While checking the backlink environment for a site, I stumbled across something rather amusing (to me, anyway). It involves happyfrog.ca, a BC based green directory which is a warehouse of links to sites about sustainability, green living, etc. I think its a good site, but apparently they need some spam protection:
Google Results for site:happyfrog.ca "nude"
Here’s a link to the results in Google. The pages have an imbedded “video” which links to a site that is clearly a malware farm (download a codec… yeah right!). Now I finally know what keeps the frog happy…
I ran across a similar situation like this where a vast, deserted, forum with fully-followed links was left unexposed. I noticed this because I knew the site, and was surprised to see it ranked (if I recall correctly) on page one for “lingerie” – this despite the fact the host was highly-ranked, professionally-accredited online education site (precisely the reason it was attacked). It’s shocking how many sites (.org and .edu’s being the main target) have no comment protection, and/or have functional but abandoned forums, and/or have allow content creation.
By the way, there was a legitimate and professional reason I was looking at the SERPs for “lingerie.” Were I surfing for pleasure the query would, of course, would have been “sexy seos in lingerie.”
Hmm… odd. That query came up for me as ‘Did you mean: “sexy shoes in lingerie”‘.
Purely scientific, of course…