Today we are not going to explore malware or any other overtly malicious traffic. Instead this post is a warning about dishonest marketing tactics used by services claiming to improve your website traffic or Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We recently received a report from one our clients claiming that their website was experiencing a DistributedRead […]
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Analyzing Proxy Based Spam Networks
We are no strangers to Blackhat SEO techniques, we’ve actually spent a great deal of time working and sharing various bits of information related to Blackhat SEO techniques over the years. What we haven’t shared, however, is the idea of Proxy-based Spam Networks (PSN). It’s not because it wasn’t interesting, it’s just not something we’d seenRead […]
How to Get Your Blog Post on the First Page of Google
“We should rename SEO indicate relevance,” says Andy @Crestodia, the content chemist.” The article below is an interview with Andy Crestodina. He is the Strategic Director for Orbit and he has provided web strategy advice to more than 1000 businesses over the last 12 years. Andy loves to teach web marketing, both as a public […]
RSS Reveals Malware Injections
There are multiple different ways to detect invisible malware on a website: You can scrutinize the HTML code of web pages. Use external scanners like SiteCheck or UnmaskParasites. Get alerts from anti-viruses or search engines (both in search results and via their Webmaster Tools). Try to open web pages with different User-Agents and check for […]
Combat Blackhat SEO Infections with SEO Insights
Blackhat SEO spam is the plague of the internet, and the big search engines take it seriously. One of the worst spam tactics on the internet is becoming more common every day: innocent websites are hacked, and their best pages begin linking to spam. These Blackhat SEO spam tactics are fighting for expensive, high-competition keywords […]
Spotting Malicious Injections in Otherwise Benign Code
Being able to spot suspicious code, and then determine whether it is benign or malicious is a very important skill for a security researcher. Every day we scan through megabytes of HTML, JS and PHP. It’s quite easy to miss something bad, especially when it doesn’t visually stick out and follows patterns of a legitimate […]
Not Just Pills or Payday Loans, It’s Essay SEO SPAM!
Remember back in school or college when you had to write pages and pages of long essays, but had no time to write them? Or maybe you were just too lazy? Yeah, good times. Well, it seems like some companies are trying to end this problem. They are offering services where clients pay them to […]
App: Clearspike automates search engine optimization
You care about your website, and you want it to be found. For many visitors, finding your website starts with search engines. Together, Google, Bing, Baidu and others are huge sources of traffic for every website. The extra speed and security CloudFlare delivers are helpful for search engine ranking, but there are many other factors, […]
SEO and your website
*We get a lot of questions from our customers about CloudFlare and how we impact SEO. So when SEO.com signed up for CloudFlare, I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to an expert to get the scoop on all things SEO. I was fortunate enough to connect with Derek Perkins, Vice President […]
