September 12th, 2007 by James Omdahl
Everybody’s favorite back hat SEO cloaker, Fanotmaster, posted about the rumored acquisition of GoDaddy by Google (yeah, you heard me right, the Google wants in on those famous Super Bowl ads).
He explains that there are a number of scary issues black hat SEO will face if GOOG does buy GoDaddy. Things like Google being able to identify, real-time, when domain names change hands (so Google can reset rankings and what-not) and Google being able to see behind the ever popular Domians-By-Proxy service so they can track down naughty site owners.
I’ll go one step further and say that this rumored acquisition could be really bad news for PPC affiliates using Domains-By-Proxy who open multiple accounts owned by the same company or person to drive PPC traffic. If Google’s PPC team can identify a common owner to multiple sites they can consolidate those accounts (don’t ask me how I know…I just do), making it a lot harder to scale your business.
Fantomaster provides three strategies to hide your tracks in case the GoDaddy acquisition goes through.
One involves setting up an offshore corporation, which is so Miami Vice and so cool…cue the opening credits…(read the whole post here.)
September 12th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Google acquiring GoDaddy? I could see that. Kinda scary.