About Mass Hacking Sites to get backlinks (Link Injection)

Google Spam Team has been successfully fighting Search Ranking Manipulations (through backlinks) for 4 years now. They have tackled most of the link farms, paid blog review farms and alike. Spam Teams’ effort has ultimately helped Google Top 10 results to be of a higher quality. It became very expensive to get backlinks as you would have to generate high quality content and get others to link back to you. Such high quality backlinks are hard to get and very expensive. Yet, Web Spam Team did one more thing – it made all the online gambling, online pharmacy and alike businesses (where AdWords are prohibited) to go on search for new “cheap, quick, easy” methods.
The latest technique is “Hacking Sites” for backlinks.

 

If issue is not addressed by Google – millions of sites will be hacked for links

Google Web Spam team must act and must act now! With hacking sites for backlinks being so effective – more and more sites are being hacked for links and gateway page injections! This can cause a real mess as this black-hat method becomes more and more popular. Last year (late 2014 – early 2015 ) we saw infrequent sites with 10-30 hacked backlinks. At that time we thought it would not be a big deal for Google and Web Spam Team would find a solution with the new (updated) Penguin Algo run. You can not see a single site to have over 20 000+ hacked backlinks, comfortably taking Googles top 3 positions within their niches.

Hacking sites to get back links: 2015-2016 Trend!

There are many hackers out there and there are many vulnerable sites as well. What if you find 10 000 high quality sites that have exploits which you can use to place a small, tiny contextual link? Well – this will get you 10 000 strong backlinks that will top you in search results if anchor text is not over spamed!
Chances are the webmaster will not even notice new “hacked” contextual link on some secondary, inner page. This is a real problem for Google now as it is very hard to 100% identify such links as “hacked links”. There is no common denominator as you can use different exploits (backdoors) and hacked sites are not connected to one another unlike a link farm would be…

How far can Hackers go?

The sad reality is that we have seen Page Injections, link injections, Code injections and more. We have seen an IBM site’s inner page being hacked and replaced with a casino page (doorway) that would land you onto a casino partner site. With some of the hacked sites being Top Level / High Authority sites – such hacked inner pages would top 10 Google search results just though the relevant page Title and Description… All this makes a legit SEO efforts useless for the time being. Hacked back-links are now used / common in most web industries.

Are Hacked Links Expensive?

Unfortunately, they are very inexpensive and the only reason businesses go for them is because it is 10 to 100 times cheaper, faster and easier to place hacked links compared to placing a high quality thematic article through legit site’s webmaster.
All you need is a script that will scan sites for known exploits and then inject the vulnerable sites with a link or a code.

What is the problem with such methods?

There are many problems. It is very hard for legit “white hat” SEO Companies to compete with sites who have mass hacked backlinks. Second – most of top 10 sites who are there because of hacked backlinks are usually of a very low quality (hacking for backlinks cannot be a great long term strategy). Third – someone’s site is being hacked and link is being placed without webmaster’s consent or knowledge. Hacking sites like that is borderline criminal in our opinion.
For $9 you can easily purchase a Page Rank 3 (PR) hacked site’s link. Same link if an article is placed through the sites’ webmaster will cost you around $100 USD. There is a Russian forum where you can buy around 1000 such links right now. Sites PR 0-2 will cost you as low as $0.5 USD….Other advanced companies would write their own scrips to hack for link injection…

What to do if you think your site was hacked for backlinks?

You will need to fix the exploits by updating your site’s platform (CMS) to a newer version, scanning your site for security issues or by seeking custom programming help. After you did your best – delete those hacked links and re-check your entire site in a few weeks for new outbound links. If no new suspicious outbound links are placed by “third party” – then you are most likely good for the next little while.

In Conclusion

Hacked backlinks work. Hacked links are fast, cheap, easy to get and effective. They will most likely work well for a very long time or until Google will start taking this issue a bit more seriously. There is a way to fight this trend but it will require some real man-hours from Google Web Spam Team. Until then, we advise you to check your site for outbound backlinks every 4 weeks to make sure your site was not “hacked”. With Google being silent – more and more innocent sites are being hacked with a purpose of manipulating Google’s organic search results.

It`s been 4 years since Google anti-spam team has launched Google Penguin algorythm, the main aim of which was fighting against driving up positions of low quality sites through semi-automatic paid links.

Usually, Google would pessimize websites for using links from low quality sites and for anchor text abuse in order to reach high positions quickly.
Most owners of small businesses are not ready to spend serious amount of money for qualified link building campaigns or to create high-quality content, which will lure the traffic and linking smoothly.

In 90% of all cases they end up ordering either “promises” (when they are provided with work pretense), or cheap services, where they are promised to get 300-1000 backlinks and take the site to the top of Google in a few months.

Results of such campaigns are usually end up in placement of hundreds of links on shady websites, which are impossible to control or delete in the future. In fact, paying for such services is alike ordering negative SEO. In some cases, you are being ripped off while getting your website penalized at the same time.

Very unfortunate to see established sites being penalized by Google just because they have gone with a bad SEO company.

It can take up to 3 years for those toxic links to die-off on their own (you cannot remove them manually)! Thus you can potentially get a 3-year long Google penalty.
We have found a workaround on how to win in this negative SEO lottery! It is extremely simple and effective. Your primary domain will remain safe and secure.

Technology:

• 1) 123USAmovers.com — your Primary domain, which is 15 years old and widely known in the region.
• 2) You want to try a new SEO company in order to expand but you do not want to risk.
• 3) Purchase a new domain – “USAmovers123.com”
• 4) Set up identical site and 301 permanent redirect your main site on to the new one – USAmovers123.com
• 5) Within a month your new site (USAmovers123.com) will get your original site’s rankings and authority
• 6) Now you can feel free to order as much link building on the new domain USAmovers123.com as you wish.

Because of the 301 redirect your new domain will get the same positions as your main website. Thus when your new site gets a Google penalty – you can take the redirect off and “roll back” to your initial positions with no worries at all having your old site work for you again “worry-free”.