An unusual form of comment spam
My post yesterday about older games seems to have attracted some attention - but in this case, of the negative kind. This morning I logged on to find a bunch of new comments - except they all looked somehow… odd. Turns out they were all from throw-away blogs (fake blogs set up to increase search engine rankings) that had done a “trackback” to my article. Some of them quoted just a bit of it (to make it relevant in Google’s eyes, I suppose) and one even went so far as to try and look like a legitimate link - except they used the wrong name! (They said “I’d have to agree with this post by Kevin B.”)
Very strange - and this is the first time I’ve seen stuff like this show up in the comments. Has anyone else ever seen such comment spam? Is this a new phenominon, or is it just old stuff that I have been lucky enough to avoid thus far?
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Keithius | October 26, 2007
By Daniel Nyström, November 13, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
hey.. found my answer.. heh.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback_spam
sry for bothering.. cheers!
By Keithius, November 14, 2007 @ 8:24 am
Interesting. Especially since I don’t have any Trackback links visible!