Hackers Forcing Sites to Cloak Search Engines with Link Spam

David Jones from PR Works is probably wondering why he gets no love from Google. Maybe he even did a site: search on the Big G and discovered that his site has been banned. If so, he’s probably wondering why.

I don’t know Mr. Jones. He seems like a nice enough guy with some smart things to say about PR in Canada. I hope he finds this article and sorts out this rather nasty situation he has. If not, at least we can use it as a learning tool later on in this article.

Let’s pretend I do SEO for Twitter and am trying to talk management into letting me nofollow the profile links. Management says “NO, we’ve checked hundreds of profile links and none of them were spammy” so I do what any logical SEO would do and perform a linkfromdomain search on MSN so I can prove that, indeed, there are over 2,000 links FROM Twitter pointing TO pages about Viagra.
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