The malware SEO .cn attack, how did they do it

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by verbie, Nov 29, 2007.

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    Just thought it would be interesting with a discussion on how these .cn malware sites managed to get their good rankings.

    Not so anyone can do the same but because it tells us a lot about the algorithms used by Google and others from an SEO perspective.

    For those not familiar with it, read this article.

    I guess one thing we learned is that they did not have to use the keywords in their URLs :)
     
    verbie, Nov 29, 2007 IP
  2. sweetfunny

    sweetfunny Banned

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    It's been going on for quite some time, i won't say "how" they are doing it but i will say Google have their hands full with this mess. They are eliminating the malicious URL's, however from what i have studied it's still a manual process and Google don't have an algo implementation to solve it.
     
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  3. verbie

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    Seems like quite a mess. I'm not gonna post any of the search terms since I don't want anyone to click on those by mistake but the links are still out there in the SERP's for some keyphrases.
     
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    This is a major hole for all SE. TBH i'm not suprised something like this has happened, SEO is used for evil as well as good, it's like the force but a lot more boring.
     
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    This is nothing new, it's just becoming more widespread.
     
    astup1didiot, Nov 29, 2007 IP