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> This bug could have been exploited for millions of dollars. Quite possibly exploited for non-savvy website owners. Savvy owners would be checking their ranki
by cheez 15y ago
> This bug could have been exploited for millions of dollars.
Quite possibly exploited for non-savvy website owners. Savvy owners would be checking their ranking regularly and noticing it disappear one day.
Anyone who ranks highly for lucrative keywords and does not check their ranking is asking to lose it, whether ethically or otherwise.
So I don't think it would have been exploited for the millions you think, but possibly a good bit of money.
- kragen 15y ago> Anyone who ranks highly for lucrative keywords and does not check their ranking is asking to lose it, whether ethically or otherwise. Your ranking is not your responsibility as a webmaster. It's Google's responsibility to its users to rank good answers highly.
- Hisoka 15y agoIt is your responsibility as someone doing business to check up on it, and proactively take action if/when rankings go down. To not do so makes no business sense. Of course, if you're just a casual blogger who doesn't care about SEO, it doesn't matter. But if you do care, not checking is foolish
- a5seo 15y agoBy that logic, your comment being understood isn't your responsibility, it's the responsibility of your reader.
- fhars 15y agoThen just run your attack on the day of a big algorithm or index update when it will be drowned by the usual "google made my children starve" noise.
- cheez 15y agoBrillant!
- danneu 15y agoIt's not like savvy website owners have portals into the elusive world of WTF Is Happening To My SERP Rank? Nor do savvy website owners have magical avenues to rectify such events. In other words, I'm not confident in the speed you can get Google to remedy an event where your website disappears from the results.