Could time warner be using black hat seo to help search rankings

Could Time Warner be using black hat seo to Help Search Rankings?

Is it possible that MarkMonitor, Inc., who call themselves a global leader in the fast-growing market for online corporate identity has been secretly hiding links on behalf of TimeWarner? There is an increasingly fine line with what is acceptable and what is not for search engine optimization.

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Is it possible that MarkMonitor, Inc., who call themselves a global leader in the fast-growing market for online corporate identity has been secretly hiding links on behalf of TimeWarner? Is this being done on subdomains of timeinc.net in order to rank high in the search engines? You decide. MarkMonitor owns the domain name timeinc.net, a site with a homepage which re-directs to the main Time.com site. So it would seem they are running this site on behalf of TimeWarner.

If you go to the timeinc site and view some of the source code of the pages, you will find error pages that have links below an image map at the bottom of the page, links which are hidden from viewers and added to increase the search engine ranking of other Time Warner properties. This link-hiding practice is often referred to as Black Hat SEO.

An image map tells the browser how to display an image. That is its only purpose. However, some of the pages on timeinc.net have links hidden

 

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