UPDATE: Since this post was first published, Google has said an algorithm change is pending to address the problem. Read more about that here.
Black Hat SEO Lucrative For Cybercrooks
Obviously, cyber crooks wouldn’t do what they do if there wasn’t any money in it. Thanks to some black-hat search engine optimization and a little rogueware (a.k.a. scareware), some are making almost $11,000 a day, according to FinJan’s first Cybercrime Intelligence Report for 2009.