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How Now Brown Pau reports:
Not strictly referrer spam just yet, but someone with an IP in China just clicked through to my site from the location H:/2005 key words/hat/hatimports.htm. Sounds like someone's getting his linkfarm ready. ("Linkfarms" are those huge sites full of lists of links, usually auto-generated from search results, there to attract search engine bots and give the illusion of legitimate content.)...
Preemptive strike against referrer spammer. I noticed this spammer in my logs yesterday, but the domain was still unregistered -- an occasional strategy among spammers wishing to confuse reverse-DNS lookups. Well, it looks like someone else bought jagk.com before the spammer could, and turned it into an antispam resource. Domain "stolen?" Well, I wouldn't call it stealing, really; the guy bought it fair and square. I wonder how much a domain like that would fetch on eBay! ;
Also see here.
Here's what http://jagk.com/ says today:
I bought this domain to keep it out of a spammer's hands
Most likely you reached this site because of a link that appeared in your referrer logs. A new spammer tactic is to start spreading spam links before they register domains, to foil DNS lookups by anti-spammers. After seeing this domain pushed by a link spammer, I bought it before he could, and am now using it while I have it to spread the word about protecting your site from link spam.
(Oh, and mirror this content freely. This work is in the public domain. I may sell "jagk.com" in a few months.)...
Link Spammers are Evil And Twisted and Will Gladly Screw Up Your Site Just For Money
Link spammers roam the internet, posting unsolicited advertising for pornography, gambling, and drugs to weblog comments; machine-gunning trackback URLs with multiple pings; filling up your referrer logs with bogus links; and using up your website resources in the process, flooding your logs, consuming your bandwidth, even taking your site down. They are doing everything they can to fool search engines into thinking that you are linking to their junk, thus polluting your site -- and the rest of the web....
Your poorly maintained weblog may be a RED HOT SPAM MAGNET!
Did you jump on the blog bandwagon earlier on, only to forget about it a few weeks later? Or do you have comment notification turned off, and not care about what goes on in older entries? If your site is still up and running on old weblog software, the comment and trackback scripts are most likely attracting spam, using up your site's space and bandwidth, and polluting the rest of the web. You're part of the problem! Try searching your site for common spam strings. If you find spam in your comments or trackback sections, delete it, and follow the steps above to protect your weblog from further invasion.
These guidelines also apply for your referrer logs. If you're running public referrer logs, hide them behind a password, put a robots.txt in the referrer directory, and slap rel="nofollow" onto all links.
If you're not up to the task of keeping up with all this spam-related info, go with a centralized service like Blogger or Typepad or someone who'll take care of spam filtering on the server side. Today's web needs responsible and vigilant weblog owners!
If you want a wonderful example of how prevalent this stuff is, take the word "empoblog." Before I used it for my blog, I made sure that no one else was using it. Yet there is now a site that is supposedly devoted to empoblog - and the site creator doesn't even know what empoblog is. Here's what Google says:
Empoblog information and reviews updated daily.
Try us for the best in empoblog, with many suppliers and product categories
covering empoblog we stand out above the rest. Whether ...
empoblog.khs.co.uk/ - 15k - Feb 24, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
Empoblog
For up to date information on Empoblog, Empoblog reviews, top
Empoblog suppliers,and related Empoblog subjects... ...
empoblog.ctr.co.uk/ - 30k - Feb 24, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
chicago ticket brokers all star game 2003 comiskey
... The baseball game ... Ontario Empoblog. ... October 2003 November 2003 December
2003 January 2004 February 2004 ... going to be a star' on the air, and it ... ...
www.vertikal.ca/chicago-ticket-brokers-all.html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
Severance Tool
... Other Product ... Carbide inserts. SEVERANCE TOOL. HSS & carbide rotary cutting
tools ... http://www.mts-online.com/products_c_t.htm Ontario Empoblog ... ...
www.employeeterminationguidebook.com/ resource1/7/severance-tool.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
For me, this is merely funny at this stage.
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