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13 commentsTuesday, April 14, 2009

SEO Blackhatters Target Ford Via Google

1 million scareware links dominate search results

13 Comments

By whey protein isolate (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/11/2009 - 14:05

I have to agree with the

I have to agree with the comments made by other posters, I do not believe that leaving your site info in your comment is spammy or blackhat. As long as the comment is relevant to the discussion.

By SEO OPTIMIZATION (WPN reader) - Thu, 05/14/2009 - 22:43

White Hat Seo Optimization

We support for White Hat seo opmization only.

By SEO and SEM (WPN reader) - Wed, 04/22/2009 - 10:49

Why do they use blackhat?

Isn't whitehat SEO good enough? I really do not understand that.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Wed, 04/22/2009 - 09:20

why is Nissan a "Ford"?????

By Alex (WPN reader) - Wed, 04/22/2009 - 09:19

Do you seriously consider it hard to rank for a seven (eight) word search phrase???
"Diagram Of A 1998 Nissan Pathfinder Blower Motor" like it would be hard to rank for this? What a joke. How on earth did you even come to think to search for this diagram with such a long phrase?
GOSH. Your mates at pandasecurity must have paid you for this!
Even this page already rank nr 4 for the phrase "Diagram Of A 1998 Nissan Pathfinder Blower Motor" cause it is so damn easy to rank for it!
And your mates at pandasecurity.com rank no 1 for it.. "what a co-incidence".
HAA, do you believe this post was so serious for Google that they would have decided to make a fix. Let me laugh out loud!
Give me any indexed page on any url and I bet I find a 7..8 word long search phrase the site will rank for in the top 1. Most likely no 1 for 99% of all pages.
You must be a total novice to SEO if you find anything surprising in the results. I just wonder who on earth even bothers to "SEO" five pages for a search phrase that is unlikely to get any searches at all, unless that someone's friend made a post here on WebProNews about it.

You need no blackhat seo for to achieve the results mentioned above, but what's the point. You ain't going to sell a single "Diagram Of A 1998 Nissan Pathfinder Blower Motor" to anybody, nobody will search for it.
Next time make a post when a Blackhat SEO manages to rank no 1 for "Google" on Google.com, or just let us make it a bit easier try the simple phrase "Latest News"..

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/23/2009 - 09:44

LoL You Mad!

By Developer Chris (WPN reader) - Wed, 04/22/2009 - 04:33

I told them so

I reported this problem to google over 12 months ago. I believed they were actually hacked as the results were so different from the search query.

My first thought was that I had a virus and went to great lengths to find the culprit. in the end I only proved the fault was with googles actual results

Of course I emailed them with my findings and was dutifully ignored.

Personally I haven't had a recurrence of the problem. but that seems set to change if the article is accurate

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 04/19/2009 - 19:06

Nice site!

By Removal Companies (WPN reader) - Sat, 04/18/2009 - 15:19

Ultimately its poor

Ultimately its poor forum/website security, not really something Google should account for, their sites should just lose PR... making it their problem.

By iswebdesign (WPN reader) - Fri, 04/17/2009 - 04:27

Comments

I think it is acceptable to use comments to promote your own site - if that is actually relevant to the discussion, and it is not automated. The fact is that spammers don't care at all about the discussion, they will just bombard a website with irrelevant links which are not even posted by a human just software. I don't think that it is ever acceptable behaviour.

By Star Army Space Roleplay (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/16/2009 - 14:36

Leaving your website info on

Leaving your website info on a comment is not a "Black Hat" technique...comment boxes encourage it. I think as long as a comment is relevant to a discussion, it's alright to leave a link.

That said, spambots that leave thousands of random unrelated or gibberish comments are a problem that should be combated by building spam resistant websites that use tools like CAPTCHA codes and "Are you human?" type questions.

By Srividya (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/16/2009 - 00:04

Scareware-Threat to companies

Let me give you another example of a company targeted by SEO Black hatters.

A similar scam was running through pop-up ads a few months ago on a well known freelance site, Helium.com; one of their major advertisers had been targeted with the scareware.
But the community quickly rallied and the problem was summarily dealt with.

For Ford and Nissan, the problem showing up as deep as ten pages on the SERPs shows a much deeper problem.

Scareware, or rogueware, is an ad that pops up on a user’s computer warning that their PC is vulnerable to attack from malware, or stating that an intrusion attempt is in the process of being made. Users are encouraged to click on the link to purchase a protection system - which is in actuality the malware itself.

By Eric Link Directories (WPN reader) - Wed, 04/15/2009 - 05:56

Positive Use of Comments

Great example of successful black hat SEO attempts. If the spammers can use comments to rank their sites higher and higher in SERPS, why cant we use them to promote our very useful websites.