Google’s John Mueller offered insights about how Google treats a popular black hat link building trick. His answer deflated the benefits of the strategy and also gave insights into how Google’s ...

In a Google Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller answered if redirecting affiliate links was a bad practice. He answered the question then offered what he felt was a better way to deal with ...

Google Maps, a tool search that marketers frequently use to support campaigns, has been hit with another scam. Scammers have been abusing a feature in the Maps API, the link-shortening service on ...

Attackers are using YouTube redirect links, whitelisted by various security defense mechanisms, to evade detection. Researchers are warning of an increase in phishing emails that use YouTube redirect ...

In January 2021, the antifa.com URL began redirecting users to whitehouse.gov, the official website for the newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden. Previous versions of the redirect link pointed ...

Spammers are abusing ill-configured U.S. dot-gov domains and link shorteners to promote spammy sites that are hidden behind short links ending in”usa.gov”. Spam purveyors are taking advantage of ...

A website can lose not only visitors but search engine rankings as well if the search engine is not able to follow URLs to that site. It is therefore essential to get the redirects correctly in place.