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Driving Links Through Blackhat SEO

Cade Medtz tells us about a London-based blackhat SEO who gamed the link-exchange site Reddit by using fake accounts to boost voting on selected stories. This was the blackhat known only as Esrun, who posted a video describing a way to create fake accounts using scripts to create fake votes. The scripts allowed him to encourage votes from real users and drive links to the top of selected news category pages.

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