Blog Spamming Making the News

[Affiliate]

Check it out. You guys now brought more attention to this industry. Just what we need!


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This article is on the home page of yahoo.

[FredB]

I am sick of it too. The sooner it gets shut down the better.


Spammers are flocking to new communications tools like moths to light, threatening to cripple these tools just as they are beginning to take off.


All the carriers have been hit with situations like this," said Nextel spokeswoman Mila Fairfax. "Each carrier has applied a filtering system to try to flag messages that appear suspicious to our system."


"We will be going after (spammers) to the furthest extent of law," Fairfax said. "Anything we can do, we will do."


And the sooner Goog figures out the algo better the happier I will be.

[Bob Popular]

Check it out. You guys now brought more attention to this industry. Just what we need!


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/200311 13/ap_on_hi_te/spam_s_new_frontiers_2 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031113/ap_on_hi_te/spam_s_new_frontiers_2)


This article is on the home page of yahoo.





Uh..."You guys". Based on your statement everyone except you spammed the blogs. Show me proof or STFU. Go ahead....make my day.

[Affiliate]

Proof of what? Go togoogle and search for a few meds. I'm not posting urls.

[andrew13]

as I said - it is shutting down by google already - main spam sites gone an hour ago from all datacenters for main 2 keywords (phen, viagra) ... just check it now smileys/smiley16.gif

[Affiliate]

Andrew, did google ban any of your sites for blog spamming? Seems like that would be the only way for google to stop it.

[andrew13]

affiliate, yes.And I'm very happy :) but the better way will be make it in automated way - and I suppose this will be done soon, as it is done with other types of spam, and I'm waiting for it as I have plenty clean great web sites, which are down becausemost first places are spam ...

[Affiliate]

Well that's an interesting way to look at it! I checked and did notice some blog spam sitesare out and some of the cleaner sites have moved up.

[phalaris]

Google has failed to effectively ban sites that have been spamming guest books for 1-2 years. Google has taken down the PR of a few hundred thousand guest books but most of the guest books with good PR are still there available for spam. I know people who used to spam 65000+ guest books hosted by dreambook.com every day but now it does not work because those guest books don't pass PR.


So, I am not expecting blog spam to go away for a long time to come. Only solution to this problem is 'if you can't beat them,join them'. I suggest we create a pool of money to hire a good programmer to write a blog spam script/programand create a database of blogs that can be spammed and then we spam the hell out of blogs.Creating suchscript+database will needa lot of time.I have a job with the boss too,So I can't spend much time on that but I'm willing to pay if someone is willing to bring in good programmer.


I'm sick and tired of competing withspammers pushing me down in SERPs and then lowballing too to kill my sales so I'm willing to go the distance to f**k them. I'm looking to hire a person for that anyway and I think risk-reward ratio is in the favor of spammers at the moment.


Do we have a solid programmer on the board or anyone willing to participate in the project?

[rxcdn]

Creating suchÿscript+database will needÿa lot of time.
Not hard at all. Creating a simple bot to crawl MT blogs is easy since they're almost all conencted! Run it a week...you'd have a database in no time.

A script to post to MT blogs is easy. Set it to auto recrawl a few days later. If the post wasn't deleted, post again. Hardest part is new IPs/proxys.

[iggy]

err...I still see tons of blog spam sites at the top

Phentermine-#2, #8, #9, #10
Viagra #4,5, 8, 9

All based 100% on blog spam.

[phalaris]

Looks like google got rid of a few spammers since yesterday. They all are not gone but many of them are gone for good, at least for the time being.


Now if I could get this owner of iprescriber.com to stop the insane lowballing then I'll be making good money once again.

[RxSponsor.com]

There is a lot people against spam but if you are trying to compete against the spammers, then what choice do you have as a business person? PPC??, what a laugh.


I have seen the power of being listed on the first page of Google for a particular drug and it's nothing short of awesome.


When you are making big $$$ it IS addicting and when people complain about spammers, the spammers get a great laugh all the way to the bank...

[redex]

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Don't Have a Blog?
Time to Start Blogging!
By Trudy W. Schuett
</TD></TR></T></TABLE>There's a brilliant solution on the horizon for bringing the movement to the mainstream. Because it requires little or no money, and minimal tech savvy, all of you who now send e-mails all over with little or no response; or don't have as much time anymore to update and promote your website can be at the forefront of a growing trend.


You probably realize that the e-mail marketing industry (which includes anyone who sends a newsletter or notices of any kind) is in the midst of a crisis from which it may never recover. Sp@mmers, sp@m filters, and nanny software, are just a few of the problems for anyone legitimately trying to communicate with a group of people. There's got to be a better way to get the word out; and right now there is.


I'm talking about blogs.


Last year about this time, I encountered a guy who opined that blogs were on the verge of dying out entirely due to boredom and lack of interest. At that point I hadn't had much contact with blogs. All I'd seen were a few daily diaries of negligible value to anyone beyond the author's immediate circle of acquaintances, and so took him at his word. Sometime over the intervening months, sp@m problems in e-mail started giving e-mail marketers major headaches, and professional journalists started using blogs to report, sometimes minute-by-minute, on the most recent Gulf War. This changed everything.


Both businesses and traditional journalists alike had begun looking at blogs in a different way. After all, blogs are really just a content delivery method. The identical technology can be used to deliver anything to readers. There's nothing in that technology that requires a blog to have any specific kind of content. Sure, it can be your lunch menus or a detailed reportage of housebreaking a new puppy, but it can also be an effective way for groups to communicate with their members. It can also be a source of news for subject matter that's not covered by traditional media, for whatever reason.


The major difference between a blog and a conventional website is that a website just sits there. Once you've got a website up, you then have to promote it. Website promotion is getting tougher all the time, because there are billions of them out there now, and they're not any big deal anymore. A blog, on the other hand, has the capacity to announce itself, and can keep doing that every time you update. Right now there are millions of people out there actively looking for blogs. For example, last night I was working on a new blog and had thirty people visit the test message overnight!


On the other hand, when I registered the domain for this same blog, the guy on the other end of the phone wanted to know what a blog was, so I gave him the thirty-second rundown. I find myself answering questions a lot lately, which is why I think it's important that the people of the movement be aware of this opportunity to address a far bigger audience than ever before.


Another thing that makes a blog such a good idea is that it doesn't require any specialized knowledge. If you can run word processing software like MSWord, then you know enough to start and maintain a blog. Once you've got it up and running, then daily updates take about the same time as writing and sending an e-mail. So rather than sending out a bit of commentary to a few people you regularly e-mail, with no assurance they even get to their dest

[Anni]

Yep I got that one too Redex, they're always just a little late huh?