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Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

oyun — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:07:00 -0000

I heard of this blog getting hacked

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

Jack — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:26:09 -0000

Gotta admit, I heard of this blog getting hacked and thought "april fools prank" immediately.

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

marc — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:19:25 -0000

Lee,

1) Wake-up
2) Check calendar
3) Blog

:-)

P.S. I wasn't sure myself...I posted the screen shot on flickr and wasn't sure if it was a 1337 haxxor or a clever april fools' joke.

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

Lee Odden — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:21:32 -0000

Ha, this is pretty good. I sent Matt an email early this morning about his site being hacked and then realized it wasn't and sent another "you got me" email. He didn't rub it in in his reply - being the nice guy that he is. That's what I get for blogging things early Sunday mornings. :)

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

DarkSEOteam — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:57:05 -0000

No Lee, I wasn't precognitioning the fact that you will remove the link from my comment at the moment I wrote it, before you had the time to even read it.
I'm good doing SEO but you are overestimating my abilities.
To be honest, I didn't even imagine what could justify it.
Never mind.
I was just wondering why you were linking to every source concerning this buzz except us.
Frankly, we don't need your link, our website is down and we won't do anything to make profit with this...whatever you want to call it.
I would like to remind you that we did a lot, in US forums, but also through actions like faking Google's PR10 or GoogleBowling Matt's blog to force Google to admit that they had serious issues with canonical URLS while, as GoogleGuy, Matt was simply saying to webmasters who had their websites hijacked that this just couldn’t happen (remember the thread in SEW when even Danny had to tell him to stop playing fool ?).
He recognized the problem 1 year later, after he made his coming out (GoogleGuy -> Matt Cuts) and because it became so obvious.
We are not hackers, otherwise we would have kept what we knew for us instead of making it public and we would have use it to derank websites which we never did.
We aren't a dirty team of hackers you won't even link to their website when you are talking about them.
It reminds me the “very white hat attitude” of splitting on everything which looked darker than their version of grey.
That is what I meant in my original comment.
You like Google's April Fool's Jokes ?
Here is another one you've missed from Gmail homepage:
http://mail.google.com/mail...

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

$26289639 — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:37:59 -0000

:) Shoemoney did something similar last night (he thought doing it today would be too obvious...). "Got hacked" by Hanso Foundation.

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

Aaron Pratt — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:18:01 -0000

Yeppers!

You got to watch the tendency to blog it first Lee, you can miss key elements. ;)

Looks like the joke is on DarkSEOteam.

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

Lee Odden — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:02:06 -0000

Ha, I didn't REALLY look at the credits until now. If those references are what I think they are, it's hilarious. I don't know all of them, but see references to Danny Sullivan, Dax Herrera, Dave Naylor, Earl Grey, Rand Fishkin, Jeremy Shoemaker, Phillip Lessen and Robert Scoble maybe?

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

Aaron Pratt — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:40:38 -0000

Er Lee, did you read the credits?

It is an obvious joke by Matt.

I would be glad to link to the DarkSEOteam just to study the results. ;)

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

Lee Odden — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:16:19 -0000

I see. Well, the link has been removed from your comment if that's what you mean.

Re: Getting Hacked as Link Bait

DarkSEOteam — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:07:28 -0000

Don't even link to us, it could be considered as a Google blaspheme.
Websites have catched terrible diseases such as link juice haemorrhage for less than that.
You are right, nofollow won't protect you. You are taking a big risk just by writting our name on your blog.
You should have inlcuded it in an crypted image (Google's great eyes read and understand images).

Alexandra
DarkSEOteam