02.13.08
Underhanded SEO tricks
I’ve been doing a lot of reading of late on “Black Hat SEO”, which is basically search engine optimization that doesn’t play by search engines rules. This includes more grey area things, like scraping massive amounts of content from other sites, and re-optimizing with new keywords, to more nefarious things like blog spam. A lot of things these Black Hats are just plain creative. One such thing is the using a forged referrer back to your website on all websites you visit. ( See Fake Your Referer, Get More Traffic ) I’m testing this now, so if you got here by finding my site in your logs, let me know!
SlightlyShadySEO said,
February 19, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Hey
Thanks for the mention. Sure enough, I got here by finding you in my logs.
Your blog doesn’t appear to submit trackbacks though; I never got one from your site. You should really look into that.
SlightlyShadySEO said,
February 20, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hmm. Yeah, you caught me at a bad time(I was really tired). Not my link (cakes just sent me the issue)
You came in on a referer though? Not how that works.
Either way, feel free to torch both comments.