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Hackers Forcing Sites to Cloak Search Engines with Link Spam
SEO News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Published: Mar 25, 2008 - 09:12 am
Story Found By: annie7 1418 Days ago
Category: SEO
Always be on the lookout for something fishy. As SEO gets more competitive, cloaking will be more and more sophisticated. A strange search result; an odd referral keyword; off-topic adsense ads; being banned… these are all things that may tip you off.
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from everett 1418 Days ago #
Votes: 2

This is probably nothing new for most SEOs who have been paying attention to spam over the last couple of years. I wrote it more as a warning to people who think that just because they don’t see any spam on a page they’re linking to doesn’t mean that the search engines don’t see it. As much as I LOVE profile sites that allow followable links - we’re going to be nofollowing our outbound profile links for this very reason. :-(

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1418 Days ago #
Votes: 4

Cloaking definitely will be getting more sophisticated. I know some of my own experiments, and those of people who are admittadly my superiors(perk and fanto) have some things in the work that will absolutely blow modern day cloaking away.

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from DianeV 1418 Days ago #
Votes: 1

Excellent detective work.

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