[TheChaosFactor]

For all those who read this thread, as I did, and were still unsure of what to think, I bring you:

Cutts explained that when Google's crawlers visited a BMW page, it saw blocks of text with repeated key search words such as "neuwagen," which means "new car" in German. However, when a user visited the listed page they would be automatically redirected to another page with less text and more pictures, which was more attractive than the page the crawler saw, but would have scored lower in Google's PageRank system.

"This is a violation of our Webmaster quality guidelines, specifically the principle of 'Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users,'" Cutts' blog said.

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It took BMW about a week's time, and who knows how much to their team of lawyers, to get re-listed. Don't think you'll get nearly the same treatment without being able to blame an SEO company, and have some lawyers do some fancy talk for you. Google is srs bsns.

And I'm not hating. I couldn't have written a mod like this myself if my life depended on it.