Inside a Hacked SEO Backlink Network
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I know a lot of people in this crowd probably run across these situations all the time but a lot of people don't realize why exactly their sites got hacked and what the purpose is. Thank you so much again for reading and checking this out.
but thinking they know when a server if hacked is giving them too much credit. they may know when it's part of a widely know black link network. in fact, most search engines seems to know that.
reason your links are for Japanese sites is because there everyone uses the cellphone operator default search, which is crappy, but still better than Google for native language. they may be slower to react or worse at detecting black link networks.
disclaimer: i work for one of the biggest western search sites in Japan. but this is my opinion.
They even warn you, I've seen an interstitial popup (from google) before for one of my sites that was compromised.
I'm assuming you read Japanese, anything else notable?
I think google has taken steps to stop this from an algorithm stand point but really I think most of there attempts are more marketing based. IE trying to scare people into not doing it anymore.
It also doesn't take exploiting sites to do it. You can just buy some aged domains and throw up wordpress.
The efficacy of this hack is nil as the "money domains" that were profiting from these backlinks had little domain authority or relevant traffic according to the author's article.
The only only way that linking strategies are viable anymore are gaining links from domains with authority or huge numbers of links.
Maybe if the hacker would have created tens of thousands of back links from vulnerable fashion blogs (same category of site as the money sites) they would've gotten some SEO juice.
If I'm on page 2 of a search and I want to get into that precious top 10 I can spam the site which is ranking above me until I'm there. Or I can threaten to do a really shitty job trying to blackhat SEO optimize someones site unless they pay me $x.
We often get abuse@ emails from people who have their link spammed on one of our clients domains and want it removed. We just link them to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main and wish them luck. In some cases these people paid for that 'service' in the past and now regret it.