{"id":193,"date":"2007-02-22T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/02\/22\/google-cloaking\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T18:34:00","slug":"google-cloaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/02\/google-cloaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aff sites are still fram\u00ading my site, and the num\u00adber of hits and amount of band\u00adwidth is cer\u00adtainly not decreas\u00ading with time (details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/01\/theyre-back\/\">pre\u00advi\u00adous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/12\/framed\/\">posts<\/a>, if you want to catch up on the story). I\u2019m still not entirely sure what they\u2019re doing, but the script they use (if you fetch the pages with a com\u00admand-line tool) has spe\u00adcif\u00adic instruc\u00adtions for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> and oth\u00ader search engines, so there\u2019s obvi\u00adously some reas\u00adon for&nbsp;that.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, this is a clas\u00adsic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloaking\">cloak\u00ading<\/a> attack, and, to quote Wiki\u00adpe\u00addia as of the time I read the art\u00adicle, \u201cmajor search engines con\u00adsider cloak\u00ading for decep\u00adtion to be a viol\u00ada\u00adtion of their guidelines, and there\u00adfore, they del\u00adist sites when decept\u00adive cloak\u00ading is repor\u00adted\u201d. So I figured that was worth a try and filled out the form at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/contact\/spamreport.html\">Report a Spam Res\u00adult<\/a> (for your enter\u00adtain\u00adment, the search query I put in was \u201cadul riendfinder.com\u201d, which illus\u00adtrates the prob\u00adlem nicely).<\/p>\n<p>Has any\u00adone else ever tried this and have it work? Any hints? I sub\u00admit\u00adted the form over a week ago, and have seen no res\u00adults yet. I thought I\u2019d try with Google first since they gen\u00ader\u00adally are quick at updat\u00ading their indices (they were cer\u00adtainly quick\u00ader at flush\u00ading the hack\u00ading res\u00adults than&nbsp;Yahoo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aff sites are still fram\u00ading my site, and the num\u00adber of hits and amount of band\u00adwidth is cer\u00adtainly not decreas\u00ading with time (details at pre\u00advi\u00adous posts, if you want to catch up on the story). I\u2019m still not entirely sure what they\u2019re doing, but the script they use (if you fetch the pages with \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/02\/google-cloaking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cGoogle Cloaking\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}