How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top

[f8L]

The Associated Press: How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top

 

[TheCrabb]

Stickley's site wasn't malicious, but easily could have been. In the year and a half it was up, the 10,568 visitors were automatically redirected to the real credit union, and likely never knew they had passed through a fraudulent site.

10568 visitors in a whole year... He couldn't have been ranking for any "real" terms. Especially in the credit space!

 

[guerilla]

Domains generally cost a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars each — a pittance compared with a financial institution's potential liability or loss of goodwill if its customers are ripped off by a fake site.

Is this a joke article written for the quasi-retarded by Jordan Robertson and Michael Liedtke?

 

[rogerrabbit]

Dullspace

 

[Refrozen]

If you read his "methodology" it'd have never worked, either. What the fuck is up with this article?

 

[kineticbug]

This hurts my head

 

[Magic Hat]

THEY TOOK OUR RANKINS

 

[Andrew Scherer]

THEY TOOK OUR RANKINS

LOOOOL

 

[HarveyJ]

They were probably only searching for "credit union southern california" or some such, to get those rankings. Fairly specific long tails like that should be easy enough to ge a decent ran for if the owner hasn't done a decent job of SEO.

The experiment convinced Credit Union of Southern California that it should protect itself by being more aggressive about buying domain names similar to its own. Domains generally cost a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars each

If you're buying after market, and if you don't bother to WIPO the shit out of a domainer that's made registrations in bad faith.