{"id":2342,"date":"2007-12-08T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2007-12-08T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T15:58:22","slug":"want-to-bribe-your-way-to-the-top-of-the-google-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2342\/want-to-bribe-your-way-to-the-top-of-the-google-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to bribe your way to the top of the Google rankings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read biographies of great filmmakers, you&#8217;ll find they all started out like this: Pulling goofy impromptu stunts and committing them to film. Here are the boys from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reachd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reachd.com<\/a>, Vancouver SEO mechanics, trying to bribe Matt Cutts for a page one ranking:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vjYQ-ev3DKE&#38;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Reachd actually made more than a dozen serious films during their time at PubCon. You can find those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reachd.com\/ReachdTV.ubr\" target=\"_blank\">by clicking here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/technology\" rel=\"tag\">technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read biographies of great filmmakers, you&#8217;ll find they all started out like this: Pulling goofy impromptu stunts and committing them to film. Here are the boys from Reachd.com, Vancouver SEO mechanics, trying to bribe Matt Cutts for a page one ranking: Reachd actually made more than a dozen serious films during their time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":533,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/533\/for-sale-by-owner-sellers-can-help-move-real-estate-market-into-new-buyers-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":2342,"position":0},"title":"For-sale-by-owner sellers can help move real estate market into new buyers&#8217; world . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I gripe about the meager little 350 words I get in my column in the West Valley sections of the Arizona Republic. 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