Hurry up and delete this comment before someone sees it…hurry up..
]]>No, I delete comments that try to do something I don’t want to have done, like push a particular incest site up in SERPs, not comments that just make you look like a lackwit with too much time on your hands.
]]>Early this morning, someone left a couple of comments on my old Redirecting RSS redirection entry, with the name Rod Kratochwill and the URL, yep, you guessed it, http://radio.wblogs.com/0100146/ without an e.
That is clever. Alas, the page is already 404. And even finding out who’s behind this clever scam will have to wait, as whois -h whois.OnlineNIC.com wblogs.com
times out as the whois server is currently down.
Perhaps we need to revisit PGP-signed comments?
]]>Unfortunately, they aren’t doing it anymore, or not right now for the fake-Rod URL, but, before they switched to just the actual HTML for his blog, if you went to the URL that looks like it’s Rod’s blog, but is at the ”weblogs.com without an e domain” (which I now can’t say in my own comments since I blacklisted it) instead of weblogs.com, and viewed source (and put it in an editor with word-wrap), there was a ton of nonsense looking Javascript at the start, which your browser interprets and displays as something looking like a Radio weblog, but down below that, in the only part of the page that a search engine would see, there was nothing but ten links to porn. They comment on weblogs, leaving the weblogs.com-without-an-e URL. Careful people actually follow the URL to be sure it’s a real comment and not just spam, and see a weblog, so they leave the comment linked. Search engines crawl the comments, see a link, fetch the page, give it higher PageRank, and it transfers that PageRank on to the porn.
]]>asdf dot wblogs dot com
I also saved the wacky stuff to a file in case it’s usefull to anyone.
Rod
]]>BTW, Radio/Manila have been relatively untouched by comment spam, until the last few days. So we’re going to be joining you soon, brother-in-spam-to-be. ;->
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