Here is the blog following the tech companies that went kaput. The first entry I see is as on June3, 2006.
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Thousands of government, NHS, school and police websites have been doctored to
include links to pornography, viruses and other inappropriate material.
An investigation by The Times and Trend Micro, the internet security
specialists, has revealed that a large number of taxpayer-funded official
websites has been hit by a practice known as "link spamming".
This is when a hacker, or a member of the public, adds links to an official
website, which then point visitors to other, inappropriate, material.
It means that an unsuspecting parent might click on an innocent-looking link
on their child's school site and be taken to a pornographic internet site
instead, or a patient might click on an NHS website link only to download a
harmful computer virus without their knowledge. Many government-created
websites are potentially unsafe.
The practice has become widespread, affecting the pages of Whitehall
departments such as the Department of Education, fire brigades, police
forces, local and district councils, NHS and health service sites and a
large number of schools across the country.
Experts said the findings exposed the poor security of government-run sites,
which has left them open to abuse. Sometimes a hacker will illegally
infiltrate a site to add links that are then hidden from view.
But others are taking advantage of the lax moderation and editing of these
sites with, for example, links being added to discussion forums accessible
by any other user. The links to inappropriate webpages can easily be seen by
the people who control a website, but they have not been deleted, as in many
cases they should be.
"The purpose of it is to move a website up the rankings when a search engine
returns results," said Rik Ferguson, an analyst at Trend Micro.
He explained that a search engine, such as Google, works by ranking websites
in order of importance and relevance to a given search term. Once you type
in "Harry Potter", Google will list all sites it deems most relevant to J.K.
Rowling's boy-wizard.
One of the ways a search engine works out whether something should be ranked
highly is by seeing how many other web pages link back to it. So if one
Harry Potter fan site has been linked to 100 times, it is likely to appear
higher in a search engine's results than a rival site that has only been
linked to a few times.
Also, search engines will give more prominence to authoritative websites, such
as official government pages. All this means that if somebody typed in a
pornographic search term into Google, sites that have been linked to by many
official websites are likely to appear near the top of the search results.
Mr Ferguson said: "The aim is to move on to the first page of Google results.
The statistics show very strongly that if you're not on page 1, people don't
often search on page 2 of Google's results."
The findings are likely to prove embarrassing for a government that has
criminalised possession of some types of online material, such as those
related to violent porn, but in some cases, is unable to stop its own
websites referring readers to illegal content. The Cabinet Office was
invited to comment on the findings, but no spokesperson was available.
In the past, cyber-criminals have also attacked key government and consumer
websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the
sites. A visitor to a site would be infected by a virus, which automatically
installs itself on that person's computer, allowing a hacker to access
personal or financial information.
Source: TIMESONLINE
Online Marketers pay attention. I
don't know who you have been talking to and who has been helping you make it on
twitter but if they tell you to do one the things listed below then they don't
understand seo social media marketing, and don't listen to them.
- Don't follow thousands of people that don't
every follow you back on Twitter. Nothing screams out "spammer"
more than this. Just add people naturally at a normal pace, with in time
you will build a nice amount of followers organically, so don't rush out
and start following 1898 people in one day. - Don't
use Auto-Follow back immediately
after someone start following you on Twitter. Don't use Tweet Later.
You're not going to get so many followers over night that you need to use
this. Just don't use anything auto on Twitter, be a real person. - Don't
do URL-Stuffing in your bio on twitter. Just put your web site URL where
it should be just like everyone else on Twitter. Everyone has a web site.
If you give good value on your tweets then people will click and go to
your web site. - Don't
pitch people your product or service in your bio on Twitter, all that will
do is drive people away. Social media is about being social, not going
around and pitching everyone. - Don't
sell in tweets. You may be asking yourself, what is this guy talking
about, isn't that what they are there for? Flat out the Answer is NO. They
are on twitter to build relationships and network with people by providing
value, which latter on may lead to a sale indirectly. You can tell people
that your product is available not by selling but by giving value.
If I would sum up all these points I
would say just act like a normal person as much as you can. Provide value as
much as possible. Providing value on your tweets is the best thing to do on all
your social marketing profiles in all of your online marketing
The most successful internet
marketing people on Twitter are primarily not doing
any of these things. You want to mimic them to help your success in your SEO
Online Marketing Efforts.
Source: PromotionWorld
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