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This post is from 2011. I can't remember any result in the past three years that used this trick, which makes me suspect that Google has fixed the issue. Still,

by ggreer 13y ago

This post is from 2011. I can't remember any result in the past three years that used this trick, which makes me suspect that Google has fixed the issue. Still, it'd be nice to know more. I haven't found any posts on this topic besides the one already linked to.

adamlj 13y ago
I'm not sure Google is actively punishing this strategy but the text doesn't look good at all in the SERP. The title of the page is displayed as "Ｕｎｉｃｏｄｅ－Ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ－Ｚｅｉｃｈｅｎ" [0] [0] https://google.com/search?q=site:linkstrasse.de https://google.com/search?q=site:linkstrasse.de
jrabone 13y ago
Google might have fixed it but Facebook haven't - the sidebar on the desktop site is full off bottom-feeder adverts for weight loss, hot dates etc. using non ASCII lookalike glyphs (usually accents or composing diacritics). I wonder if they are working around some Facebook ban on certain ads? Spammers are still using this trick in email (usually subject lines) - I actually started writing a decomposer / normaliser plugin for SpamAssassin, then realised it was cheaper to just penalise Unicode-encoded subjects. This is why we can't have nice things.
vog 13y ago
> which makes me suspect that Google has fixed the issue It would be interesting to know if Google is actively punishing such sites (low page rank, or not showing those at all), as it does with many other nasty SEO tricks.
- andmarios 13y ago
  I think these sites are punishing themselves. Using this trick would repulse more visitors than it would attract.
Jamie452 13y ago
I'm confused how this trick can benefit SEO?
- chrisfarms 13y ago
  It wouldn't have done anything for ranking ... but I guess the idea was to increase click's the same way people used to love a good... `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· My Homepage `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· ..type <title> banner to get attension.

by ggreer 13y ago

adamlj 13y ago

I'm not sure Google is actively punishing this strategy but the text doesn't look good at all in the SERP. The title of the page is displayed as "Ｕｎｉｃｏｄｅ－Ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ－Ｚｅｉｃｈｅｎ" [0] [0] https://google.com/search?q=site:linkstrasse.de https://google.com/search?q=site:linkstrasse.de

jrabone 13y ago

Google might have fixed it but Facebook haven't - the sidebar on the desktop site is full off bottom-feeder adverts for weight loss, hot dates etc. using non ASCII lookalike glyphs (usually accents or composing diacritics). I wonder if they are working around some Facebook ban on certain ads? Spammers are still using this trick in email (usually subject lines) - I actually started writing a decomposer / normaliser plugin for SpamAssassin, then realised it was cheaper to just penalise Unicode-encoded subjects. This is why we can't have nice things.

vog 13y ago

> which makes me suspect that Google has fixed the issue It would be interesting to know if Google is actively punishing such sites (low page rank, or not showing those at all), as it does with many other nasty SEO tricks.

andmarios 13y ago
I think these sites are punishing themselves. Using this trick would repulse more visitors than it would attract.

Jamie452 13y ago

I'm confused how this trick can benefit SEO?

chrisfarms 13y ago
It wouldn't have done anything for ranking ... but I guess the idea was to increase click's the same way people used to love a good... `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· My Homepage `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· ..type <title> banner to get attension.