From the Black Hats

Just been reading an interesting post about getting gov sites to recommend and link to your sites.

SEObook also covers the topic.

Anyway the end result is anybody can create links like this:
http://www.ready.gov/america/redirect.html?url=http://www.pyramidlinking.com

 

Similarly, the BBC has an open redirect loophole via which you can obfuscate spam links. osCommerce had a similar issue but was plugged a couple of months back.

 

That is pretty cool. Until Google gets it, of course. Not very cool after that.

 

TOPS is right.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/search/int/allbbc/allbbc/allbbc/spammer/-/http://www.google.com/

 

LOL! Do you think we could get Google to deindex itself?

 

Checking the source it's not a real link, I wouldn't waste your time.

 

Thats why I was happy to post it with my url in

What about things like the frameset issue and the BBC one? Do they have an effect?

 

Its probably a good way to trick someone naive into believing that a gov site links to you and thus give your site more credibility in their eyes. Other than that, its hardly an SEO "tactic"

 

Apparently somebody got a good rank for v1agra using this.

 

Worthless IMHO.

 

You can redirect through Google as well

 

the framset exploit does seem to work sometimes and sometimes it doesnt.

You can take it a step further and use a bit of html injection to get static urls from high authority sites. this used to work well around september and november of last year but google seems to have got better a picking it up.

Me personal favourite link exploit is this one, providing a fully indexable link from nasa.gov

http://search.nasa.gov/nasasearch/s...ww.digitalpoint.com>Link+to+digital+point</a>

 

Holy poo on a stick!

<A HREF='/nasasearch/search/search.jsp?nasaInclude=%2522%253C%252-input%253E%3C%2Fa%3E%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E%3Ca+href%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalpoint.com%3ELink+to+digital+point%3C%2Fa%3E&'>%22%3C%<b><i>2-input</i></b>%3E</a><br><br><br><a href=http://www.digitalpoint.com>Link to digital point</a></A><BR>

Code (markup):

From the source of that page.

 

EDIT i see what you mean the '<' characters are converted to &lt in the actual source

there are other ones

http://search.ur.msstate.edu/cgi-bi...ww.digitalpoint.com>link to digital point</a>

 

OK, anyone care to take a guess what happens if we throw some coop weight at these fake pages with good anchor text? Anyone got a test site they want to use?

 

i doubt they would get indexed properly, i did a few tests recently and google hasn't picked them up yet.

if a black hat tells you something you can gaurantee that it has already been done to death and probably no longer works.

 

i'm fairly sure i called out the viagra exploits here on the 19th a day before seoblackhat did, maybe he is a DP reader

 

nice! well the problem sometimes is if your site is not related with those sites so i can't try it for now...