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IATLD Site Hacked to promote casinos

I noticed this on google.ca a while ago, and tried to take some action over a month ago. It looks like the hack uses geo-targeting along with the keywords searched to trigger the redirect. I posted everything I found at the GPWA: http://www.gpwa.org/forum/hacker-black-hatter-210194.html

I sent emails to the affiliate programs with casinos on the sites that I found, and also submitted a report to google.
 
Perc said:
I noticed this on google.ca a while ago, and tried to take some action over a month ago. It looks like the hack uses geo-targeting along with the keywords searched to trigger the redirect. I posted everything I found at the GPWA:
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I sent emails to the affiliate programs with casinos on the sites that I found, and also submitted a report to google.
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Whilst they dither, the hack steadily gains more publicity, as well as spreading to more sites. The bigger this is allowed to get, the more damage it does to the online casino industry, as they are the product being pushed, rather than the more usual Viagra and enlargement schemes. The types of site being attacked is also likely to enrage the wrong people (those anti-online gambling), and provide them with "evidence" that this is not a legitimate industry.
 
You are months ahead of me.... I'm not a GPWA member so my question is.

Were the operators contacted and what was there reply.

They obviously did nothing as the sites are still there and the affiliate or whomever ever is doing the hacking are carrying on their merry way with no repercussions from the operators or Google.

Will everyone here at least submit spam reports.

I suggest that everyone on the GPWA also submit spam reports. Power in numbers and all that.

Lets do something.
 
mercyme said:
You are months ahead of me.... I'm not a GPWA member so my question is.

Were the operators contacted and what was there reply.

They obviously did nothing as the sites are still there and the affiliate or whomever ever is doing the hacking are carrying on their merry way with no repercussions from the operators or Google.

Will everyone here at least submit spam reports.

I suggest that everyone on the GPWA also submit spam reports. Power in numbers and all that.

Lets do something.
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It does seem that this has been going on for a while, and is the SECOND time there has been a major hacking incident involving rogue affiliates. Whilst operators involved haven't had long to respond to this thread, they have had months to respond to the one at GPWA, and a YEAR to react to this type of hack in more general terms. If the repercussions of the 2012 Joomla attack were sufficiently robust, it should have deterred this latest incident.

It is a little worrying that of the three operators involved, only one so far has expressed a view that this is not acceptable for their program, but despite having the affiliate tags and identity of those involved, action is not exactly swift and robust. They have made another week's worth of referral revenue whilst two operators have yet to look into this.

If they get to benefit financially from this kind of action, they will do it again and again. The more they do it, the more negative PR the whole industry suffers.
 
This is what I think we should do otherwise this thread will die a miserable death and once again affiliates will prove to be toothless when it comes to joining forces and actually achieving something.

Lets all post when we have completed a spam report so we know how many are being submitted.

I have submitted a spam report for all the sites that are hacking. It was a total of 10 spam reports.

Who is next ?
 
mercyme said:
hello... is thread dead !!!
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No. I'm still here. :p

The Palace Group has contacted me and are investigating. Fortune Lounge already mentioned that they are monitoring this as well.

Who's left?

Have the Rewards Group been involved? I haven't seen any of their casinos mentioned.
 
mercyme said:
Not sure what that means, it should take them no time at all to identify who is doing this.
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The Rewards Group: you should know them if you are an affiliate. They've had a couple of issues in the past. I figured you'd know something about that.
 
Casinomeister said:
No. I'm still here. :p

The Palace Group has contacted me and are investigating. Fortune Lounge already mentioned that they are monitoring this as well.

Who's left?

Have the Rewards Group been involved? I haven't seen any of their casinos mentioned.
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The third was Digimedia.

They may be investigating, but there is no communication.


How hard can it be to connect an affiliate tag to an individual affiliate account?

The perceived simplicity of this process makes it hard to believe that there is much in the way of investigation necessary. It is already clear that this goes way beyond the worst spamming campaign. This is the criminal hijacking of websites through the use of malware. The target may be Google SEO, but property not belonging to the affiliate has been misappropriated to achieve the goal.

The sites hijacked have nothing whatsoever to do with online gambling, so there is also the potential for severe reputational damage being done to the industry as a whole, and the three brands being promoted in particular.

Look at this from the point of view of the webmasters of these sites once they find out what has happened, and for who's benefit. They are going to see "online casinos" as the rogue element, not an individual affiliate. They may then have this view reflected by their government, and this is bad for the industry as a whole who have been trying to convince governments around the world that this industry is just as legitimate as any other internet based "entertainment" business.

One doesn't see Netflix or Lovefilm promoting themselves by injecting malware into websites to boost their Google rankings.

We should at least see the affiliate accounts involved being frozen pending the outcome of the investigation so that they are not able to profit further due to the time taken to complete the investigation. It's no different to what would happen to a player when their account is under investigation.
 
I've spoken with the Palace group rep over the phone and they are investigating and monitoring this situation.

One thing to keep in mind, there are many affiliates who buy up domains that already have traffic and create banner farms. There is nothing ethically wrong with this (maybe aesthetically), but how is an affiliate program know that this is not the case?

In other words, where is the evidence of the "hacking"? Don't make accusations unless you have facts to back you up.

An assumption or your opinion is not a fact. Thank you.
 
Casinomeister said:
I've spoken with the Palace group rep over the phone and they are investigating and monitoring this situation.

One thing to keep in mind, there are many affiliates who buy up domains that already have traffic and create banner farms. There is nothing ethically wrong with this (maybe aesthetically), but how is an affiliate program know that this is not the case?

In other words, where is the evidence of the "hacking"? Don't make accusations unless you have facts to back you up.

An assumption or your opinion is not a fact. Thank you.
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This is much more than just buying domains and creating banner farms out of them.

I have noticed one website has fixed the hack, communityofchrist.ca no longer re-directs but still shows up in a search for online casinos. Evidence?

Google is starting to notice, and is showing "This site may be compromised" for some of those hacked websites:

oendotca.webp

I can't see the Ontario Environment Network allowing their domain to expire, I suppose it is possible, but they are still using their website. Actually that's one webmaster I haven't attempted to contact, I'll do that now.

Even if all of these domains happened to expire and the same affy bought them, the re-directs and whatever else they are doing do show up in google is pure black hat stuff. Worse than email spam, this is search engine spam.

Hacking or not, it makes the entire industry look bad, especially those casinos listed on the hacked websites. Now that brings up another issue, don't most websites have to be approved before an affy can send traffic from them?

The #1 result for 'online casinos' in google.ca is one of these websites. It makes me sick thinking about the potential income from just a few months of sitting in that spot, and it's not fair to the rest of us who work hard trying to get there.

These affiliates should not be paid, period. Evidence of hacking or not (how does one actually get real evidence?), I'm sure many affiliate program T&C's are being broken by these affiliates.

Edited to add: If you search for "Ontario Environment Network" on google.ca and click on the oen.ca website, you will get their regular website. If you search for "Ontario Environment Network Casino" and click on the same site, you are redirected to a casino portal. You may need to be in Canada for this to work, some people outside of Canada have tried with a proxy but still didn't get the redirect.

At the bottom of this portal is "2012 © best-canada-casinos.com" and it is the same portal that several of these hacked websites redirect to.
 
Perc said:
This is much more than just buying domains and creating banner farms out of them.

I have noticed one website has fixed the hack, communityofchrist.ca no longer re-directs but still shows up in a search for online casinos. Evidence?

Google is starting to notice, and is showing "This site may be compromised" for some of those hacked websites:

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I can't see the Ontario Environment Network allowing their domain to expire, I suppose it is possible, but they are still using their website. Actually that's one webmaster I haven't attempted to contact, I'll do that now.

Even if all of these domains happened to expire and the same affy bought them, the re-directs and whatever else they are doing do show up in google is pure black hat stuff. Worse than email spam, this is search engine spam.

Hacking or not, it makes the entire industry look bad, especially those casinos listed on the hacked websites. Now that brings up another issue, don't most websites have to be approved before an affy can send traffic from them?

The #1 result for 'online casinos' in google.ca is one of these websites. It makes me sick thinking about the potential income from just a few months of sitting in that spot, and it's not fair to the rest of us who work hard trying to get there.

These affiliates should not be paid, period. Evidence of hacking or not (how does one actually get real evidence?), I'm sure many affiliate program T&C's are being broken by these affiliates.

Edited to add: If you search for "Ontario Environment Network" on google.ca and click on the oen.ca website, you will get their regular website. If you search for "Ontario Environment Network Casino" and click on the same site, you are redirected to a casino portal. You may need to be in Canada for this to work, some people outside of Canada have tried with a proxy but still didn't get the redirect.

At the bottom of this portal is "2012 © best-canada-casinos.com" and it is the same portal that several of these hacked websites redirect to.
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Testimony from the webmaster of the "hacked" site that they have not sold their domain, nor allowed it to expire.

The problem with "monitoring" is that nothing is actually being done to address the situation, and it could be a high risk strategy if this really is something of significance in the "black hat" or "hacking" world. Google should also be taking this seriously, as the nature of this seems to give the impression that the "hack" only becomes evident when a site is accessed via a Google result link, and everything is normal if the site's URL is typed in directly.

Even if this is a crafty affiliate buying up numerous domains, the fact that the old content has not been flushed makes it appear as though the sites have been hacked. It also creates an association between the former owners and online gambling, something that they may not like. A few of the sites appear to be regulatory bodies, standards agencies, and charitable organisations. Leaving the old content lying around is even more damaging to the industry as it flies in the face of certain taboos in how this pastime should be promoted.
 
Well I got a reply from the owner of the Ontario Environment Network website. He thanked me for letting him know and said "I will let our server know about this."

I will try to keep in contact with him and get as much information as I can about what exactly happened.
 
Perc said:
Well I got a reply from the owner of the Ontario Environment Network website. He thanked me for letting him know and said "I will let our server know about this."

I will try to keep in contact with him and get as much information as I can about what exactly happened.
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Maybe the owners of many of these compromised sites have no idea about this, and when they find out this could turn out to be something pretty big.

We can certainly rule out an affiliate legitimately getting hold of this domain and changing it's use.
 
I am the owner of
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and this issue is extremely irritating and damaging to the ethical Canadian casino affiliates. The www.casinotop.ca is especially damaging, it is dominating most of the high value keywords like "best online casino", "best online casinos" etc. I've done my part to report the situation to Google and CIRA. Hopefully we'll see something done about this.
 
There are currently a bucket load of expired bought up domains appearing in the serps in Google. Which I am inclined to believe is what we are seeing in the main here.

So much for Google Penguin and Panda updates and their goal of cleaning up the serps. A lot of these sites have little in the way of content and are just designed to redirect traffic to gambling properties without providing anything resembling a resource.

I also would not be surprised if some gambling groups have a direct hand in this activity. For instance the Palace Group employ in excess of 200 people, with their number one core expertise being SEO, according to their parent company's website:
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Webzcas said:
There are currently a bucket load of expired bought up domains appearing in the serps in Google. Which I am inclined to believe is what we are seeing in the main here.

So much for Google Penguin and Panda updates and their goal of cleaning up the serps. A lot of these sites have little in the way of content and are just designed to redirect traffic to gambling properties without providing anything resembling a resource.

I also would not be surprised if some gambling groups have a direct hand in this activity. For instance the Palace Group employ in excess of 200 people, with their number one core expertise being SEO, according to their parent company's website:
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However, it looks like the cases highlighted here are hacked sites as well as possible expired domains. In many cases, the old content remains, and the gambling content placed alongside, or on top of, the old content. Surely buying an expired domain doesn't mean obtaining the copyrights enjoyed by the previous owner, so old content should not be left lying around.

As far as the general public are concerned, this looks like a major hacking incident because they can see that the sites affected have nothing to do with gambling. Even if what has been done is legit, it looks very bad in PR terms. Given that past incidents like this HAVE been identified as hacks or malware infected templates, it strengthens the view that this is yet another of these.

It even looks bad for Google as their results are even "dirtier" now than before the changes, which means legitimate webmasters are not getting a fair listing.

If this didn't defeat Google, it would not be done, whether by hacking or buying up expired domains.

One thing that would help would be to have an industry agreement among registrars and hosting companies that when a domain expires, the content will be purged when it is bought up by another party unless there is an agreement from the previous owner that the content itself should form part of the sale.

Google should also cut resold expired domains from it's search results altogether so that a purchaser cannot unjustly benefit from earlier rankings that have nothing to do with the current content of the site.


If this IS SEO by the operators, then they are guilty of deliberately freezing out their affiliates from showing up in Google searches. Coupled with one freezing affiliates' payments if they don't keep bringing new players, it places the affiliates in an impossible situation. They can't get into Google results because of all the black hat SEO, so they have to resort to similar black hat tactics in order to stand a chance of meeting the requirement to bring in new players so that their revenue from existing players is unfrozen. This is probably why Palace Group spam has gotten so bad, it's the only way affiliates can see to beat the black hat SEO that has frozen them out of Google, and they know that they are unlikely to get "busted" by the program which seems to have a lax attitude towards affiliates who spam.
 
I completely agree with what you have said VWM. My comment was not based on the examples listed in this thread, but in general with what I am seeing in the serps. ie hoovered up expired domains, benefiting from pre-existing links and on site seo to dominate a multitude of gambling related terms.

In the past well known gaming groups have been caught out using what at best can be described as 'dubious' seo techniques, just a search of the CM Forum will show this. Although I am not going to rake up old news.

Unfortunately, the problem is, the people and organisations behind what we are seeing in this thread will most likely have been very careful to cover their tracks. Because of this, it is very hard if not nigh on impossible to pin these activities to the individual(s) or companies behind these tactics. Hence people should be careful not to tar a group with a particular brush without cast iron proof.

That leaves us with one main option and that is report said sites to the Google spam team.

If this IS SEO by the operators, then they are guilty of deliberately freezing out their affiliates from showing up in Google searches.
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Affiliates are a necessary evil. I would imagine ( Operators please chime in if you want to ) that most if not all do not like having to pay their affiliate partners. Indeed, some of the actions we have seen over the years ( Grand Prive, Palace Group Regular_Waving_Emoticon.gifetc) have borne this out to be the case.

Another thing is most if not all operators have clauses whereby affiliates are not allowed to bid on their brand names using adwords or similar, if you do they shut your affiliate account down. But, it is fair game for casinos to bid on affiliate site names.
 
Webzcas said:
I completely agree with what you have said VWM. My comment was not based on the examples listed in this thread, but in general with what I am seeing in the serps. ie hoovered up expired domains, benefiting from pre-existing links and on site seo to dominate a multitude of gambling related terms.

In the past well known gaming groups have been caught out using what at best can be described as 'dubious' seo techniques, just a search of the CM Forum will show this. Although I am not going to rake up old news.

Unfortunately, the problem is, the people and organisations behind what we are seeing in this thread will most likely have been very careful to cover their tracks. Because of this, it is very hard if not nigh on impossible to pin these activities to the individual(s) or companies behind these tactics. Hence people should be careful not to tar a group with a particular brush without cast iron proof.

That leaves us with one main option and that is report said sites to the Google spam team.



Affiliates are a necessary evil. I would imagine ( Operators please chime in if you want to ) that most if not all do not like having to pay their affiliate partners. Indeed, some of the actions we have seen over the years ( Grand Prive, Palace Group View attachment 39460etc) have borne this out to be the case.

Another thing is most if not all operators have clauses whereby affiliates are not allowed to bid on their brand names using adwords or similar, if you do they shut your affiliate account down. But, it is fair game for casinos to bid on affiliate site names.
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Yet so far NO action has been taken against the affiliates hacking these sites highlighted in this thread. Only ONE rep so far has posted that they are "investigating", but we have the affy tags, so what is taking so long to reach a conclusion over the legitimacy of the SEO involved.

If a site has been hacked, then there is no "grey area", a crime has been committed (here in the UK at least), not merely a breach of contract.

Grey area or not, this is damaging the industry and in particular the brands being promoted by this method. The people behind this are unseen, it is the brands that are seen to be involved in this, Palace Group, Digimedia, and Fortune Lounge. They are all Microgaming, so they too will be tarred, even though they just supply the software.

Online gambling, through it's spamming and other SEO practices, is seen alongside Viagra resellers and penis pill purveyors as the type of thing any respectable vendor of security software would seek to filter out from users. Whilst the online gambling industry peddles it's wares alongside Viagra and enlargement services, they will struggle to be seen as a "respectable industry" outside of the player community. Many who don't play still see online casinos as a "scam" rather than a legitimate internet industry.

It looks like the affiliate programs are going to do nothing about this other than investigate and bury.

I am not sure about Google either, they are far too large to care about this niche to the extent that they will make major changes just to target this particular type of gambling SEO. Google might have taken action had the hacked sites presented the gambling banners even on searches without casino related terms.
 
Online gambling, through it's spamming and other SEO practices, is seen alongside Viagra resellers and penis pill purveyors as the type of thing any respectable vendor of security software would seek to filter out from users.
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Agree completely with this. Hence I never tell people I work in iGaming if asked what I do for a living by people I meet who do not work in the industry or play online. Gaming online is generally perceived as a bad thing morally by most.
 
mercyme said:
Why not start a report hackers forum, where hackers sites are displayed and affiliates can submit spam reports.
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We already have a spam reporting section, but it runs on the assumption that the programs involved will do something about it. This does not seem to be happening in this case. Of more use would be reports to entities that can make life hard for operators who don't make the effort to police their affiliates. This could get their domains blacklisted, or even have Google react by making it harder still for any kind of SEO for participants in this industry to be effective.

It may also be worth badgering the owners of affected sites to make their own reports, as they would carry more weight in terms of possible criminal proceedings, as it is THEIR property that has been violated. A report from a victim carries more weight than one from a third party that believes another party is a victim.

It's also hard to police, as it would depend on which country has jurisdiction over the case. These sites are Australian, so Australian law would be the obvious one to look at. If this was UK sites being hacked, it would be a criminal act, and would involve the police, with the hacker responsible facing charges under the relatively new "Computer misuse act". Before this, such matters were covered by civil law, meaning a webmaster had to sue the hacker for damages.

I very much doubt the parties responsible for this are in Australia, and are probably working from a country that does not have any criminal code covering this, which would mean webmasters having to find where they are, and suing in a foreign court. It is not going to happen. It is far more likely that the security industry will develop a defence against this, and then sell it to the affected webmasters, and others who don't want to be a victim in the future.

Sanctions would have to be taken against the brands being marketed in the hope that it will force them to act. The programs KNOW who is behind this, as they can track the traffic from the hacked sites to specific affiliate accounts. Anti Money Laundering laws would require them to know the legal entity they are paying for this traffic, and if nothing else, they can freeze those accounts so that no profit can come from this activity.

The brands themselves could also find themselves under fire from governments for failing to act. I am surprised that they seem in no hurry to deal with this incident, as governments will view the condoning of this kind of activity as a negative reflection on not just the brands involved, but this industry as a whole.

They may have picked Australia for this because as far as the Australian government is concerned, the whole activity is illegal unless an Australian license is held, but they know there is not much that can be done over enforcing this, so they mostly turn a blind eye. However, we already have some game developers that insist their games are not made available to Australian players as they fear this may damage their own reputation with the Australian government, harming other ventures they might want to pursue there.

We also have other game developers that have lists of countries where despite the government not really doing much in the way of enforcement, there is no legal recognition of online gambling as a legitimate activity, and so game developers don't want to sully their future chances by getting involved in a legal "grey area" in letting their branding be seen on games offered to players from such countries.
 
More on this over on Affiliate Guard Dog: Old / Expired Link

This time the domain that has been hijacked which is now displaying a 404 ( Presumably the owner is trying to fix the hack ) is digitalnow.com.au/‎

1.webp2.webp3.webp

Why are the casinos not doing anything about this?? This is not the work of multiple people IMO. This is down to one or two individuals. The casinos being promoted would know exactly who is responsible.
 
The member Grumble over on AGD has got the affiliate tags for these casinos, these are:

xxxhttp://www.spinpalace.com/lp/en/spcfd/?s=wgsa28922&a=wgsaffad43740
xxxhttp://www.rubyfortune.com/en/?s=wgsa28922&a=wgsaffad43740

xxxhttp://online.winner.com/promoRedirect?member=gremlinaus&campaign=DEFAULT&channel=DEFAULT&zone=52299783&lp=0

xxxhttp://au.royalvegascasino.com/aff/1200free/btag-ad513254/

xxxhttp://exclusive-promotions.com/jpc/13622.aspx?s=aff126908&a=affad6&currency=aud (JackpotCity-special Landing page)
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Could the respective reps look into this please and lets us know the state of play. You obviously know who the affiliate is in question. What they are doing in this particular instance is criminal and not only do they need their accounts shut down, but I am sure the webmaster and owner of the affected site will want to know who is behind this.
 
Webzcas said:
The member Grumble over on AGD has got the affiliate tags for these casinos, these are:



Could the respective reps look into this please and lets us know the state of play. You obviously know who the affiliate is in question. What they are doing in this particular instance is criminal and not only do they need their accounts shut down, but I am sure the webmaster and owner of the affected site will want to know who is behind this.
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Some affy tags were published here weeks ago, and so far no sign of any action from the casinos.

It's not the lack of affy tags that is holding things up.

I suspect they don't believe there is anything particularly wrong with what is being done, seeing it as merely some pretty clever SEO.

They may have decided that it is up to Google, not them, to ensure that this type of SEO cannot produce a false high ranking in search results.

There is one way to break the deadlock though. Find a site owner who will report this as a hack to their relevant authorities, and then obtain a court order forcing the program to reveal who is behind the offending tags so that they can be taken to court.

They are clever in hacking Aussie sites, rather than EU based ones, as this makes legal action much harder. If the hack was against an EU based site promoting an EU licensed casino, a legal, possibly criminal, remedy would be relatively easy at the European level due to a degree of cooperation between the governments and courts.

Getting this taken up as a criminal, rather than civil, matter means that the site owner does not face the risk and expense of a civil discovery and lawsuit.
 
I suspect they don't believe there is anything particularly wrong with what is being done, seeing it as merely some pretty clever SEO.
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Agreed and a lack of input to my question above will be very telling on all groups involved. Cutting to the chase, you don't see the likes of bet365, Ladbrokes or 32Red engage in or condone these activities.

If the casinos being promoted by this hacker or hackers do not take any action, then they themselves are condoning this activity. Of these groups, three of the four are accredited here and are eCOGRA certified as well as being Microgaming casinos. So I would hope they might do the right thing, although I guess getting traffic from these hacked sites and the $$ it brings might make it hard to do so. :rolleyes:
 
WTF

Silence signifies guilt... cmon...

casinotop-online.com

ranks number 4 for online casino now

all its links are from hacked sites that the owner will never know about as they are cloaked.

check this link

222.accuratechemical.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage

using this tool

best-seo-tools.net/cloaking/

you will love what you see.

normal affiliates are done if this is left alone.

you will never see a great site ranking anymore, just this type of crap.

wake up people, your livelyhoods are about to disappear.
 
Thats it.... I quite !

Its become a game for black hat artists and operators only.

Gone are the good quality sites that used to actually provide people with valuable information.

www.aftertherapturepetcare.com

hacked site

with links to

megaonlinecasino.co.uk

ranks top 10 in Google UK

Congrats on being completely toothless.

If its not WS, which it is, they are condoning the hacking of our industry.

Not a peep from them.

Casinomeister. You should ban them, what are you waiting for ?

I hope you all enjoy feeding off the scraps.
 
Megaonlinecasino.co.uk is now down. Whats up with that?

Domain name:
megaonlinecasino.co.uk

Registrant:
barry hull

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

Registrar:
Mesh Digital Limited t/a Domainmonster.com [Tag = MONSTER]
URL:
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Relevant dates:
Registered on: 20-Apr-2013
Expiry date: 20-Apr-2014
Last updated: 20-Apr-2013

Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.

Name servers:
ns1.nameme-now.co.uk 76.74.206.152
ns2.nameme-now.co.uk 107.6.41.183
 
So I found out from another forum who one of the guys are that's using blackhat methods to funnel traffic. I thought the guy is ethical but it seems like he went bad, his name is Chris Fenton, he runs .gamblinginsider.ca, lately he's been throwing a lot of one pager sites and redirects on the market. Most of his sites look the same, just to mention a few: canadaonlinecasinocasinos7.com/, canadaonlinecasinocasinos2.com/, canadaonlinecasinocasinos.com/ (and a bunch more) which all redirect to canadacasinoreview.com (one page site).

One of my my friends actually emailed him about it and the next day he removed his Google profile from the gamblinginsider.ca site as well as all the footers from his spammy sites (which stated gamblinginsider.ca).

Regards
 
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great discovery... I wonder if Meister will bother asking WS why they are paying him to do black hat SEO for them as everyone knows that gamblinginsider.ca is actually a WS affiliate site.
 
I see WagerShare has targeted Germay with their hacking

best-seo-tools.net/cloaking/cloakingview.aspx?url=http%3a%2f%2f333.accuratechemical.com%2findex.php%3foption%3dcom_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=189

All the sites that are being ranked in the cloaking have WS brands

I assume there is still no reply from them.
 
All the sites that are being ranked in the cloaking have WS brands

I assume there is still no reply from them.
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Yes they do. But seeing as the company behind Wagershare are first and foremost an SEO company ( According to the website for Win Technologies ), I would not be surprised if they had an indirect hand in this. At the very least they are condoning these activities, as they have the power to cut the head off the snake, by shutting this affiliate's account down.

Instead they allow him to continue to spam and hack sites, thus gaming the search engines and promoting their properties. Whilst withholding commissions legitimately earnt from webmasters such as myself. :mad:

BTW, the Palace Group hate the forums, both webmaster forums and player focused forums such as this one. I have been told this directly in an email from my old affiliate manager of Wagershare back in 2010.

So the chance of anyone from Wagershare even responding to this thread or any other is remote to say the least.
 
mercyme said:
best-seo-tools.net/cloaking/cloakingview.aspx?url=http%3a%2f%2f333.accuratechemical.com%2findex.php%3foption%3dcom_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=189

All the sites that are being ranked in the cloaking have WS brands
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I followed this thread from the beginning but never spent time digging deeper yet.

When checking into all the indexed pages for accuratechemical.com in google I get a different picture from the cloaked sites.

I see a mix of Pharmacy and casino sites, linking to URLs like

buy-propecia24online.com
viagra-online-ed.com
and many more

and

online-casinobonusplay.com
online-casino-ltd.com
and many more

On the casino sites, I see primarily GrandParkerCasino, LocoPanda, Onbling, ClassyCoin, Play2Win, MonaCasino, Diceland, Rome (but no WS property for me)

The pharmacy stuff links through to secure-canadian-ds.net which is part of a network (IceRX) run from the Ukraine (see www.legitscript.com/pharmacy/secure-canadian-ds.net)

Interestingly the Revenuejet brands (as well as Affactive/GoldVIP) are also run from the Ukraine and known for their hardcore blackhat involvement.

This could be coincidence though, I have no further links or information. just thought to share my observations.
 

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