SEO Hacker Prediction

2008 will be the year that hacking and search engine optimization (SEO) collide in a major way. By the end of the year, a nontrivial fraction of blackhat SEO will involve illegally hacking sites for links or landing pages. One webhost will get a significant black eye as hundreds or thousands of customers’ websites are hacked. The growth of illegal-blackhat SEO will leave traditional blackhats with a difficult choice: risk doing something illegal or sit out.

Would you notice if a strange link appeared somewhere inside your website?  How long would it take you to see it?  Hacking is a reality for everyone in our industry at one time or another but this is one that could be difficult to detect.

Matt, why would you use your fame to seed an  idea like this?