There seems to be something new going on with blog comment spam. It’s been hitting me here at SuperAff as well as creeping into a few other blogs.
Characteristics:
It’s not autogen spam, it’s a human being taking the time to comment in a way that’s applicable to the blog post (at least kinda/sorta)
They’re sneaking in [...]
I have a few web directories that are getting stinkier and stinkier to work with over time. Ninety percent of the submissions are the usual MFA, Amazon knock-off, auto-gen mass reprint article content, and every type of splog imaginable. And so on. But the site quality for submissions is getting WORSE as time goes on.
Where [...]
Since the BusinessWeek article came out several days ago, it seems the ’spies’ that are reporting incentivized parked domains are seeing a bit more success getting stuff shut down when they report them. The ringleaders aren’t too happy about it all though, and one is shouting out threats of Wiccan Retribution:
I HOPE YOU LAUGH SO [...]
Wow, this is exciting! Businessweek has a great article out on click fraud: Click Fraud – The Dark Side Of Advertising
Quote from Business Week:
That confidence may be slipping. A BusinessWeek investigation has revealed a thriving click-fraud underground populated by swarms of small-time players, making detection difficult. “Paid to read” rings with hundreds or thousands of [...]
Most people *freak out* when one of their websites is hacked. I burst out laughing.
One of my directories (NiftyShops) was hacked and all files deleted and replaced with this scary red glowing demon skull thing with spine tingling wooooowooooo music playing in the background. Courtesy of RoDhEDoR & Linux_Drox & Dr.Jr7.
I noticed it [...]
A little while ago I did a google search for – Find web pages that contain the term “superaff.com” – and came across some strange stuff towards the last few pages of results.
There are several websites that are doing something weird:
“SuperAff.com” serps – Starting Page 5
Beginning halfway down the page (page 5 of serps), [...]
