{"id":152,"date":"2006-02-06T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:54:39","slug":"what-are-bad-internet-business-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/what-are-bad-internet-business-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"What are &#8220;bad&#8221; internet business practices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s the best example I&#8217;ve seen in a long time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This past week, BMW got removed from the Google search engine results in Germany. <\/p>\n<p>Why? Because they were showing Google one thing, and the public something else, which violates Google&#8217;s Terms of Service agreement. <\/p>\n<p>Do you really think BMW had to try to trick Google into ranking them high?  If they can&#8217;t legitimately be the number one resource for BMW information, then something is seriously wrong. Was it an intentional deception attempt put forth by their in-house marketing team?  Or do you think they were just led astray by a bad SEO company looking for short term gains, which would be my guess? Either way, there&#8217;s really no excuse for this, and I wonder how many people will get fired!<\/p>\n<p>For the details on exactly what happened and how to BMW, here&#8217;s the link to the story, right from Matt Cutts at Google&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/ramping-up-on-international-webspam\/\">Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO \u00bb Ramping up on international webspam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s the best example I&#8217;ve seen in a long time&#8230; This past week, BMW got removed from the Google search engine results in Germany. Why? Because they were showing Google one thing, and the public something else, which violates Google&#8217;s Terms of Service agreement. 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