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Blackhat SEO methods are often a bit fucking daft. So what's happening here could be one of two things: Link injection, where by spamming an endpoint with a U
by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Blackhat SEO methods are often a bit fucking daft.
So what's happening here could be one of two things:
Link injection, where by spamming an endpoint with a URL they hope the URL will end up indexed and displayed somewhere on the site, for a search engine to pick up later. Often with some keywords in the link text, etc. The idea is to boost pagerank.
The other is even sillier: they try search for their own sites a tonne on third party search things that probably query a "real" search engine, to try artificially boost the supposed popularity/keyword associations of their sites, boosting pagerank.
A lot of blackhat SEO stuff us bunkum and snake oil.
Every so often they figure out a working method to exploit search engines to boost pagerank, and then it gets fixed. But they never stop trying even the most obsolete methods as the automated scripts are what they have available.
- MandieD 4y agoOh, so that’s how a very niche amateur radio-related query can turn up a plausible-looking result in Google on a subdomain of some unrelated, not carefully-tended domain, but actually link to a page of spam.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoThe entire category of "blackhat" isn't going through a filter of "this makes no sense, so don't bother". The only place that filter exists is where people actually communicate openly about their strategies.
- BeFlatXIII 4y ago> But they never stop trying even the most obsolete methods as the automated scripts are what they have available. As described on the Security Now podcast, this is now part of "internet background radiation"