So you pay your $0.10$1.00 Adwords tithe, someone wanders in your online store, and then Google Related shows anyone with a Google Toolbar installed your competitors' products? Do they return the tithe if they wander out? Heck no — thought not! So if you haven't heard, let me explain what Google Related is.
Google Related is a pretty do-no-eviladware-like 'feature' of Google Toolbar that shows competitor products on your web site without your permission or consent. It actually modifies your web site's HTML and injects a bar with lots of competing content (and products) right in at the bottom of the page. Understandably, many of us are upset about this, as was one of our clients. Here's a spiffy screenshot of the competitors injected in one particular retailer:
In this case, luckily, they were the lowest price, but do they really want to rely on luck? Google doesn't make it trivial to disable with CSS deliberately, and other more straightforward attempts have ceased to work. So here is our jQuery-based solution. Just throw this JavaScript in your HEAD tag, and you'll be done. You'll need jQuery, but most of us have it installed already.
<!--Disable Google Related-->
<script type="text/javascript">
// (<a href="http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/google/how-to-disable-google-related-with-jquery-p859.html">http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/google/how-to-disable-google-related-with-jquery-p859.html</a>)
var cnt = 0;
var interval = 0;
var f = function () {
var css = {cssText:'display:none !important; visibility: hidden !important'};
var gr = $('iframe[src^="http://www.gstatic.com/webgps/grelated"]');
gr.css(css).prev('div').css(css);
if (++cnt > 5 || gr.length) clearInterval(interval);
};
f();
$(function () {
interval = setInterval(f, 500);
});
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This will cease to work in a few weeks. Our browser, free tools and toolbar must be able to rewrite your pages to allow suggestions and eventually Google ads in your pages.
Someone needs to sue Google over or file a complaint with the FTC you need to be able to add a optout tag
I am unable to get this to work. I tried it in the head and in the body.
FYI. This didn't work on my site. Although, I would still suggest that people give it a shot. Maybe it will work on yours. I suspect, that the reason none of these usual systems are working is because Google is loading this content from spiders that have already crawled the site and that the webpage data is already stored on Google servers. The popup's are part of the Google Toolbar code and is installed within the browser itself - so there is no way to actually shut it off from the website owners perspective. Anyway. This is just a guess. Regardless of how you look at it - the EVILNESS of this cannot be overstated. Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat@seobook | seo博客大全[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat | Infinite Backlinks Blog[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat | Aitir Lab[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat « Fast Ninja Blog by Freelanceful – Web Design | Coding | Freelancing[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat « Designs By Brian[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat « Seo Traffic « SEO Traffic[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat - SEO Promos[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...] Search Engine Optimization & Marketing » Blog Archive » Things Google Should Do: Recommendations From a Blackhat[...] advertiser worked so hard to attract and paid Google directly for. Man these guys are good…er…bad. I’m getting jealous here. This is like Goldman Sachs execs in the extreme north 1% making a ton [...]
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