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December 22nd, 2004 Posted in Blogging/Podcasting

Comment Spammers – the next in a long line of Internet idiots



Usenet news succumbed to spam long ago. Email was next. Now spammers have turned their attention to weblogs and comment forms. In order to increase search engine rankings you are posting advertisements to our Web pages. What you failed to understand is that bloggers are smarter, better connected, and more technologically savvy than the average email user. We control the medium that you are now attempting to exploit. You?ve picked a fight with us and it?s a fight you cannot win.


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  • I think it's actually both, Anna. Depends on the biz.
  • Long story short, it's all about Google. Google counts each link to a particular site as a "vote". The more votes (or links from other places on the Web) a Web page gets, the higher it appears in the Google ranking. Comment spammers try to hide links in the many many blogs, which "games the system" - making Google rank the spam link pretty high.


    So if a comment spammer is able to spam "No-Carb diets" on thousands of blogs, then when people Google "No-carb diets" the spammer's site comes up first on the Google results.



    Like email, it doesn't take many successes to cover the costs of the many failures.
  • I don't think it's the product distributors themselves who directly put up those ads. Rather they are given an advertising budget, and they choose the cheapest means via companies who do this for you.


    I could be wrong though..



    Nice blog
  • How does it work? Does anybody ever buy any of their cr*p? Is a disgruntled recipient of your unwelcome spam likely to prove a lifetime customer?


    I've never understood it, but they keep doing it, so I have to assume it pays.
  • jm
    dear mister jake,
    my name is mister oajkimetir from ouganda and i am offering you a business opportunity that you may consider...



    ah ah ah



    i am joking



    ciao



    jm

    paris
  • Now I actually feel happy when I recieve spam email. After all, it could have just cost the sucker who sent it 10$!!
    Check this out!!
  • i think we're going to start getting spam via cell phone text messaging soon!! arrgg!


    www.enemykombatant.blogspot.com
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