Hi Dean

Could you not just use your FTP client (like Filezilla or Dreamweaver) to pull the entire site content down, save it locally, ready to upload later? Or do you not have FTP details of the sites you're taking over?

Sorry if I've miss understood the question

Heather

Welcome to the world of SEO!

I deal with this kind of thing on a daily basis. It's frustrating to say the least.

I think the most important thing for you to do, is stay white hat and don't be tempted to play them at their own game.

Go for quality every time. It may take longer, but that usually means you'll maintain your positions longer than the the sites using the short-term SPAM tactics.

Good Luck!

I would be interested to see whether anyone has done any experiments or had any experience of this effecting search engine positions.

I would say that as long as the H1 appears near the top of the page before any

oretc, so that the markup is correctly formatted as the W3C guidelines state, then it shouldn't really matter. But I could be wrong.

I would be interested to see whether anyone has done any experiments or had any experience of this effecting search engine positions.

I would say that as long as the H1 appears near the top of the page before any

oretc, so that the markup is correctly formatted as the W3C guidelines state, then it shouldn't really matter. But I could be wrong.

Hi Dean

Could you not just use your FTP client (like Filezilla or Dreamweaver) to pull the entire site content down, save it locally, ready to upload later? Or do you not have FTP details of the sites you're taking over?

Sorry if I've miss understood the question

Heather