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Why do Spammers spam useless spam

by webby0031
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A lot of my blogs get hit with these types of comments
T7IpKA vjaducymlrxl, pbydosucxtev, [link=http://wrelrjidkdth.com/]wrelrjidkdth[/link], htt://ciqestxksitp.com/

Total waste of time, invalid links and random letters

Is this some sort of Anti warrior who has been destroyed by google because he was using blackhat backlinking ? He has now got so p1ssed he just spams crap in anger to try and screw things over for everyone ?


Or is he some sort of want to be hero, spamming crap so webmasters learn to clear up their blogs ?

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#spam #spammers #useless
  • Profile picture of the author Karan Rawat
    This is not a Black hat SEO technique, This is called SPAM, Lots of intelligence is required to perform Blackhat.
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Tovey
      Because eventually, they will get a worthless back-link from some un-administered, poorly secured site.
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  • Profile picture of the author jakerobinsonvt
    Ya I've get those types of comments frequently on my blogs. I almost feel bad cause with the time they spend sending out junk they could actually make a thoughtful comment on a popular blog which would actually bring in traffic...
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    • Profile picture of the author Zakhar
      it's probably a test to see if the comment is accepted before they spam out links - a pretty dumb way though.
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      • Profile picture of the author Karan Rawat
        Originally Posted by Zakhar View Post

        it's probably a test to see if the comment is accepted before they spam out links - a pretty dumb way though.
        Yes it is totally in your hand that you want to approve their comments or not..!
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Originally Posted by webby0031 View Post

    A lot of my blogs get hit with these types of comments
    T7IpKA vjaducymlrxl, pbydosucxtev, [link=http://wrelrjidkdth.com/]wrelrjidkdth[/link], htt://ciqestxksitp.com/

    Total waste of time, invalid links and random letters

    Is this some sort of Anti warrior who has been destroyed by google because he was using blackhat backlinking ? He has now got so p1ssed he just spams crap in anger to try and screw things over for everyone ?


    Or is he some sort of want to be hero, spamming crap so webmasters learn to clear up their blogs ?

    What is your opinion on these posts

    They're using those 'words' like 'slugs' so they can search for them later. That way they can see what's being indexed and from where.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lanx
    man slug is such a good word to describe that, why has slug fallen from my dictionary?
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  • Profile picture of the author BingeSite
    What performance man said is correct but it's not really slug.
    This is how it works.
    1. Choose a string of characters that you won't get any result for in search.
    2. use a combination to make it specific e.g. braces so it's easier to find on google search
    3. include a coded link also in the same fashion. unindexed gibberish. normally bbcode is popular as many commenting systems accept it.
    4. run a bot who will scan IPs/domains and look for known postable urls like post.php comment.php etc. make the bot post the string
    5. wait 24 to 48 hours and run another bot to collect search results from google, yahoo, bing etc.
    6. The URL's returned are successfully botted sites.
    7. prepare the list and sell backlinks
    8. profit?

    then move to nigeria
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  • Profile picture of the author squadron
    Originally Posted by webby0031 View Post

    A lot of my blogs get hit with these types of comments
    T7IpKA vjaducymlrxl, pbydosucxtev, [link=http://wrelrjidkdth.com/]wrelrjidkdth[/link], htt://ciqestxksitp.com/
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    What is your opinion on these posts

    I suspect some sort of bot (maybe Scrapebox), looking for autoapprove blog pages. They set the bots to post unique character strings that would have no chance of being approved by a human, then in a few days do another pass to find which links have been approved. Then sell the auto-approve blog list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheila Ross
    This kind of comments are not manual comments. They are automated. Some comments are posted by them in test purpose. The comment you have posted in the thread, may be a test purpose comment to see if the software works or not. My wordpress blog gets hundreds of such comments per month. It is very annoying.
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  • Profile picture of the author RossIT
    For every 99 comments that are rejected there will be 1 that automatically approves it, and thus a backlink! must work or people wouldn't bother right? I agree they are very annoying
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    • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
      Originally Posted by RossIT View Post

      For every 99 comments that are rejected there will be 1 that automatically approves it, and thus a backlink! must work or people wouldn't bother right? I agree they are very annoying
      They resell the lists in the 'scammy backlink aftermarket.' Sort of a major time saver for junior league spammers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gareth Mailer
      Originally Posted by RossIT View Post

      For every 99 comments that are rejected there will be 1 that automatically approves it, and thus a backlink! must work or people wouldn't bother right? I agree they are very annoying
      And obviously you define "work" as the process of the comment being approved, rather than the value in the backlink itself, right?

      Mass-commenting is about the stupidest, most non-effective form of spam there is - utterly pointless and a plague on a planet earth. Anyone who uses scrapebox for this purpose ought to be barred from the internet for crimes against, well, me.

      #justsaying
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      • Profile picture of the author Bambu
        SPAM still works. Look at the SERPs and you might learn a thing or two. Yes, it might not prop a site up for long (a few to several weeks), but you can bank while it does.

        There are some niches that you will not be able to compete in unless you spam the hell out of the internet.

        Originally Posted by Gareth Mailer View Post

        And obviously you define "work" as the process of the comment being approved, rather than the value in the backlink itself, right?

        Mass-commenting is about the stupidest, most non-effective form of spam there is - utterly pointless and a plague on a planet earth. Anyone who uses scrapebox for this purpose ought to be barred from the internet for crimes against, well, me.

        #justsaying
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  • Profile picture of the author noobsaibot
    usually it happens when links to blogs fall into a base of forums for xrumer
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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    People do spam for a reason. They do get some benefit from it. Also they are just interested in getting backlinks and don't bother about where they are getting links from.
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