Adam Kalsey reports on the latest way spammers try to boost their Google PageRanks (recall that PageRank works in part by measuring the number of links to a particular site; the more links, the higher the site should show up in a Google search):
"They find a site that doesn’t delete comment spam and fill it with links. Then they boost the PR of that site by spamming it in blog comments. Once the spam-friendly’s site has in increased Google ranking, all those spammed links in their comments will get a boost in rank as well."
He discovered this when he got a comment spam that pointed not to a porno or gambling site, but to a blog maintained, ironically, by the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (where you'd think they'd really want not to help out the spammers) - to see it, click on this Google results page, then click on the one with 001965 in the URL.
Back to CompendiumThat's pretty awesome. I've never seen that much comment SPAM on one page.
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin on July 30, 2004 04:24 PMAs long the blog is OK (related) I think its ok to post your ownlink. After all that how blogs are working...write something get something...
The word spamming is just too abused. :)
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