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), [...]
If anyone of us wanted to, we could be online media moguls that make our fortunes off popped porn, parasitic downloads, ripping scripts that hijack affiliate links, click fraud - yada yada.
I mean there are A LOT of lines one could cross if fast cash was all you wanted.
But there are a lot of [...]
Seriously, how any company, merchant or affiliate manager anywhere in the world ever thought that spyware was a useful, friendly neighborhood marketing method - should be shut down, locked up and tarred and feathered for good measure.
This is what we’re now reaping from the development and whitewashing of that fantabulous spyware crappola:
Massive identity [...]
In my blog post yesterday Who’s In Bed With Adware?, I was tempted to start writing about the actual advertisers who pay to use this crap, the people involved and whether they’d be held liable as well (hey they’re bankrolling this). Voila, a new article:
Will Spyware Be Spitzer’s Next Big Thing?
And don’t expect Spitzer to [...]
With the recent hubbub regarding adware, something occurred to me.
One thing I never understood is *why* some affiliate networks seemed to allow parasites to operate within their programs. Wouldn’t it have been in their *best interests* to keep the networks clean? Keep the majority of their affiliates as prosperous as possible (hey affiliates would be [...]
