- Mar 26, 2013
- 14,988
- 11,439
Authoritative buzzfeed research method:
Link to article:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/hackers-website-links-backlinks-seo-spam
- gets information from documents posted by a member.
- uses list to spam potentially affected companies with email requests for information
- contacts Google, Sape and Charles Floate for quotes
- thinks that contacting BHW to verify information / check rules is unnecessary
- writes 500 words about one specific BHW thread, copy-pasting member's content
- confuses site hacking with legal black hat link building
- implies most injected backlinks originate from one BHW member
- discovers that injected backlinks make site owners sad

Link to article:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/hackers-website-links-backlinks-seo-spam