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<h2 id="counter-seo-schemes">Counter SEO schemes</h2>
<p>In one <a href="/facts/Search_engine_optimization/RNzIbb62">SEO</a> spamming technique, companies paid to have their site listed in the HTML code of a free hit counter. When a webmaster put it on their page, a small link appeared at the bottom, providing a way for sites to artificially accumulate inbound links. This was often done by sites in very competitive industries like online gambling. In 2008, <a href="/facts/Google/GT9Sugza">Google</a> removed a number of high-ranking <a href="/facts/Mesothelioma/KmqMKqld">mesothelioma</a> sites that had been using counters from the top results.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Matt Cutts Interviewed by Eric Enge". June 16, 2008. Archived from the original on July 22, 2008. <a href="https://blogs.perficient.com/2008/06/16/matt-cutts-interviewed-by-eric-enge/" target="_blank">https://blogs.perficient.com/2008/06/16/matt-cutts-interviewed-by-eric-enge/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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