Comments on: A spammer’s playground

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:11:01 +0000

I agree. Advertising revenue is what fuels this problem. Take away the money, and the problem should go away.

Google has another product that encourages anti-social behaviour on the Internet – “Google AdSense for Domains” encourages people to squat on domain names that they are not using.

To truly follow their motto of “do no evil”, Google would drop their AdSense for Domains product, and police the sites that run Adwords more actively.

Cheers,
Stu.

By: Rob Page : NH Website Design

Rob Page : NH Website Design — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:34:17 +0000

There’s a lot more people that are spamming that don’t even realize it, they are just doing what they are trained to do. Internet marketing is basically just one large exploitation of one loophole or another. There are very few people who do it legitimately.

Great rule of thumb here – “any web site that allows users to perform an action – you need to monitor it for signs of abuse.”

sort of off topic -

Thank you guys for this great plugin. I was looking at the stats and 99% accuracy is pretty crazy, and the best part is I am never alerted that I have spam… it just – goes away!

Rock on!

By: Windous

Windous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:53:35 +0000

Yep, it’s true. Google Adsense is actually financing those hooks. And they love WP, use many powerful tools for grabbing and publishing content, like WPT.

By: Trevor Carpenter

Trevor Carpenter — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:11:29 +0000

Would it be inappropriate for a plugin developer, who discovers spammers using their plugin, to add a new feature, and update the plugin. That would cause the users of the plugin to more-than-likely update.

If these spammers updated, and the new feature added the ability to spam-the-spammer, we could be in for a sweet spam war!

I’m just suggesting an alternative method of offering up to a spammer some of their own medicine.

By: Devin Walker

Devin Walker — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:28:34 +0000

These so-called ‘Black-hat SEO consultants’ are nothing more than a bunch of thieves. Why give them credit and call them anthing more than spamming punks?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:24:03 +0000

Sad fact is, that these rogue copycats are largely funded by Google AdSense, and Google shows little intention to shut down affected AdSense account to dry them out. From my own experience, DCMA AdSense complaints seem to either vanish in the GOOG haze or hit a low-priority queue.