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SPAM Attacks Target Ford & Nissan Google Searches
By: Matthew Elshaw 2009-04-20 Google has suffered a major Blackhat SPAM attack, specifically targeting searches of Ford and Nissan parts. Security firm PandaLabs has... ...identified over 1 million SPAM links used to trick searchers into installing fake security software. The scam works like this:
Just take a look at these search results below:
There are hundreds of thousands of potential searches which may be showing these results which becomes a major problem for Google. To their credit, they have now begun marketing some of these pages as malware, but a number of them still remain undetected. My guess is that because these are such niche search terms, its easy for these spammers to attain top listings simply by optimizing their Title tag and writing a small amount of content. By using this strategy across potentially millions of search term variations, they have flooded Google with SPAM links. This is one of the largest Blackhat SPAM attacks Ive seen in a while, lets hope Google can keep on top of these tricks and prevent them in the future. CommentsTag: Google, Nissan, SEO Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Have a bookmark! -
About the Author: Matt is a marketing professional at ineedhits.com, an international search marketing firm. Matt's passion for online marketing began at university and has proved invaluable in steering product development and marketing initiatives at the company. Matt is a regular contributor to the ineedhits search marketing blog. |
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