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Sophos: Google easily fooled by PDF link-farms

July 10, 2015
Link-farming with PDF (still) fools Google. What are they parsing, and what are they doing with what they get?
Duff Johnson
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As CEO, Duff coordinates industry activities and promotes the advancement and adoption of PDF technology worldwide.


The Sophos blog discusses their discovery of a (very) old method of SEO manipulation leveraging Google's (apparent) trust in the contents of PDF documents.

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