Nilesh.org Notes on technology and everything else

After all those email spams, pop-up, click-thru, pop-under campaigns,
all those 468×160px banners, the <center>400×400px</center>
screaming ads, those spamming rats have
come out with two new innovative ways of marketing on the Net: Comment
Spamming – Spamming a weblogger’s post with unrelated comments
more so for advertising or marketing. Examples: Waxy.org,
Kiruba(Kribs,
your archives, get them up!). And Referral Marketing
– publicising your site thru referrer logs. And both these are targeted
more towards webloggers than anyone else. That’s the matter of concern.
We already had the Weblogs.com directory spamming
incident. And now this. Referrer logs are getting blasted with
links to unknown urls. The poor weblogger tries to find out who
visited his site by visiting the url, only to find a porn-site popup.
Spammers are actually
minting money out of
this! Links – Wired
article, Torrez.net,
Blogdex,
Blogroots,
Kuro5hin
. Little did I know
earlier that all this was not for fun.

As Mo Margan has observed
– "…you can always tell when a particular technological
idea has taken hold by how it is abused". We have had
email spamming, netbios
spamming, weblog directory spamming, comment spamming and now
referrer spamming. What next? trackback spamming? Oops, did I mention
something? ;-)