[WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

[Puppy (KillerChihuahua)]

Several odious personages, actually. I scanned some of the comments, and 
they are all ethically challenged:

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Comment by Melanie Phung <http://www.all-about-content.com/>
- 2008-11-06 12:19:37

I’ll take that one step further. Start by spamming the crap out of the 
Wikipedia page in question with internal Wiki links — add links to as 
many Wikipedia pages as quickly as you can, they should be barely relevant.

In my experience, adding a huge volume of internal links all at once can 
trip a Google filter and make the page disappear from the SERP (at least 
for a little while).

Then in a day or so you can go back (obviously from a different 
IP/account) and remove all those links PLUS many of the original legit 
links in the name of cleaning up after “the spammer”. Just make sure you 
don’t look too obvious.

This accomplishes two things: 1) you might succeed in knocking the page 
off Google’s front page for appearing to have gained a spammy link 
profile and 2) it gives you a legit looking reason to remove existing 
links on powerful Wiki pages.

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Notice the stated aim is not to be ethical at all, the aim is to have a 
legit "looking" reason. The only concerns raised at all were either "But 
how do you prevent being caught?" and one very weak comment that "That's 
why this is blue hat, not white hat".

Meh.


David Gerard wrote:
> http://www.bluehatseo.com/how-to-overthrow-a-wikipedia-result/
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> What an odious person.
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