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Google Baba Ki Jay Part 3

When a was a newbie web designer sooooo many years back, we used to be very excited when we counted so many 'hits' on our website. One of the first ever websites in India on trekking 'indiantreks.com' was made by me way back on 1998-99 when the Internet was so new. We used to do a lot of things to get in the top 10 in the search ranking, but at that time it used to be Yahoo and not Google. The spiders used by search engines used to primarily look at 3 things: 1. The keywords in the metatags 2. The text in your page 3. The number of backlinks We used many tricks to get into the top 10.... One was to have text and links in the same colour as that of the page. This kept the text hidden on the browser, but the spiders were fooled into thinking that the page had a lot of backlinks. Second was to spam the meta tags with lots and lots of keywords, again for the spiders to take notice I had paid Rs.3500/- to book the indiantreks domain, but as domains became chea