Many people will do anything do get on Google’s first result page. That’s why some webmasters regularly come up with new spam methods to get on Google’s first result page.
Phillip Lenssen recently reported two new methods that might be used by some people to get top 10 listings on Google.
Spam trick 1: Get higher rankings in Google’s local results
It seems to help if the address of a business is close to the city center or the main station. If a business gets a post box close to these locations and submits that address to Google Maps, it will be listed higher in the local results on Google.
As the local results are usually displayed above the regular listings in Google, this could be a way to get many clicks.
Spam trick 2: Get higher rankings in Google’s regular results
This trick is somewhat hard to believe. It seems that some webmasters hire cheap Chinese workers to get higher rankings on Google. As strange as it sounds, these webmasters pay couriers on bikes to drive to various Internet cafes, search for their keywords and then click on the listing of the webmaster’s site.