Iberdrola configured the website of its regulated gas supplier so that its TUR r

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This winter's fashion in the energy market for retailers is clear: change the gas rate to the TUR . From here we have also joined the call for consumers to do so , since the rates are much cheaper than in the free market.

However, a couple of days ago controversy arose because Iberdrola has removed the company Curenergía from Google , which markets the famous TUR rate and therefore could only be found by directly entering its web address in the browser.


The discovery of Iberdrola's "trick" with Curenergía
The lawyer Daniel Parra discovered it yesterday and put up a very explanatory Twitter thread, in which he points out that recently the Curenergía website did not appear on Google due to a recent chang  India Email List  e to the source code of its page that expressly requested not to be indexed in search engines. .



Websites have a tool to avoid being indexed in search engines , the "noindex" tag, which, when read by the search engine robots that continually scan the websites, stops showing them in their search results. Normally it is little used, and I would almost say never in the case of companies that what they want is to be found easily.

Indeed we have verified that through Archive.org that the "noindex" label was not previously there, then they put it, and due to the controversy and the success of the Twitter thread in which what was happening was explained, it has been changed again and the Curenergía website is again indexed in Google and other search engines .

The problems with registering with the TUR rate
All this comes when the marketers of last resort complain that they have an avalanche of additions to the TUR rate that they are not able to handle. But consumer associations indicate that these companies are creating obstacles to hiring .

The truth is that these companies are not interested in contracting this rate. Although the Government is generating a deficit that will have to be paid , the truth is that it is not known when or how and it may take time for companies, which are selling gas at a loss at this time, to recover the money.

Therefore, although Iberdrola refuses to give explanations for this disappearance of Curenergía from Google , it seems difficult that it was a webmaster's error.