The Angry Web Designer

After reading Teifion’s post on SEOMoz, Hiding from your competitors, it got me thinking, what else could you do to screw over your competition?

So let’s set the stage. You’re awesome; your competition sucks (this is accurate right?). By hiding your delicious code from these evil blood suckers, you can gain an advantage over their mediocre abilities. Meanwhile, they can’t hijack your awesome skills.

Teifion makes some wonderful suggestions, you can;

1. Redirect your competitors, based on their IP address (read Hiding from your competitors to learn Teifion’s suggestion on how to get their IP address).
2. Add a touch of remembrance - basically show them your site from 10 years ago. We all have that monstrous “first site” zipped up somewhere; admit it, we all hold on to old crap ;).
3. Really be devious - This is my favorite part! Teifion suggests you break all the links on your redirect site, add tons of slow loading images and scripts and make the experience down right painful for anyone to view the site. Lovely!

This all got me thinking, what other things could you do in order to make you competition believe you’re more clueless than they are?

1. Alert “Welcome to the of our site” - on every page …
2. Disable the browser back button
3. Create navigation links (i.e. About Us, Contant Us) that actually are actually PDF downloads
4. Make links “blink” on hover, or disappear completely
5. target=”blank” - everywhere
6. Place google adwords all over your pages
7. Start all your documents at the body tag

Have fun!!!