high in the various search engines is this being accomplished on subdomains of timeinc.net? You decide. MarkMonitor owns the domain name timeinc.net, a site with a website which re-directs for the primary Time.com site. To discover additional info, please consider checking out: [http://forums.freeskier.com/forums2/index.php?p=/discussion/21786/laptop-o-n-cruise return to site]. So it would seem theyre running this site for TimeWarner. [http://daydreamers-tuath.de/j/components/com_jwiki/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_To_Get_Your_Site_Listed_By_Google_With-in_7-days Tumbshots] includes further about the meaning behind this view. If you visit the timeinc site and see some of the source code of the pages, you will find error pages that have links below a graphic map at the bottom of the site, links which are hidden from people and put into boost the search engine position of other Time Warner properties. This exercise is often known as Black Hat Search Engine Optimisation. An image map tells the browser how to show an image. That is its only purpose. But, a number of the pages on timeinc.net have links invisible to readers close to the image maps. It is evident you will find four links to other TimeWarner properties:, if one views the source of sub-domains such as img.timeinc.net or i.timeinc.net <MAP NAME=brandsmap <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=0,0,69,27 HREF=http://www.time.com/ <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=71,0,141,27 HREF=http://www.money.com/ <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=144,0,213,27 HREF=http://people.aol.com/ <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=215,0,287,27 HREF=http://www.fortune.com/ <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=288,0,357,27 HREF=http://www.ew.com/ <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=360,0,429,27 HREF=http://www.parenting.com/ <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=432,0,501,27 HREF=http://www.instyle.com/ <AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS=504,0,573,27 HREF=http://www.onmagazine.com/ </MAP </BODY </HTML Did MarkMonitor,inc, an enormous company and a real leader in protecting brand names online get this website, redirect the traffic to Time.com and find places to cover links to other Time websites from pure altruism? Its likely, but difficult to believe. It must be noted that we now have essential membership pages on other sub-domains of timeinc. This is not a domain that was cast away and has no value for linking. as it would appear if MarkMonitor actively put links, altruism towards Time seems an unlikely reason. There is an ever more fine line with whats appropriate and whats maybe not for seo. At ClickStream, we think the last class that requires to employ sly techniques to rank high are fortune 500 businesses. Essentially, these businesses are the ones which have entire rings of websites. However, search-engines can exclude individuals that create multiple sites for the purpose of connecting together and developing a link range. To learn additional info, consider glancing at: [http://www.yangjiabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=33909 intangible]. Time should be able to link in a group having its various media companies. [http://www.sppaddict.com/discussion/201916/using-blogs-for-ad-sense-and-affiliate-earnings-mixed Http://Www.Surfline.Com/Company/Bios/Index.Cfm] contains further concerning the reason for this activity. That might seem an unfair advantage, nevertheless they are distinct entities that have the same parent organization. What undoubtedly seems unfair is to allow them to take further advantage of the round linking by covering links that only the search engines can see. The recent storm has just passed over the BMW being taken off the Google internet search engine pages. BMWs German site was found using doorway pages to list for his or her site and build traffic. Google could record that BMWs German internet site used the search results to get a top ranking if people looked for used car. Searching for BMW Germany brings no benefits. BMW.ge was well positioned nonetheless it dropped entirely from the index in a matter of 2-days..