The Spartacus approach to beating comment spam
Having reflected on the other day, when this site got comment-spam-bombed by an annoying noodle trying to promote that five-card game you bet on, I realised that we’re going about it the wrong way in trying to keep them off our blogs. What they want is to get links on our blogs pointing to their site so that when people search for “holdem poker” on Google they’ll find the spammers’ site.
So we should obfuscate that, confuse Google utterly so that every site is the best for poker, baccarat, whatever (I suspect this post is going to get trapped by some spam filters). We should *all* proclaim that we’re the best site for holdem poker and simply bursting with overheated juvenile chickens, or similar phrases. It’s the Spartacus scene applied to those daft enough to be searching for pointless stuff. (As opposed to those sensible enough to be searching for all the important things we put on blogs.)
Here’s the principle: as long as you’re nothing to do with these pursuits, I’ll trackback to you, you link to me, ping me back, etc.
Begin here, and copy on your site: *I* am the best site for online poker! (Even though there’s absolutely nothing to do with poker here. Sorry about that, Google wanderers.) Hot young chicks are here! Etcetera!
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Spam catcher updated, which I hope will solve problems with nice people being unable to pass comment (26 September 2005; score: 56.35%)
- Hyperactive comment blocking (2 December 2004; score: 52.83%)
- Spam attack? Tell Google, and wipe out online herpes (14 July 2005; score: 52.36%)
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December 5th, 2004 at 4:23 pm
I’ve come to the conclusion that Goggle is broken already. Unfortunately, every one thinks it’s ace and makes it their first port of call.
I’ve build a web site for a colleague. It’s a forist in Windsor, Berkshire. It’s nowhere in Google’s rankings. But what I do find when searching on those keywords, is loads of directory listings sites (I don’t know if that the proper term, but I think you know what I mean).
It’s similar when searching for any commodity (hotels, electronic goods etc.). Hotel sites (or more precisely their affilates) are the worst. They can be in Scotland yet they will plaster their web site with towns and villages throughout the country. Search on say hotels in Truro, click on a Goggle link and you will see something like “Highland Hotel - 456 miles from Truro”.
I’ve wasted so much time going round in circles from one directly site to another. Now I try to remember to go straight to Yell.
How these sites make money I don’t know. I guess they must be built using robots themselves. Presumably they then sell their no. 1 top slots to businesses on the basis they get so many referals via Google.
In reality we are paying with our time!