Do seo hackers care so much about the environment?
Al Gore’s website was hacked by spammers that added outbound links from his site to other sites they wanted to promote.
apparently, the new type of hackers, the SEO hackers constantly look for high ranking sites, (Al Gore’s site has PR7) just for adding outbound links. It is clear that this is happening a lot, and Al Gore’s site is just one of many sites that were hacked.
It seems like a vulnerability in WordPress has left many bloggers open to attack by the same method.
This is a new era of hacking. They didn’t come for money, credit card numbers, nor user passwords. They came for Link Juice!
How exciting is that!
Wouldn’t that be funny if this page also has hidden links to some extremely disrespected sites? 
Long time ago, I have started working on a tool that will scan a given website for all outbound links, will check the PR of every outbound link domain, and will compare the results to the previous scan.
The original purpose was finding outbound links to bad neighborhoods, like sites that lost their ranking due to illegal activity. This tool will easily detect seo hacking on our customers websites.
Stay tuned!
November 29th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Wow,
This really sound like a great tool !
Did you considered selling it ?
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Hi Shayke,
Sorry, no software for sale, it is developed for in house use only.
If I think about selling I’ll let you know, but I don’t think it will happen soon