Thanks to Spam(mers) and Unidentifed robots!
August 3rd, 2007 by Shiva
The number of spams that I have to control has increased and the awstats reports for my website shows more unidentified crawlers and my email is flooded with more spams. And I am not grunting about it, it does prove oneway, if not exponentially - but the site is growing.
More number of adult, medicine, financial (loans), download videos, and just junks - all sorts of junkyjunk related spams. Some of them are very smart spams - general messages on comments, “good web styile (style)”, “great post”, “you have a nice blog going”, “I found very useful information - let me know if I could link yor (your) site” and more. These are all not one time messages and as a visitor just be careful and check your blog comments as well - I guess you know what I am talking, don’t you?.
Even in this site, you can check the comments and find that not many people use their names rather use the comment to market their website with seo keywords (I am aware and I am okay so far and I myself had given that clue (remember, these were used to spamdex Inktomi through guestbooks long back and lots of their site got banned too later), but if its used too much it becomes a blackhat technique :)).
Unidentified robots/crawlers and these spams are all inter-connected. They mostly visit to gather email address and then their primary job is to send junk out to email address and/or to reply to comments in an automated process. Though this topic may not directly related to Identity theft, will talk about that too in the next post - and that if I could think - its 1:30am EST now. Good night!
Cheers,
Shiva
Edited on Aug 6th: Removed certain black-listed words from this post. It is tiring to check on every single detail, but as how a doc had to be careful on his patient - same applies to any business one does. I totally forgot about the concept of black listed words - as how can I not mention when trying to write about spam? But then search engines punish it - and that is a proof that there is a long way to go for optimizing search engines itself!