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Black Hat/White Hat: Negative SEO
Intro to Negative SEO
• Penalizing your opponents• Not talked about enough
Analogies
Jim: 10 race carsGarret: 10 houses on a blockGarret: Worse than a hackCade: Like not buying the full page adFlyers for painter
Business Disruption
Hacking is short-term
SERPs are longterm
Ethics & Morality
In war, are all bets off?
Do you have different rules when you are under attack?
Yesterday’s guidelines are today’s penalties
Legality
FraudSlander/LibelTortious Interference?
1st amendment?digital picket sign
Proof?Are these bad links?!Can you sue Google to take you from page 1?Who are the expert witnesses?
Anchortext
- Heavy focus / keywords- Bad words- Bad targets
- Defense: Monitor & Disavow(Monitor with Google alerts, yahoo alerts, mention.com, monitorbacklinks.com)
Known Link Networks
- Text Link Ads- Link Worth- Intellinks- Link Vehicle- Buildmyrank.com
- Defense: Monitor & Disavow
Link removal attack
- Contact webmasters of authority sites- Angry, Threaten legal action- Fake Link Removal Service
- Defense: RelationshipsMonitorbacklinks.com
302 redirects
- URL shorteners: tinyurl- Offsite linking- (old msn bowling technique)
- Defense: Authority(Monitor with Moz)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-manual-action-302-links-18727.html
DNS(A records) of banned sites
- Get deindexed- DNS attack- Free DNS- Cade: Social engineering / domain hijacking- Garret: hotmail lost
- Defense: Authority
Google suggest reputation
- Use proxies for volume- Randomize user agents- Mechanical Turk
- Defense: Strength & variety of suggestions
Duplicate content attack
- CGI proxies- Parameters- Cross domain canonicals- Inbound links
- Defense: Canonical tags, Search Friendly URLsMonitor with copyscape.com
Email attack
- Black list / DNSBL- Unsubscribe- From- We buy/sell links (send to Google!)
- Defense?
Email attack
Google / Yelp Review attack
- Manual library / coffeeshop- Build trusted profiles- Mix with Reddit reputation attack
- Defense: Build profiles proactivelyRequest removal of bad reviews (never hurts)
Map attack
- NAP citation confusion attack- Claim & close
- Defense: Claim & build citations
Server DDOS attack
- Hackerslist.com- $300 xbox hackers- Report site as down
- Defense: CloudflareMonitor uptime with pingdom.com
Ripoff reputation sites
- Inbound links, tier 3- Get good reviews ranked on a bad site
- Ripoffreport, scamclub, complaintsboard
- Defense?
Badware reputation attack
- Macafee, webroot, et al
- Defense: Monitor & resubmit
Content Marketing For Evil
- Slideshare, at al
- Defense: Claim your branded properties
DMCA complaints
- google- host- Registrar- Trademarked domains
- Defense: Relationships, Lawyers
Reddit reputation attack
- Austin- LGBT- Use viral petitions, get them ranked!
- Defense: Build your brand/culture now.
Comments / html injection
- no index (reputation.com)- canonicals,- infecting a site with display messages like
‘This site may harm your computer’
- Defense: Secure programming, updates
Outright illegal hacking
- WMT & reinclusion requests, change address, deindexation
- Passwords- Insecure site/ CMS/ plugin
- Defense: Security, updates, passwords
Facebook Page
- - Get fake users- - Report
- Defense: Good numbers of real users
Business disruption
- Job listings- Online resumes- Hire staff away
- Defense: Trust