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January, 2006 marks our fourth year of supporting the Texas Saltwater Fishing Guide.

Google has removed traffic-power.com, a large Search Engine Optimization Company, for spamming

TSFGw welcomes Captain Randy Seidel

Steve Purcell

The New Year

The Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides web has always been about the saltwater fishing guides of the Texas Gulf Coast.  As we start our fourth year of support for these ardent preservationists, it is clear that monumental problems are looming for the guides, their business, and their way of life.  Last year, it was the sea grass issue in Redfish Bay.  This year, the main issue appears to be Red Snapper.  We'll keep you informed.

New Member

The Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides would like to welcome our newest member.  Captain Randy Seidel is a bay fishing guide out of Aransas Pass who offers fishing trips along the Coastal Bend from Rockport to Baffin Bay.  His web site is located at: http://www.seidelguideservice.com. 

Google Banishes Large SEO Company

The following is an excerpt from an article in Web Position, a search engine industry online magazine.  If you have had this company optimize your web site, then get your web master to break the links immediately. 

Google representative Matt Cutts has confirmed that Google has removed traffic-power.com and domains promoted by them from Google's index.

In September, 2005, the Wall Street Journal Online published an article describing a scenario that would be a nightmare for any online business: your web site suddenly disappears from both Google and Yahoo seemingly overnight. This is exactly what happened to many web sites owners who had hired Traffic-Power.com to perform search engine optimization for their site.

The problems started when the major search engines detected that Traffic-Power.com had been using illicit practices to optimize web sites. According to the Wall Street Journal article, they employed techniques like creating pages that are stuffed full of keywords (this is known as "spamming"), or even presenting content not really related to the site and then redirecting the visitor when the link is clicked (this is known as "cloaking"). We have been warning our readers against these practices for years.