BoingBoing has picked up my post at Geektronica on Blogspot spam blogs:
Spam blogs are phony weblogs designed to game Google’s pagerank system. They are automatically updated by scripts.Justin Baeder says: “Blogspot spam blogs have gotten a lot more clever in recent weeks. Today I found a one that purports to be maintained by a real person, but upon further examination appears to be run by a bot that posts links to actual news articles (complete with excerpts). The spammy links are hidden using CSS, so you can only see them when you try to leave a comment or view the source of the page.” Link
Watch my bandwidth crash and burn…awesome.
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Just how many blogs/web sites do you run, Justin?
(I’m assuming that you run Geektronica.)
About 20. I don’t know exactly. Geektronica is my first site that exists primarily to make money (though it’s also a lot of fun).
Just for perspective, I had an all-time high of 126 visitors in any of the 11 days Geektronica had been live up until yesterday. In the 12.5 hours since the BoingBoing link, I’ve had over 1000. Amazing.
I’m not sure which is more mind boggling, that you run 20 some web sites or that you don’t know exactly how many!