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In a remarkable story which I first uncovered via Search Engine Land, Google has banned their own AdWords help pages from search results because of cloaking, a technique well known amongst black hat SEOs.
What is Cloaking?
According to Google’s own guidelines, Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search…
Apple’s new iPad has been the target of a black hat SEO campaign which aims to trick users into downloading rouge security software.
Black hat SEOs have managed to get malicious sites ranking for terms like “apple ipad rumor” and “apple tablet” across Google and other search engines. When users visit this site, they are prompted to download some software…