Archive for April, 2007

Google’s Bad Idea - How to Report Paid Links

A quick heads up: over the weekend, Matt Cutts posted an article to his blog that outlines how people can report websites that they suspect of having purchased text links. Google doesn’t like companies that buy and sell links because it is “gaming” their PageRank “authority” structure. In the rash of responses Cutts received, the [...]

Parasite Hosting, GoogleWhacking for the Innocent

I’ve read a few passing references to parasite webhosting as exploitation of .org, .edu or even .gov sites as a bed of redirect and/or linkbuilding farms. Those redirects and link farms take advantage of those “authority” domains by linking to a site which, in turn, has authority imparted upon it. As we all [...]