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This is quite the HN title/link bait (currently: "3 Lines of Code to Rank a Website to 1# on Google"). The real title of the article is "Pay Day Loan Rankings:
by bluetidepro 14y ago
This is quite the HN title/link bait (currently: "3 Lines of Code to Rank a Website to 1# on Google"). The real title of the article is "Pay Day Loan Rankings: The shady tale of Joomla hacks and Drupal leaks". The article is about how a Joomla plugin added malicious code to their plugins to get referral links via spam on websites.
- jaequery 14y agoNo, this method actually applies to all languages and all platforms with the same given tactics. Anything with an open ecosystem of plugin/themes where other users can download will be affected. I've seem some similar activity in wordpress themes a while back. And if the results are as good as this post says, this kind of activity will only keep growing.
- Doyley 14y agoThe results are exactly as reported. The ones published are from last week, but today the top 20 results are still dominated by websites doing the same.