Tag Archives: Malicious

What to do About Spammy Links from “Malicious Domains”

What to do About Spammy Links from “Malicious Domains”

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about what to do about spammy links. The links and a subsequent “penalty” coincided with the date of one of Google’s 2021 spam updates. Mueller provided guidance for this specific situation. Spammy Links and Correlations The person asking the question related that spam sites were linking to non-existent pages and triggering a 404 response. Google Search Console may alert publishers to 404 error responses but that in itself is not a… Source link

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MONITORAPP’s Malicious URL Analysis Engine Now on Google’s VirusTotal

ONTARIO, Calif., Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — MONITORAPP announced that their malicious URL analysis engine (https://aicc.monitorapp.com), AICC (Application Insight Cloud Center) is now on VirusTotal (https://www.virustotal.com), owned by Chronicle – a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (Google). VirusTotal is a global threat analysis service, which operates under the support of Google. It detects and analyzes malicious URL using AV/Website Scanning/Sandboxing engines, which uses various global… Source link

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