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I call it the negative SEO bomb. Gain control of a bunch of sites that are hosting viruses, autodownloading exe's, or otherwise performing unlawful hacks on th
by rms 16y ago
I call it the negative SEO bomb.
Gain control of a bunch of sites that are hosting viruses, autodownloading exe's, or otherwise performing unlawful hacks on the user. Then start linking to all of the people who rank higher than you. You could pick off all of your pagerank competitors one by one.
(this is theoretical, but I don't see why it wouldn't work in a probabilistic sense)
- tapp 16y agoIt's more popularly referred to as "Google bowling." A couple years back, Matt Cutts acknowledged that it was possible, though he also stated they have countermeasures making it very difficult to do in practice.