Mark Williams-Prepare dinner gave an unbelievable presentation at SearchNorwich named Enhancing your website positioning with conceptual fashions. Fortunate for you and me, this presentation was posted on YouTube for us all to take pleasure in. It covers how Mark discovered an exploit in Google’s finish factors and was in a position to extrapolate from that attention-grabbing knowledge that aligns with the search API leak from earlier this 12 months.
Danny Goodwin already wrote this up on Search Engine Land and I included the video and this text in my e-newsletter days in the past, however it’s actually price calling out in a narrative right here.
On this presentation, Mark goes by means of alerts equivalent to website high quality scores, YMYL flags, consensus flags, click on age chance, quick details, bool, and a lot extra. He gained entry to 2TB of information based mostly on 90M queries, leading to a big dataset of over 2,000 properties utilized by Google to categorise queries and websites.
Aleyda Solis posted a extremely nice recap of this on X, click on by means of to learn all of it:
A should watch video presentation from @thetafferboy about Conceptual Fashions of website positioning and Google Exploits, sharing what he and his crew found by means of a Google endpoint:
* By manipulating community requests, the crew was in a position to translate the information into plain textual content, leading to a… pic.twitter.com/7EzV2RfaDl
— Aleyda Solis 🕊️ (@aleyda) December 15, 2024
Glenn Gabe additionally posted:
That is so good. I extremely suggest watching @thetafferboy‘s presentation. Mark and his crew discovered a Google endpoint and was paid $13K+ for reporting the vulnerability. However in true website positioning trend, they first obtained 2TB of information based mostly on 90M queries, and recognized 2,314 properties… pic.twitter.com/rcFDKARNAl
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 16, 2024
Lily Ray:
– calling out the faux authors on LinkedIn pulse and framing it as one other instance of Website Repute Abuse 😏
– Google’s endpoints for “consensus” and the way Google can decide whether or not content material makes an attempt to debunk consensus (a few of us have spoken about that for fairly some time,…
— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) December 16, 2024
At SearchNorwich, @thetafferboy gave a session referred to as “Enhancing your website positioning with conceptual fashions”. This session discusses a Google end-point that Mark found that permit to him analyzing 2,300+ Google properties and potential algorithm components.
That is extraordinarily much like…
— Chris Lengthy (@gofishchris) December 17, 2024
And so many extra.
This video is price watching absolutely.
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