Essay-writing-services.net hacked my site for an SEO black hat link
Dear Essay-Writing-Services.net,
So yesterday I noticed some really nasty and well hidden copy with a number of embedded links at the bottom of the home page of my personal blog. If you look at the very bottom it may still be there but in case you have removed it recently – it stated the following:
Helpful essay writing reviews with a discount. We ll make your paper fast – essay-writing.org.uk . Cool essay writing debate made by experienced uk teachers – essayxwriting.com.
Needless to say this copy was nothing to do with me, and the very fact it is hidden right at the bottom and written in a similar colour to my background (obviously to avoid detection – see image and the dark blue link) was pretty clever but also extremely unprofessional and really pretty rude. Does the boss know you are doing this regularly?
I know WordPress is pretty open to hackers but I have found this practice really, really odd and extremely unprofessional. I can’t believe there are still SEO practitioners out there hacking sites inserting fake links just to get their clients further up Google rankings. Let’s hope Google reads this post and penalise you for it.
If the company involved would like to contact me on here in the comments and let me know how I can remove their text that would be useful.
Finally, as a huge fan of all things digital and SEO I read a lot of blogs from experts in this area such as Cyrus Shephard and Danny Dover and obviously Matt Cutts I would like them to let me know what they think about this kind of practice? I can’t believe good quality SEO experts would.
Are black hat tactics like this still actually widespread and does this affect/ruin the reputation of good quality SEO practitioners like yourselves?
I suppose I am kind of asking if the SEO industry needs PR practitioners to manage their industries reputation? You guys need to get rid of poor SEO businesses that do things like this as its shameful behaviour. I have worked with some great SEO guys who really know their stuff and I thought things had moved on significantly in the last five years. I obviously know SEO is moving more towards my area of expertise like online PR but I can’t believe companies in the modern era still think they need to hack sites to rank properly. Surely, they realise they will get found out.
Here’s a crazy idea for you – why not write something interesting and build some real relationships with real people instead of filling the internet with utter crap packed with keywords and links to pointless junk that never gets read?
Let me know what you think of this practice in the comments.