Tag Archives: link spam

Hidden Quantcast links on Digg.com

By richardbaxterseo | Published November 11, 2008

I was playing around with the Google cached version of Digg.com’s homepage when I found this:

quantcast link on Digg homepage

Of course, that link doesn’t show in the full site design, so I decided to Digg (excuse the pun) a little deeper and take a look at the code:

quantcast code

Looks like the “href=” lurking in the <noscript> tag is up to no good. It’s the 1 pixel tracking gif’s alt tag showing as a link in the Google cached version of the page. Hmm.. Does Google think this is a juice passing link? I did a quick query and got this page:

backlinks in Google showing digg result  Read the full post...

Using Bebo profiles and comment spam to rank for “Cheap Airlines”

By richardbaxterseo | Published September 10, 2008

It looks like it’s quite easy to get a Bebo profile indexed and ranking in Google.co.uk for reasonably competitive terms like “Cheap Airlines” – even after all the talk from Google on comment and forum spam!

Check out these results:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB268GB271&q=cheap+airlines&btnG=Search&meta=

Clearly position 4 in the organic rankings is unlikely to deliver information on cheap airlines. In fact, the profile links to a made for adsense site promoting adult dating and all kinds of other junk.

How have they done this? Over 1500 forum and blog spam links! Here’s the link to Yahoo’s site explorer results:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch;_ylt=AvolUUK9DMoEUBsVyLMCm4nbl8kF?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bebo.com%2FCheapA45&bwm=i&bwmo=  Read the full post...