Comments on: Smarter referrer spam?

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

On your vault0 idea, I think I understand what you’re trying to do, and I think it sounds rather cool too. Been looking around that forum and V52 for an “About” page or and FAQ – could you point me to one?

Oh, and I thought you’d probably want to know (if you don’t already) that your registration page is broken – missing page maybe?

And thanks for your compliments! That’s really cool that you like it, even cooler that I converted you to Mozilla (I did, right? Hmm, I wonder how many I’ve converted, if any besides you, with my ramblings).

Damn, I knew I should have used an alias – now V52 will show up as ‘linked in a Referrer Spam Blog’ in Google ;)

Heh. Just in case, if it is a problem, I’ll go remove the V52 link.

By: Philip Luppens

Philip Luppens — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Indeed, google will rate domains higher when it finds more links to and from it to other sites. By making sure their links appear on this site, their page rank will increase (weither it’s by appearing in the refer list, or in the comments), and for now, most of these sites are ‘almost empty and mostly, complete nonsense’.

Now, after some time, when the page rank is sufficient, the domain changes its content to something else, like a marketing/advertising site, an adult site, .. Since it has a high page rank, they hope to attract more visitors.

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Indeed, Philip.

Hmm… The webmaster of Vault52, are you? I like what you’ve done there! Big Fallout fan here.

By: Philip Luppens

Philip Luppens — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Damn, I knew I should have used an alias – now V52 will show up as ‘linked in a Referrer Spam Blog’ in Google ;)

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I’m honoured you like V52 – although I must admit I’m not working on it for the moment (working on a brand new project called ‘vault0′ (mfrpg – multiplayer forum rpg – if such a thing exists). It’s an attempt to create an asynchronous ‘fallout web-world’, with npc’s, items, combat, shops, .. (hmm, I’m not making much sense here, do I ?)).
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Back on topic: I really enjoy your blog. I’ve read it many times (coming from javablogs.com), and it made me switch to mozilla permanently. Great style, very readable, etc .. a LOT of people can learn from this. Keep up the great work !

By: Stephan Segraves

Stephan Segraves — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am not really understanding how that spam helps them at all. I am guessing Google will pick up the link and assign it PR? What’s the point of their spamming this way?