Spamming for empty domain

Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 0:21 | Posted in Akismet, Blogosphere, internet, spam, Web tools | 2 Comments

Andre wirtes about his recent problems with referer spam. He has had enough of the stuff these last days to make him turn off the feature of latest referers in his side bar. He also wonders what would be the point of having that spam link to domains that do not exist.

I tried to post a comment to his post. The comment did not go through, though. Which is more than understandable because Akismet is a bit sensitive with comments that explicitely discuss the topic of spam. On top of that, my comment had a link in it which would have made it appear that much more suspicious. (Yes, Andre, I did remember not to enter the link in HTML )

In accordance with my earlier practice, I just post that excluded comment here:

I have occasionally massive waves of referer spam in my Manila sites. Each Manila site has a stats/referers page with those links. Pets (who is the admin of the server) has managed to block most of them, I am happy to say.

I have occasionally seen all forms of spam (mail, comments, trackbacks, referers, guestbook etc) to non existing domains. I read somewhere a theory about it but can not locate it at the moment. It would be something with building up Google rankings to future sites. I’ll try to locate the article later on.

I just hope I am going to keep that promise in mind and actually find the article. Hope is the last thing to be lost.

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