Keyword stuffing, immortality and Google search results
August 2, 2007
Has Google found a threatening nemesis to world domination to the point that it would not let the website of one guy appear in any of its search results?
That's what Alex Chiu, owner of a site that sells products believed to "allow humans to stay physically young forever," wants us to believe. Chiu's eponymous site — www.alexchiu.com — is currently "banned" in Google, which means, the site does not appear in any of Google's SERPs or search engine results pages.
Try it. Google "alexchiu.com" and you'll find websites that mention or link to Chiu's site. But you will never see his actual site in any of the search results.
Of course, not appearing in Google hurts the sales of Chiu's "Immortality Devices" — products he is selling online that can supposedly "arrest and even reverse the aging process, lessen the intensity of most diseases, and lead to physical immortality when worn nightly."
So in retaliation, Chiu put up a site encouraging people to "spread the word" that Google is afraid his technology would soon put the search engine giant out of business.
Close to 50% of people use Google search engine. And for some reason, AlexChiu.com is banned by Google. They don't want you to know about Alex Chiu because Alex Chiu's stuff is no joke. I mean if Alex Chiu's technology is just a scam, why would a big guy like Google ban a domain like AlexChiu.com? Surely some very important people, mainly the ones that control the pharmaceutical industry, do not want you to learn about Alex Chiu. They fear that Alex Chiu's technology will one day put them out of business.
- From www.alexchiu.com/spread.htm
Is Google afraid of Alex Chiu?
Not really.
Why Chiu's site does not appear in Google search results is explained by Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google and popular blogger. Cutts pointed out that Chiu hid and stuffed keywords in the site — keywords that are irrelevant and, at times, nonsensical. These ranged from "plasma tv advanced chart" to "rational baldness osteoarthritis heaven motley" to "internal vagina aphrodisia doping hardware." Huh? (View all these keywords in Cutts's blog.)
Cutts stressed that keyword stuffing — loading a webpage with keywords in an attempt to manipulate a site's ranking in Google's search results — is a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
Thus the reason Alex Chiu's site is banned is not because Google is afraid of him but because his site violated Google's basic website quality guidelines.
He should have known that once he violated any of those guidelines — even if he possesses immortality devices — in Google, his website is as good as dead.






Mai 19th, 2009 at %H:%M
Interesting! Ikaw talaga James napaka parang suspense ng mga sulat mo..haha..ang galing mo!
Mai 19th, 2009 at %H:%M
Haha, na-amuse din lang ako sa website ni Alexa Chiu kaya nasulat yang article. By the way, mukhang tinanggal na niya yung stuffed keywords sa site niya kasi as of today, balik na uli sa SERP ang site nya.