Black Hat SEO And Popular Search — The New Danger Zone

16th March, 2010 - Posted by admin -

Black hat SEO campaigns are notorious for mishandling search engines. There is a growing concern that these types of campaigns are leading web searchers to malicious sites with the intent to promote fake antivirus applications. A recent study by the network infrastructure company SonicWALL has highlighted a recent upswing within this frowned-upon activity, and the results are staggering.

According to their data, from March 3rd – March 9th “…more than 284 top search terms have been attacked by more than 6600 malicious URLS.” And that is just with Google. Top search terms are defined as terms that are getting the most traffic at any given moment. The ever popular Google Trends page displays these terms, and top news stories are usually the main focus of these terms.

SonicWALL also discovered that “…up to nine of the top 20 search terms are under attack at any one time.” Two examples here were searches for film producer “Elinor Burkett” and … [visit site to read more]

For more search marketing insights, visit Search Marketing Standard.

Black Hat SEO And Popular Search — The New Danger Zone

Posted on: March 16, 2010

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