Spammers - Getting Others To Produce Their Work
Friday, December 12, 2014
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We've known of resourceful scammerspammers, for years.
One long known scam, pop amongst domicile / small-scale draw of piece of occupation organization weblog owners, has been to respect a badge for a "Most Excellent Blog" - as well as encourage the badge recipient to respect the badge to friends amongst "Most Excellent Blogs".
The recipients of the "award" would proudly display the badge on their blogs. The "Most Excellent Blog" badge, of course, contained a link dorsum to the scammers blog.
Recently, a spammer inward a unusual Earth hosted an "SEO Contest" for other weblog owners, where everybody participating was again, encouraged to set the "SEO Contest" badge on his weblog or website. Again, the badge Pb dorsum to the spammers website.
Both examples of deviousness Pb to mazes of interconnected blogs as well as websites, all of dubious human relationship to each other.
Randomly connected blogs as well as websites are purposeless.
The blogs as well as websites involved had no existent argue for interconnection - other than each existence owned yesteryear a gullible challenger entrant, or "award" winner. Meanwhile, the spammer sat there, watching his website corking amongst the readers, coming inward search of informative as well as interesting content - as well as seeing to a greater extent than spam.
The onetime weblog owners, participants inward the "SEO Contest", afterwards report.
Long ago, nosotros had spider web rings. Now, weblog hops as well as traffic exchanges.
Long ago, when the Internet was only a geeks paradise, 1 guy convinced one-half a dozen of his friends to link their websites to each other, sequentially, backwards as well as forwards.
When other participants joined, they would interruption as well as insert into the pump of whatever convenient link pair.
Blogger / Google has "Next Blog".
Google's version of a webring started equally the good known "Next Blog". As the issue of blogs as well as websites grew to gauge the Earth population, people decided that they would prefer to entirely thought other websites that resembled their ain - as well as Google tweaked "Next Blog", to link the electrical flow weblog to other blogs of the same subject.
Blogs which derive traffic from schemes such equally "Badges" as well as "SEO Contests" (and post their readers to the creators of the schemes) choke nevertheless 1 to a greater extent than type of righteous spam classification.
None of these schemes are useful, long term.
Folks, at that spot is no legitimate costless traffic scheme. You larn traffic to your blog, from publishing informative, interesting, as well as unique content - as well as from improved search engine indexing.
Don't lose your blog, from following bogus advice.
One long known scam, pop amongst domicile / small-scale draw of piece of occupation organization weblog owners, has been to respect a badge for a "Most Excellent Blog" - as well as encourage the badge recipient to respect the badge to friends amongst "Most Excellent Blogs".
The recipients of the "award" would proudly display the badge on their blogs. The "Most Excellent Blog" badge, of course, contained a link dorsum to the scammers blog.
Recently, a spammer inward a unusual Earth hosted an "SEO Contest" for other weblog owners, where everybody participating was again, encouraged to set the "SEO Contest" badge on his weblog or website. Again, the badge Pb dorsum to the spammers website.
Both examples of deviousness Pb to mazes of interconnected blogs as well as websites, all of dubious human relationship to each other.
Randomly connected blogs as well as websites are purposeless.
The blogs as well as websites involved had no existent argue for interconnection - other than each existence owned yesteryear a gullible challenger entrant, or "award" winner. Meanwhile, the spammer sat there, watching his website corking amongst the readers, coming inward search of informative as well as interesting content - as well as seeing to a greater extent than spam.
The onetime weblog owners, participants inward the "SEO Contest", afterwards report.
Blogger deleted my blog! I need my blog, to brand a petty extra money!!But at that spot is no encouragement here, your weblog is gone. Blogger Policy Review can't distinguish the spammers from the victims - that would require decision of motive. To them, it is all one big spam weblog farm, inward an ingenious affiliate marketing scheme.
Long ago, nosotros had spider web rings. Now, weblog hops as well as traffic exchanges.
Long ago, when the Internet was only a geeks paradise, 1 guy convinced one-half a dozen of his friends to link their websites to each other, sequentially, backwards as well as forwards.
Website Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 linked to Website B which linked to Website C ... which linked dorsum to Website A.The theory was that yous could start out from whatever indicate inward the ring, surf inward either direction, as well as thought each website inward the ring.
When other participants joined, they would interruption as well as insert into the pump of whatever convenient link pair.
Website Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 linked to Website AA which linked to Website B ... (and Website B linked to Website AA which linked to Website Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ...)This technique was called a website ring. My kickoff website was linked into a ring, called yesteryear its creators, "The Ring Around The World". Now, nosotros select "blog hops" as well as "traffic exchanges".
Blogger / Google has "Next Blog".
Google's version of a webring started equally the good known "Next Blog". As the issue of blogs as well as websites grew to gauge the Earth population, people decided that they would prefer to entirely thought other websites that resembled their ain - as well as Google tweaked "Next Blog", to link the electrical flow weblog to other blogs of the same subject.
Blogs which derive traffic from schemes such equally "Badges" as well as "SEO Contests" (and post their readers to the creators of the schemes) choke nevertheless 1 to a greater extent than type of righteous spam classification.
None of these schemes are useful, long term.
Folks, at that spot is no legitimate costless traffic scheme. You larn traffic to your blog, from publishing informative, interesting, as well as unique content - as well as from improved search engine indexing.
Don't lose your blog, from following bogus advice.