Competitor website, how come they get away with it?

[PottyScotty]

Hi we have been looking at competitors websites do see how we can improve,  this website jumped out at me straight away as spammy gateway pages where 3 words was the only difference on all of the pages.  Why does google give them so much weight still and rank them so highly?  I thought this is what G was trying to avoid?  Am I missing something here in terms of great SEO opportunity? A checked for noindex or canonical and I cannot see any.  Love to hear some feedback. Cheers

[spencerhjustice]

You didn't look very hard for canonicals, because they're all using rel="canonical" tags back to http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/stag-weekends/edinburgh/

How did you find these pages?

It looks like they might just be ppc landing pages, which is why they are all variations of eachother or they might be old seo tactics that they just decided to consolidate via canonical tags.

They're actually going about that how they should be, which is why they are not being penalized whatsover.

You will also notice that for all of those keywords http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/stag-weekends/edinburgh/ is the only url that ranks.

[PottyScotty]

ha Spencer, what a muppet i was being, helps if i had used " after rel= it's easy to spot when you spell it right! lesson learned again....