SEO Used In Massive Black Hat Redirect Malware Campaign by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, November 10, 2022 Hackers are using search engine optimization (SEO) to conduct a massive black hat campaign that compromises nearly 15,000 websites. The code redirects visitors to fake Q&A discussion forums. Ben Martin, security analyst at Sucuri, which initially spotted … Continue reading SEO Used In Massive Black Hat Redirect Malware Campaign
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Startup Uses Paid Search To Redirect Extremist Terms In Google To Counter Radicalism
Startup Uses Paid Search To Redirect Extremist Terms In Google, Counter Radicalism by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 2, 2020 Moonshot CVE, a private London-based start-up aimed at heading off radicalism, has developed an online tool that sends those who type in extremist search terms in Google to videos promoting anti-extremist views. The company first used … Continue reading Startup Uses Paid Search To Redirect Extremist Terms In Google To Counter Radicalism
Google Maps Being Abused By Scammers To Redirect Links
Google Maps Being Abused By Scammers To Redirect Links by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, May 2, 2018 Google Maps, a tool search that marketers frequently use to support campaigns, has been hit with another scam. Scammers have been abusing a feature in the Maps API, the link-shortening service on Google Maps. They redirect users to undesirable … Continue reading Google Maps Being Abused By Scammers To Redirect Links
When Should You Choose Canonical vs. 301 Redirect?
Irina Hey, November 1, 2016 Duplicate content is a problem every webmaster will be confronted with at some point. For Google and other search engines, duplicate content is initially not a negative signal. However, identical and similar content from different URLs can cause confusion and lead to ranking problems. To avoid duplicate content, you … Continue reading When Should You Choose Canonical vs. 301 Redirect?
Redirect SEO Guide: Impact of Redirection on Traffic and Domain Authority
by Nick RojasSeptember 19, 2016 Redirects are used to tell visitors or web crawlers where to go if the page they are requesting is no longer available for one reason or another. Although this concept is fairly simple, many website developers use redirects incorrectly, which can severely impact the website’s performance as well as its … Continue reading Redirect SEO Guide: Impact of Redirection on Traffic and Domain Authority
5 Powerful Awesome Htaccess Redirect Tricks [How To]
By Joseph McCullough August 18th, 2015 So you already understand the importance of proper URL normalization within a site’s structure. Great! … but where do you go from there? The htaccess file allows you to override certain decisions that the server makes in the background. What this means for SEOs is that we can manipulate … Continue reading 5 Powerful Awesome Htaccess Redirect Tricks [How To]
How to Use a 301 Redirect for SEO
Eric SealMarch 24, 2015 Are you getting the most out of your 301 redirects? SEO best practices demand that you use each 301 redirect for maximum benefit—for visitors and you. But whether you’re rewriting URLs or fixing navigation errors, using 301 redirects in an SEO sense takes a little more effort than usual. As San … Continue reading How to Use a 301 Redirect for SEO
What is the Difference between 301 Redirect and Canonical Attribute
by spaceamoeba As with many areas of the search engine world, there are some grey areas but Google does provides some guidelines on how to manage redirections and what each communicates to the search engine. A 301 Redirect signals to the search engine that the page has been moved permanently, remove the page from the … Continue reading What is the Difference between 301 Redirect and Canonical Attribute