Spammers - Getting Others To Create Their Work
Saturday, November 2, 2019
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We've known of resourceful scammerspammers, for years.
One long known scam, pop amongst habitation / modest describe of piece of occupation concern weblog owners, has been to honour a badge for a "Most Excellent Blog" - too encourage the badge recipient to honour the badge to friends amongst "Most Excellent Blogs".
The recipients of the "award" would proudly display the badge on their blogs. The "Most Excellent Blog" badge, of course, contained a link dorsum to the scammers blog.
Recently, a spammer inward a unusual province hosted an "SEO Contest" for other weblog owners, where everybody participating was again, encouraged to pose the "SEO Contest" badge on his weblog or website. Again, the badge atomic number 82 dorsum to the spammers website.
Both examples of deviousness atomic number 82 to mazes of interconnected blogs too websites, all of dubious human relationship to each other.
Randomly connected blogs too websites are purposeless.
The blogs too websites involved had no existent argue for interconnection - other than each beingness owned yesteryear a gullible competitor entrant, or "award" winner. Meanwhile, the spammer sat there, watching his website bully amongst the readers, coming inward search of informative too interesting content - too seeing to a greater extent than spam.
The sometime weblog owners, participants inward the "SEO Contest", afterward report.
Long ago, nosotros had spider web rings. Now, weblog hops too traffic exchanges.
Long ago, when the Internet was merely a geeks paradise, 1 guy convinced one-half a dozen of his friends to link their websites to each other, sequentially, backwards too forwards.
When other participants joined, they would suspension too insert into the optic of whatever convenient link pair.
Blogger / Google has "Next Blog".
Google's version of a webring started every bit the good known "Next Blog". As the issue of blogs too websites grew to guess the footing population, people decided that they would prefer to entirely stance other websites that resembled their ain - too Google tweaked "Next Blog", to link the electrical flow weblog to other blogs of the same subject.
Blogs which derive traffic from schemes such every bit "Badges" too "SEO Contests" (and post their readers to the creators of the schemes) teach all the same 1 to a greater extent than type of righteous spam classification.
None of these schemes are useful, long term.
Folks, at that spot is no legitimate gratis traffic scheme. You teach traffic to your blog, from publishing informative, interesting, too unique content - too from improved search engine indexing.
Don't lose your blog, from following bogus advice.
One long known scam, pop amongst habitation / modest describe of piece of occupation concern weblog owners, has been to honour a badge for a "Most Excellent Blog" - too encourage the badge recipient to honour the badge to friends amongst "Most Excellent Blogs".
The recipients of the "award" would proudly display the badge on their blogs. The "Most Excellent Blog" badge, of course, contained a link dorsum to the scammers blog.
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Recently, a spammer inward a unusual province hosted an "SEO Contest" for other weblog owners, where everybody participating was again, encouraged to pose the "SEO Contest" badge on his weblog or website. Again, the badge atomic number 82 dorsum to the spammers website.
Both examples of deviousness atomic number 82 to mazes of interconnected blogs too websites, all of dubious human relationship to each other.
Randomly connected blogs too websites are purposeless.
The blogs too websites involved had no existent argue for interconnection - other than each beingness owned yesteryear a gullible competitor entrant, or "award" winner. Meanwhile, the spammer sat there, watching his website bully amongst the readers, coming inward search of informative too interesting content - too seeing to a greater extent than spam.
The sometime weblog owners, participants inward the "SEO Contest", afterward report.
Blogger deleted my blog! I postulate my blog, to brand a petty extra money!!But at that spot is no encouragement here, your weblog is gone. Blogger Policy Review can't distinguish the spammers from the victims - that would require conclusion of motive. To them, it is all one big spam weblog farm, inward an ingenious affiliate marketing scheme.
Long ago, nosotros had spider web rings. Now, weblog hops too traffic exchanges.
Long ago, when the Internet was merely a geeks paradise, 1 guy convinced one-half a dozen of his friends to link their websites to each other, sequentially, backwards too forwards.
Website H5N1 linked to Website B which linked to Website C ... which linked dorsum to Website A.The theory was that y'all could laid out from whatever indicate inward the ring, surf inward either direction, too stance each website inward the ring.
When other participants joined, they would suspension too insert into the optic of whatever convenient link pair.
Website H5N1 linked to Website AA which linked to Website B ... (and Website B linked to Website AA which linked to Website H5N1 ...)This technique was called a website ring. My showtime website was linked into a ring, called yesteryear its creators, "The Ring Around The World". Now, nosotros select "blog hops" too "traffic exchanges".
Blogger / Google has "Next Blog".
Google's version of a webring started every bit the good known "Next Blog". As the issue of blogs too websites grew to guess the footing population, people decided that they would prefer to entirely stance other websites that resembled their ain - too Google tweaked "Next Blog", to link the electrical flow weblog to other blogs of the same subject.
Blogs which derive traffic from schemes such every bit "Badges" too "SEO Contests" (and post their readers to the creators of the schemes) teach all the same 1 to a greater extent than type of righteous spam classification.
None of these schemes are useful, long term.
Folks, at that spot is no legitimate gratis traffic scheme. You teach traffic to your blog, from publishing informative, interesting, too unique content - too from improved search engine indexing.
Don't lose your blog, from following bogus advice.
