Spampress - Blog Spamming or Spam Blogging
Wow, I know I don’t blog a lot (talk about understatements) but this blog sure does receive a lot of comments. 2½ months of not looking at DutchSEO generated over 8000 spammy comments. That’s more than a hundred a day… Akismet handled the most of the comments, only a few actually made it to the ‘live’ web site. But still, obviously there’s a couple of people putting serious effort in blog spamming. Is it that effective?
It probably is, there are hundred of thousands of Wordpress web sites that don’t have Akismet installed. I once won a casino-related SEO contest just by blog spamming millions of sites. I actually ended up taking 8 of the first 10 spots so yes, it’s really effective.
Earlier this week I was thinking of another way to use Wordpress as a spam tool. Re-writing Wordpress URL’s is relativily simple, how about re-writing every word/category to it’s own sub domain? With the use of a couple of RSS feeds you could generate thousands of sub domains in an instance. Re-using the feeds of your first spam blog you could generate a network of linked spam sites in a matter of minutes. It’s do-able, but what would be the impact?
Let’s say you have the ability to use wild-card sub domains. Then all you need to do is get Wordpress to re-write internal links to http://blog-post.category.example.com. With a little more effort it could be even better: http://silly.blog.post.category.example.com. Feed each install a couple of thousand messages through RSS and you’d have the ultimate killing scraper. Re-feed the RSS messages from the first scraper into the second, aggregate the feeds from the first and the second in your thirth scraper and you have an entire network.
Sounds crazy, but it would work. Easy, actually. Who’s up for a little coding..?
February 13, 2008