# WordPress Black Hat SEO dissected

DevFeed: [WordPress Black Hat SEO dissected](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/wordpress-black-hat-seo-dissected-35489.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/software/wordpress-black-hat-seo-dissected/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2013-09-17T20:00:29Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>), [Search engine optimization (SEO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/seo.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>)

Tags: [blackhat](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blackhat.md>), [infection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infection.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [seo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/seo.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

## AI overview

The article investigates hidden pharmaceutical links on a GoDaddy-hosted WordPress site. It explains how obfuscated JavaScript and CSS concealed the links from visitors and describes modified PHP, database content, and disguised files used to inject the material into infected sites.

## Source excerpt

Unraveling the tangled web of WordPress pharma hacks.