| URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 4/30/12 4:48 AM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: We are all going to have to implement compliance to the EU privacy laws soon in the UK. We do not want our compliance window to be listed in Google or any other search engine as it have nothing to |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 4/30/12 11:16 AM | My answer would be if all EU sites had a compliance notice on then google would learn to ignore it and there would be tons of others hoping to rank for compliance terms to sell their wares. |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | I know nothing | 4/30/12 11:21 AM | I've built a script that does not interfere with a bot, nor is it cached for our clients websites. It all depends when you are telling the viewer of your privacy terms, it should be before a cookie is loaded to their machine. |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/1/12 3:52 AM | Thanks for your reply, I would certainly like to hear from John Mu on this subject or another Google Employee, as it is a matter of some urgency. You see, I'm not sure our customers would be very happy to wait until Google sort out a reso |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Phil Payne | 5/1/12 4:03 AM | This is very similar to the US problem where alcohol manufacturers have to enquire about the user's age. E.g. http://www.tanqueray.com/ |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 5/1/12 4:06 AM | I am not sure that is it a matter of urgency, the rumblings regarding EU compliance have been around for a good while now. |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/1/12 10:51 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | JohnMu | 5/4/12 1:08 AM | Hi! I'm not aware of the detailed legal issues around this warning, and I can't give you advice regarding how you would need to implement this from a legal point of view. That said, I can give you some general pointers regarding interstitials and si |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Chris Hunt | 5/4/12 7:14 AM | I think I'd need a much better reason than this to take the risk of annoying Google. After all, who's going to be searching for compliance notice text? And if they are, and they find your clients' site, so what? SEO is not a zero-sum game. The fact t |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/20/12 10:31 PM | Hi Chris, I think you missed the point, with so many of the same words used on every single webpage, which has nothing to do with our clients business, Google may get to thinking the actual business content is less relevant than the Warning, Disclaim |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/20/12 10:47 PM | Hi John,Thank you for your comments, we have implemented this solution on several of our sites already and have been rolling it out for 3 to 4 weeks now. We had asked the ICO for approval before the rollout date, but they will not be offering any app |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/29/12 6:00 AM | UPDATE:- Google Analytics are now pointless due to everyone clicking NO to cookies. I will be removing all of ours within the next few months, just in case Google do take analytics data into account in ranking websites, and they mistakenly misinterpr |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 5/29/12 8:32 AM | What is your site ? For many/(most?) a 'compliance window' is not needed. |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/30/12 3:29 AM | Squibble said ~ "What is your site ? For many/(most?) a 'compliance window' is not needed." I'm not sure where you are getting your information from, but I would advise reading the EU Privacy Laws again and even getting legal advice if you did not un |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 5/30/12 3:32 AM | Thanks, but I do understand. I am quite happy to accept the advice of ICO myself. |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/30/12 5:16 AM | Squibble said "Thanks, but I do understand. I am quite happy to accept the advice of ICO myself. " Are you EU based or US (re your hosting). If you are an individual or business from EU then you have to comply even if hosted outside of EU. Re your w |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/30/12 5:24 AM | http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1208/contents/made |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 5/30/12 5:43 AM | I dont think I am too interesting in a debate on the subject. I posted to see whether you were aware that there is plenty of information on the ICO website where users can read the government guidance for themselves and avoid both over and under inte |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/30/12 6:57 AM | Yes I agree with you that the ICO website should be checked out, by everyone in the UK, because you can assume that the ICO must be fully compliant. But their compliance is different from the implied consent compliance BT have adopted? Who is right a |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 5/30/12 7:16 AM | The law is clear to see, those that offer updated compliance are doing so in the interest of their customers and more importantly the visitors who believe website owners are lawful. Wake up and smell the coffee, its over a year old for godsake... Dow |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 6/6/12 12:25 AM | The UK ICO demonstrates how to perform a U-turn only 24 hours prior to the law coming into force in the UK. The ICO did its U-TURN only hours before enforcing the law on the 26th May 2012, changing its previous policy which advised against using "Imp |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 6/13/12 10:17 PM | Cookie Opt in Policy implementation proves that visitors do not trust any businesses. Everyone opts out when given the opportunity, no wonder the ICO has allowed implied consent. Google Analytics is now on the scrap heap, with only a fraction of visi |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 6/15/12 1:54 AM | Link for anyone stumbling on this thread and wanting to read more > http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2184609/Cookie-Crunch-Complying-with-the-EU-ePrivacy-Directive-in-the-UK |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 6/15/12 10:55 PM | Don't bother reading Squibbles article, everything the article has mentioned is confirmed here and way before their article. The last minute change by the ICO allowing UK businesses to use Implied Consent will mean that you can display a warning noti |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 6/16/12 3:04 AM | The article links off to different sources and users may want to read an unbiased view. |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 6/23/12 10:52 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | ѕquibble | 6/24/12 3:11 AM | |
| Re: URGENT! Legal Cloaking vs ranked listing for none relevant wording ! | Go-Tell-The-Spartans | 6/24/12 8:45 AM |