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benzinha - there have been worse things done to garner search engine

rankings.

In the case you describe, the individual is laying bait for the search engine spiders on higher ranked websites. What people are capable of dreaming up for web traffic is sometimes rather creative. I came across an individual that had developed a software program similar to a search engine spider. What it did was simply index all active domain names, then auto-click on the links it had collected to produce a referral link in the site owner's web statistics. Rather innocuous at this point but every web site owner exercising just a bit of diligence will click on their referral links to see who is indexing their site. The link took the site owner to a Viagra page, the success rate for actual page views versus other forms of spamming was exponentially greater. Sometimes you have to give the devil his due.

posted by gomedome on June 2, 2008 at 9:28 AM | link to this | reply

also, majroj leaves me hidden comments on ancient blog posts here.

He goes to an old, a very old post and then comments there, so that it shows up in my new comments page. Cute trick.

posted by benzinha on June 2, 2008 at 1:22 AM | link to this | reply

gome, I was told of an unethical and hidden way to get name hits for a

website and thus go up in search rankings.

This person went to old newspaper archives of stories that allow for comments to be made to the story. This person figured that two years back was enough to be ignored and unoticed by all visitors in the future.

That person then wrote that all who read this particular archived story might like to go visit his website, which sounded so similar to the tons of spammming porn that my guestbooks used to accumulate and make me insanely angry to find.

He went to two newspapers and wrote in their two year old archived story comments and one week later, went up to the first page of his site's search results on Google.

Just passing on irritating but helpful info.

posted by benzinha on June 2, 2008 at 1:20 AM | link to this | reply

benzinha - I think he has gotten the message by now . . . too funny

posted by gomedome on May 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM | link to this | reply

Wonderful work, gome, just wonderful. Wikipedia definition of

CLUELESS must feature his photo, or your replacement photos, with attached email.....wonderful.

posted by benzinha on May 29, 2008 at 6:23 PM | link to this | reply

TAPS. - a follow up email from him asking me to restore the images suggests

that he just doesn't get it.

Some people don't understand the implications of bandwidth theft. In this case he was using images from my developmental web space where I happen to be working on a project for a web client. His bandwidth usage has caused the over usage warning page to come up 3 times in the last week. That would be a terrible thing for a client to see, so far I have been lucky to avoid it but this fool is still acting like the wounded party.

posted by gomedome on May 28, 2008 at 8:31 PM | link to this | reply

Ariala - He emailed me again, this time with a different attitude

Asking me to please restore the images. It seems he missed the point, I'm not supplying him with image hosting but did say I would replace the image with a blank if he paid me $20 for the bandwidth he has already stolen. I am awaiting his reply.