A new kind of spam?

Posted by David N. Welton Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:25:00 GMT

Lately, I've seen multiple comments like the first one here:

http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2008/03/09/bypassing-androids-resources#comments

It seems like spam, in that the comment is kind of off topic and irrelevant. However... it doesn't link to obvious spam topics like viagra, porn, etc... and nor does the actual site that it links to. Or it doesn't seem to at least.

Just someone trying to promote their site, or is there a trick to it?

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  1. Andy Wingo said about 1 hour later:

    Well, the message was almost certainly produced by a bot. Could be that they plan to work up some google juice and change the site later?

    On wordpress, this kind of behavior is even more senseless, as the default filters tag commenter urls with rel=nofollow. But it seems that your bloggy thing doesn't do that -- perhaps it's not worth it anyway...

  2. Ian said about 5 hours later:

    I get them on my site as well.

    I still have no sense on what their point is either

  3. Lloeki said about 5 hours later:

    maybe a spam bot doing some sort of clever keyword-in-context+link flooding for abusing googlebot and raising results somewhere.

    as for the spammer guys, they seem to be extremely stupid (like trying to bruteforce email addresses) yet sometimes they pull out some clever trick, which immediately fail due to some bogus reasoning at some level.

  4. Karl Lien said about 18 hours later:

    I believe it's for indirect link back. I don't get into the SEO stuff but if somebody can validate what's going on it's pretty sneaky.

    You can click on the spammer name in the comment post and get a link to their home page. Home page is filled with stuff that just doesn't seem real but doesn't raise suspicions too much. There's also a blog roll to other blogs of a similar nature. Some of those blog posts have links to sites that could valuable to SEO. If one of them goes up in the Google rank high enough they'd probably build the site or sell the domain.

  5. Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò said 2 days later:

    I have the same kind of spam on my blog (also Typo-based), with the same username, too. They seem to choose only yahoo email addresses, and they come from a wide range of IPs. They also seem quite persistent even if they change the name every three days or so.

    If you find a decent way to keep them out, I'd like to know.

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