The Google Forum

**CAL** · 02-06-2006, 09:56 PM

The BMW website had a doorway page with hidden keywords trhough it, including "used cards" appearing 24 times!!

So Google dropped their PageRank back to 0

READ THE ARTICLE

Was interesting to see that noone is excempt from Google Terms and Conditions!

**CAL** · 02-06-2006, 09:58 PM

Ahhhh....just beaten to the punch!

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/google...-stuffing.html

**john546** · 02-08-2006, 09:20 PM

I also heard about this on another forum. It's nice to know that even big companies like BMW are also getting kicked out of Google.

**luke456** · 02-10-2006, 01:45 AM

as we speak its already back.

**webspace** · 02-10-2006, 02:03 AM

There are alot of really big networks hording keywords with Gateway pages still. There should be a watchdog group for SE spammers.

**stOx** · 02-10-2006, 07:04 AM

Wasn't googles policy "build websites for users, Not search engines"?
So what was thier problem with BMW sending certain users to the most useful pages?

**chrishirst** · 02-10-2006, 08:05 AM

the problem was not sending the bots to the same pages!

**stOx** · 02-10-2006, 08:28 AM

How could they do that?
If different people are sent to different pages based on thier country how could they send the bots to all of them?

**chrishirst** · 02-10-2006, 09:19 AM

It was purely on .de that they were using javascript doorways