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October 7, 2005
Beware Hosting Providers Inserting Links Into Your Content
Rogue host changing customers' websites over at SEO Forum is an interesting read and warning to those to watch their hosting service. What's PhilC describes there is a hosting company that was unbeknownst to clients was apparently inserting links at the bottom of client pages to benefit the host. The screenshots here tell the tale much better. Apparently, the tactic was supposed to be stopped but started again.
Moral for anyone? Look at the cached pages you have in the major search engines. They'll show you what the search engine spider saw -- and any links that you might not realized were cloaked without permission to feed to the spiders.
Want to discuss? Visit our forum thread, Obnoxious cloaking scam.
Posted by Danny Sullivan on October 7, 2005 8:43 AM
