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Russian hackers, Wiffle Ball and Your Site

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Best thread title in some time!

Spammy link farms are fairly prevalent and it's not hard to scrape dealer website URLs and inject them in one swoop. It's probably what this is man.

Reminds me of that SEO scammer that linked to every dealer site and sent them an invoice. Many dealers paid it, was like a $50 / mo. charge. I think they got away with it in court, proved they provided a service. LMAO!
 

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A dealer marketing professional discovered a Russian wiffle ball website (Hess Field Wiffle Ball) backlinked to nearly 10,000 dealership sites during a link audit, raising concerns about widespread link spam. Respondents identified this as a common spammy link-building tactic where scrapers inject dealer URLs into low-quality sites en masse, comparing it to previous SEO scams where dealers were invoiced for dubious "services." The key takeaway is that dealers should regularly audit their backlinks to identify and potentially disavow such harmful spam links that can negatively impact SEO.

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