Petunia
Dormant account
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2004
- Location
- Woman lives in London
* Or just an annoyance?
I have recently gone on a mission to check the rankings and working on SEO stuff for casinos.
As a matter of interest, I checked on some of my favourite casinos to see where and how they ranked. As any good investigator would, I also checked other message boards and relevant companies!
Most of the time I would enter their domain name first, to confirm the spelling, and then proceed to see how many variations there are etc.
Then I noticed something odd. When you type in a casino name in google, to the right you find the adwords sponsored links. In there was the casino link (as a header to an add) and of course, by clicking on it, you will find that you end up on a page selling some system or the other!! (Baccarat, slots, each having their own site!)
I contacted my casino, and asked them if they had any association with this other website, and the reply was pretty much NOT AT ALL - if they did, Id be thinking them idiots anyway, but one never knows!!
Anyway, this intrigued me to the point where I made a game of this and started entering in casino names at random, and known message boards in the industry low and behold, them too are advertised in this way!
This persons add then looks as follows:
www.winneronline.com (header)
Poker, Blackjack, Slots, & More!
Tips & Strategies To Win Big Cash
www.winningbaccaratsystem.com (actual url!)
Both linking to the actual url of course!!
Well, I want to know if the owners of these domains are aware of this happening?! This person very cleverly disguised some of this by NOT using the url but only the name (as in the case with Meister!)
Casinomeister (Header linking to website)
Choose From a Wide Variety of Your
Favorite Games Now. Free & Easy!
www.LoveFreeGames.com (actual url)
I picked up on all these names, and ran a Who Is on them, and again, low and behold!! Most of these sites are registered to the same person or group!!
I want to know this from you guys today, as I am NOT very clued up on these things.
Is this fraud of some kind?
Does this not contravene some marketing law that google has?
I contacted google and asked them to get back to me, but they stated that this was an adwords issue, and therefore I have to wait for a reply from them since they are only a virtual office and you can only contact them via e-mail. It has been TWO DAYS now since I made this discovery, and no news yet.
Am I the only one who cant seem to accept this as just clever marketing scemes? You guys can even put in MICROGAMING and whallah!! Same results. Dont believe me? Try it who knows you might be promoting these systems yourself and in avertedly put your name to it.
Anyways, I have informed at least the casinos that I know who said theyd look into the matter. What do you guys think? Any reason for concern here at all?? **
I have recently gone on a mission to check the rankings and working on SEO stuff for casinos.
As a matter of interest, I checked on some of my favourite casinos to see where and how they ranked. As any good investigator would, I also checked other message boards and relevant companies!
Most of the time I would enter their domain name first, to confirm the spelling, and then proceed to see how many variations there are etc.
Then I noticed something odd. When you type in a casino name in google, to the right you find the adwords sponsored links. In there was the casino link (as a header to an add) and of course, by clicking on it, you will find that you end up on a page selling some system or the other!! (Baccarat, slots, each having their own site!)
I contacted my casino, and asked them if they had any association with this other website, and the reply was pretty much NOT AT ALL - if they did, Id be thinking them idiots anyway, but one never knows!!
Anyway, this intrigued me to the point where I made a game of this and started entering in casino names at random, and known message boards in the industry low and behold, them too are advertised in this way!
This persons add then looks as follows:
www.winneronline.com (header)
Poker, Blackjack, Slots, & More!
Tips & Strategies To Win Big Cash
www.winningbaccaratsystem.com (actual url!)
Both linking to the actual url of course!!
Well, I want to know if the owners of these domains are aware of this happening?! This person very cleverly disguised some of this by NOT using the url but only the name (as in the case with Meister!)
Casinomeister (Header linking to website)
Choose From a Wide Variety of Your
Favorite Games Now. Free & Easy!
www.LoveFreeGames.com (actual url)
I picked up on all these names, and ran a Who Is on them, and again, low and behold!! Most of these sites are registered to the same person or group!!
I want to know this from you guys today, as I am NOT very clued up on these things.
Is this fraud of some kind?
Does this not contravene some marketing law that google has?
I contacted google and asked them to get back to me, but they stated that this was an adwords issue, and therefore I have to wait for a reply from them since they are only a virtual office and you can only contact them via e-mail. It has been TWO DAYS now since I made this discovery, and no news yet.
Am I the only one who cant seem to accept this as just clever marketing scemes? You guys can even put in MICROGAMING and whallah!! Same results. Dont believe me? Try it who knows you might be promoting these systems yourself and in avertedly put your name to it.
Anyways, I have informed at least the casinos that I know who said theyd look into the matter. What do you guys think? Any reason for concern here at all?? **