TIMMGuru » active8 http://www.timmguru.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:34:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Safra, Hitachi & Mapletree Websites Screwed up by Active8 http://www.timmguru.com/safra-hitachi-mapletree-active8.html http://www.timmguru.com/safra-hitachi-mapletree-active8.html#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:40:55 +0000 TIMMGuru http://www.timmguru.com/?p=613 I can’t help it but to use very very strong words to show my anger with such unscrupulous, deceitful and devious Singapore web design company in the pursuit of search engine ranking for the keywords web design and content management system using black-hat SEO tricks.

Such unethical practice will damage the web design industry in Singapore.

The Singapore brand is at stake and could be tarnished by such an errant web design company.

The Japanese MNC Hitachi in Singapore would be jumping mad when they discovered the hidden links planted in many of their websites across Asia by their web designer, Active8.

Even Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, a $5.6 billion company, and Singapore Armed Forces’ SAFRA fell prey to the ploy by Active8, so there could be many more victims which we didn’t know.

SAFRA.SG

The web design company added a hidden link to point back to their own website using <span style=”display:hidden”> to hide the link so that it will not display when you view it with a browser such as Internet Explorer. In order to see the offending link, you have use the view source function.

Here’s is a screenshot of the HTML source code of SAFRA homepage.

Safra.sg HTML source

If your client did not give you the permission to insert your “Web Design and Content Management System (CMS) powered by Active8″ then you should not use hidden link to trick your client.

Here’s a screen shot of Google’s cache text only version of the web page.

safra google cache text version

And this web design company added the hidden links not only the main landing page but into many other pages of Safra.sg site.

Click here to view full size screen shot

Hitachi Consumer – Hitach Singapore, Hitachi Philippines & Hitachi Vietnam

Do you think Hitachi will ever allow a H2 link with anchor text such as “Web Design and Content Management System” placed right at the top of the HTML source page next to the <body> tag!?

Here’s the screen shot of the HTML source of www.hitachiconsumer.com

Hitachi Consumer with Active8.com.sg link in H2

And Active8.com.sg also added their links to

HTML Source Codes Screen Shots

Hitachi Singapore link to Active8.com.sg in H2


Hitachi Philippines with link to Active8.com.sg in H2


Hitachi Vietnam link to active8 in H2

Again, the web design company added their own links to many other pages of Hitachi Home Electronics website.

Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd

With Mapletree Singapore website, Active8 got even more audacious – link to their own website with achor text “Web Design” and “Content Management System (CMS)” in H1 tag.

Mapletree Singapore link to Active8.com.sg in H1 tag

And here’s the screen shot of Google’s cache text only version.

Mapletre Singapore displayed in Google's Cache Text Only Version

But for Mapletree Singapore website, Active8 made a typo in all their client’s pages – they forgot to use the “http://” in the anchor link.

I guess the thief was in a hurry!

Do you know of any other websites being screwed by their web designer?

Expose them! Leave a comment below.

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