Why in the world would a link spammer consent to an interview?
He didn’t talk to a blogger, he talked to a newspaper reporter.
So why spam bloggers? This guy who drives a Jag and pulls down a 7 figure salary spamming blogs, says it’s nothing personal.
Published 3 years, 9 months agoAnd people like Sam are much more than competent. “You could be aiming at 20,000 or 100,000 blogs. Any sensible spammer will be looking to spam not for quality [of site] but quantity of links.” When a new blog format appears, it can take less than ten minutes to work out how to comment spam it. Write a couple of hundred lines of terminal script, and the spam can begin. But you can’t just set your PC to start doing that. It’ll get spotted by your ISP, and shut down; or the IP address of your machine will be blocked forver by the targeted blogs.
So Sam, like other link spammers, uses the thousands of ‘open proxies’ on the net. These are machines which, by accident (read: clueless sysadmins) or design (read: clueless managers) are set up so that anyone, anywhere, can access another website through them. Usually intended for internal use, so a company only needs one machine facing the net, they’re actually hard to lock down completely.
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Now THAT was eye-opening. Not a speck of remorse. Hmm…
Hatred.
All the more reason for people to use customizable comments. I’ve used dotComments for years and due to its facility of customization, it’s far more unlikely that blog-spammers can take advantage of it with any sort of that kind of ease that would make taking advantage of it worhtwhile. In the entire run of my blog, I only had a single piece of comment spam. And for all the complaining, custumization of my comment system was far easier than bringing the site to anything remotely resembling something that’s both standards-compliant and multi-platform/browser–compatible.
Hi The Dane:
That’s great if you like tinkering with technology. Many of us haven’t got the time or inclination. I think that is why blogging is so popular, the platforms make it accessable. And it’s one of those ‘build it and they will come’ routines for spammers.
One comment spam. Wow.:^)