Did site get spammed

[brad nichols]

What the ropcon??

Brad

 

[allenrichards1]

Sure looks like it.

 

[Walt Barney]

Sure looks like it.

Ah sh&& looks like it

 

[timothy johnson]

I think this just happened a week or so ago! I guess we can't blockit someway.

 

[Hydro Junkie]

I've run a couple of these posts through a translator program and posted the translated text below the Russian text used by the poster. It's spam, big time. Looks like it's time for Tom and Don to get out the "scrubbing bubbles"

 

[JimZaremski]

it's "search engine optimization" (SEO) spam. people will spew these posts all over blogs and message boards with the goal of getting the site they're spamming for higher rankings in Google or other search engines.

pain in the ass.

 

[Hydro Junkie]

You could be right Jim but, somehow, I doubt it. Since the posts were in Russian, one would think they came from somewhere in the former USSR and, if so, I doubt they would really care where IW fell in the search engine rankings.

 

[Joey Jones]

You could be right Jim but, somehow, I doubt it. Since the posts were in Russian, one would think they came from somewhere in the former USSR and, if so, I doubt they would really care where IW fell in the search engine rankings.

I'm pretty certain it's not a *real* human. It's most certainly a bot (or program). It just crawls the web looking for sites that it knows how to easily exploit. That's why you see so many posts by it. It's automated, it doesn't care what the site content is....It's pretty common, unfortunately.

 

[JimZaremski]

You could be right Jim but, somehow, I doubt it. Since the posts were in Russian, one would think they came from somewhere in the former USSR and, if so, I doubt they would really care where IW fell in the search engine rankings.

it doesn't have anything to do with IW's rankings. one of the things Google's algorithms do is put a site higher up in the search results if it has a lot of other sites linking to it. so some website (Russian in this case) has people/bots spamming links to their site on message boards and blogs. Google crawls the web, finds a bunch of sites linking to the shady Russian site, and the shady site becomes more prominent in google's search results.

at least, that's the theory.