This is the relatively easily executed version of negative SEO: it's hard to negatively affect the SEO of a site, but easy to bury it with dozens of crafted pag

This is the relatively easily executed version of negative SEO: it's hard to negatively affect the SEO of a site, but easy to bury it with dozens of crafted pages - whether to hide an unfavorable result, or to discredit a competitor. $10,000 a month seems like an absurd number, but "reputation management" is a big business (albeit very quietly executed) and getting content on sufficiently high pagerank sites can be expensive. If you look on sites like blackhatworld you'll find tons of people interested in services like this. Seems like the business is booming, too: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=reputation%20management%2Conline%20reputation%20management https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=reputation%20managem...