Spammers

[consumed with curiousity]

Does anyone know the answer to this? I saw some spam on a blog a while back, and it caught my eye because the keyword tag on the spam URL mentioned my town. I couldn't resist following the URL, and the spammer turned out to be someone I knew from school. Being naturally curious, I asked Google about "link:HisSpamUrl", to see if he was building up the massive backlinks he seemed to be looking for. There were no backlinks at all from the blog in question. I went back to look at a pageview of the blog pages, and there was his backlink embedded without any no-follow tag. I couldn't resist emailing him to say that his spamming was all in vain. He replied that Google was indeed indexing his backlinks and contributing to his site's pagerank, but that Google was "picky" about the links it revealed on a backlink search. He said that there were other secret ways to see the real backlinks, which he couldn't reveal. I am consumed with curiousity to know whether he was telling the truth, or whether he was bluffing. Can you help? Please!

Yes there are other ways to do that, from an SEO standpoint, its kind of a trade secret. Although he used a method of direct spamming, which is actually just a way to point to your site by e-mailing all contact in the contact list or those with a keyword which in this case is your town...

... auto spammers are easier to spot...

What is an auto-spammer? How do you spot them?

These are bots, and some are macros running automatically on a spammers server, they usually use the same method and links to run. It is setup by a human though. CAPTCHAs are good way to stop auto spammers, but CAPTCHAS fail on human spammers and sometimes auto scrapers can bypass a captcha. So it will have about 80% effectiveness. On the other hand the one used by other sites is called Akismet, this has about 90% effectiveness. I also used a method I shared here in webdigity before that is easy to implement and is about 85% effective...

[consumed with curiousity]

... He said that there were other secret ways to see the real backlinks, which he couldn't reveal. I am consumed with curiousity to know whether he was telling the truth, or whether he was bluffing. Can you help? Please!

Yes there are other ways to do that, from an SEO standpoint, its kind of a trade secret...

IMHO people who say, "I know the answer to your question, but I'm not telling because it's a secret", should be boiled alive.

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Well Yeah, I should burn then... lol! Anyway you can learn about it if you spend some time searching about it. A little tip, there are other search engines and site analytics that can trace this hidden backlinks...

... there are other search engines and site analytics that can trace this hidden backlinks...

Ahaa! Like as in Yahoo tells you about more backlinks than Google does, but they will be the same links?

Thanks. To show my gratitude, I'll let you off the boiling oil!

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yes, something like that... Try Bing if you really want to dig deep... lol!

imagine this world of internet without spammers?

how do you find it?

There will never be such a thing. You must understand how "the way of the spammer" works )

spamming sucks!

Without Spammers No Competition No Achievement

Without Spammers No Competition No Achievement

Lol, you think? How about honest competitions?

Jammers.

Just try and win the game.

Spammers will be around forever.  It does not matter what you do.  They will find a way to post no matter what it takes.

You can't appeal to a spammer's conscience. They never read what is on the forum.

no spam= no fun
spam = fun
but in the topics destinated to spam.

lolzzz... imagine world without diseases..
Doctors will suffer,,,

Similarly, those who are cyber heroes.. will have no values!!
They will be treated like normal computer operators!!

Spammers? They are at times helpful too. But they do put spice in the life of a forum.

No spammer? Come on, that is too boring!

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