Jeber Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Microsoft's Research Strider Team has released a technical report discussing spam blogs and tools to do battle with them. Search engine spamming (or search spamming or web spamming [1]) refers to the practice of using questionable Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to improve the ranking of a website in search engine listings. Comment spamming (or blog spamming) is a form of search spamming in which random comments, promoting links to commercial services, are automatically posted to publicly-accessible forums, guest books, blogs, message boards, etc. See sample screenshots of URLs hosted on auto-review.net, webspawner.com, ripway.com, etc. being spammed at many open forums. There are now several commercial programs that automate such spamming tasks.To make their URLs look more legitimate so that search users are more likely to click the links, many spammers create doorway pages on reputable domains and use their URLs in comment spamming. When a user clicks on a doorway-page link in search listings, her browser is instructed to either redirect to or fetch ads listing from the actual target page, potentially operated by the spammer. See sample screenshots of doorway-page URLs hosted on mywebpage.netscape.com, tripod.com, geocities.com, angelfire.com, hometown.aol.com, groups.yahoo.com, etc. being spammed at many open forums. Also see an example of Google spammed by “freett.com†URLs.There are a lot of good examples and links. If you have a blog and have been assaulted with comment spam or fraudulent ad clicks, you might be interested in this report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 That is similar to what I had to remove on another forum where I admin and we permit guest posts (I'd love to change that). Someone came in and posted redirect script in about 20 messages overnight. They were silly enough to use html code rather than bb code so everyone could see the redirects and the poorly constructed posts. Needless to say the posts were removed. They all ended up at online gambling sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rons Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Thanks Jeber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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