ECogra Hides Your Links

[ck8795]

I know loads of people here link to ECogra so reposting John's message - you might want to check this thread out

http://www.pokeraffiliatelistings.co...html#post89617

[LiveCasinoPartners]

Didn't they have a campaign offering a link back the the "reputable" portal owners in exchange for a link? THat was a pure link campaign then without the "give" part.

[Betpartners]

Absolutely no surprise that Ecogra have done this.

Makes a mockery of one their slogans

Best operational practice

Well if that is best operational practice then I wonder what they would consider bad operational practice.

[FictionNet]

eCOGRA have consistently failed to act on disreputable and spamming operators and they don't even bother replying to e-mails about it now. I'm about to request a removal of my 'reputable portal' link and make a very public notice about it.

eCOGRA are NOT a reputable organisation - they've proved it by their inaction.

[matted]

Isnt this really link cloaking? That should/must be against Googles acceptable practices?!

[hakank]

Isnt this really link cloaking? That should/must be against Googles acceptable practices?!

Well.. ODP should be banned by google too if it's cloaking

hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking

Cloaking is a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different to that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page. The purpose of cloaking is to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed.
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A similar technique is also used on the Open Directory Project web directory. It differs in several ways from search engine cloaking:

• It is intended to fool human editors, rather than computer search engine spiders.
• The decision to cloak or not is often based upon the HTTP referrer, the user agent or the visitor's IP; but more advanced techniques can be also based upon the client's behaviour analysis after a few page requests: the raw quantity, the sorting of, and latency between subsequent HTTP requests sent to a website's pages, plus the presence of a check for robots.txt file, are some of the parameters in which search engines spiders differ heavily from a natural user behaviour. The referrer tells the URL of the page on which a user clicked a link to get to the page. Some cloakers will give the fake page to anyone who comes from a web directory website, since directory editors will usually examine sites by clicking on links that appear on a directory web page. Other cloakers give the fake page to everyone except those coming from a major search engine; this makes it harder to detect cloaking, while not costing them many visitors, since most people find websites by using a search engine.