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Well it looks like the Technorati favorites spammers that Darren and I posted about earlier have developed new ways to compete with the likes of Akismet…
Blog spammers have now made thousands of fake “proxy blogs” to be able to mass-friend one main blog to rank it in the most popular section on the Technorati homepage, ultimately sending the blogs lots of traffic and a few strong backlinks.
Pill spammers are now the 99th, 95th, 83rd, 10th, and even the 3rd most popular blog in the world! I really hope this new idea does not take off like the previous one did, as that would make the top 100 page completely useless. It seems like Technorati has done nothing to thwart these spammers so far and I doubt that they will do anything soon.
Spammers are and will always exist. I have received over 900 comment spams, generally from casinos and pharmaceutical companies looking to sell their [(via)gra and other p(ills)] (I’m not spelling the words so that I don’t rank in Google for any related long tail keywords and get millions more spam comments) .
Akismet does a great job at weeding out spam blog comments, and to keep up with the evolving antispam techniques, the spammers have started joining Technorati and adding top blogs as favorites. This allows them to show up on high traffic blog pages without having to be approved by the blogger.
I noticed this new evolution of spam only a few minutes ago when I was looking at John Chow’s Technorati Page and saw that 90% of the blogs on his “recent” favorites were promoting the link spam we all know and hate. Here is a screenshot:
The Technorati favorites (aka Fans) are not required to be approved, so it is quite a smart tactic for promotion. Hopefully Technorati will start adding more security features to stop things like this, because I do not want my listings to be filled with spam. I believe that once more spammers realize this is a free opportunity for more traffic, they will all join in on the bandwagon. Fighting and promoting spam is a never ending arms race… and I don’t think it will ever stop.
Update: Every single blog on the top 100 has been hit…
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