Archive for March, 2006

Hidden text no no’s

Posted in Spammy Content on March 20th, 2006

Often when I’m explaining keyword density to clients, they come up with the idea of adding hidden text to their pages. Usually I then have to explain that it isn’t an orginal idea and it probably isn’t a good thing to do. Anyway for those of you who are a little slow to catch on here are a couple of recent examples from Google blogger Matt Cutts of websites caught out for gaming search engines with hidden text.

Test before you send.

Posted in Link Exchange on March 16th, 2006

If you really must use link exchange software, then it pays to send yourself a test email just to check that it is working. The credibility of the email below is destroyed because the placeholder [Name] wasn’t substituted with a domain name. How can people believe that your request is sincere if the email is obviously created from a templete?

Hello ********,

I recently visited your Site http://www.[Name] and really liked it. It is very professional, well designed and easy to navigate.

The content of your site is also very relevant to the site I manage: http://www.*******/

So, I am intrested for link Exchange with your site.

How not to market SEO

Posted in Losers on March 16th, 2006

There is a great thread on the Highrankings.com forum about the tactics some SEO’s will use to get customers. In the case in question a cold caller used questionable techniques (inc. bordering on blackmail) to try to sell their services.

Moronic linking

Posted in Directory Submission on March 14th, 2006

This is a great example of what not to submit to someone’s links page.

The website http://www.drugs-kingd0m.info
http://www.jewelry-kingd0m.info
http://www.piercing-kingd0m.info has been submitted for listing in the ****** website

http://www.drugs-kingd0m.info
http://www.jewelry-kingd0m.info
http://www.piercing-kingd0m.info
www.jewelry-kingd0m.info
All kind of jewelry!
Martin
naalleysoft3006@yah00.c0m

IP: 70.86.44.202

Dumb dumb dumb dumb

Posted in Comment Spam on March 14th, 2006

I wonder whether the SEO’s at World Jeevansathi are ‘all there’. Not content with spamming dating site profiles they’re also engaging in comment spam. Shame. Shame. Shame

A new comment is waiting for your approval

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Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=203.98.117.84
Comment:
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When “tell a friend” goes bad.

Posted in Spammy Content on March 5th, 2006

Our personals website ‘ezifriends’ received an invitation to join Gazzag.

Hi,

farhad_*****@yahoo.com invites you to join his/her friends network at GAZZAG. GAZZAG is a community that connects people through their friends and friends of friends.

GAZZAG helps you to keep in touch with your friends, meet new people through your friends, meet old friends, see how your friends are connected, remember your friends birthdays, publish your photo albums, publish your blog, join communities that share your interests and organize events.

Exclusive: In Gazzag you can call anyone who is online to chat!

Join GAZZAG now to connect to farhad razavi and and all his/her friends. When you finish your sign up Invite your friends to join you!

Click on the link below to join farhad razavi friends:

Join Now!

http://www.gazzag.com/*************

So we did. Not that we really want to spam their site as such - and after all, we were invited

This is how your profile will look to: everyone

Profile headline:
The only reason we filled this in is because someone invited us
Personal presentation:
ezifriends.com is a website for people looking for new friends.

Let’s see how long it takes till they kick us..

Omni Business Solutions at it again

Posted in Directory Submission on March 3rd, 2006

Oh no, looks like our friends in Utah are at it again. Look guys (or girls or whatever it is you are) , it is quite simple really - the sooner you start abiding by our submission guidelines the sooner we’ll stop rejecting all your directory submissions.

The website Country Memories - Perfect Holiday Gifts for Everyone’s Country Decor and Western has been submitted for listing in the Australian Dating Guide website

Country Memories - Perfect Holiday Gifts for Everyone’s Country Decor and Western
www.lar-a-may-countrymemories.c*m
Perfect holiday gifts for every occasion and for every
hard-to-buy-for friend and family on your list. We offer a new and
unique holiday gift item that has some of the most funniest sayings
relating to all of our wonderful life experiances.
D**** L***
linksmanager@omnibizsolutions.c0m

IP: 68.187.77.166

Contact form spam #2

Posted in Contact form spam on March 3rd, 2006

Of course 90% of our contact form spam stopped the moment we installed the following php function into our form to mail scripts. That at least will give you a good idea of the industries that do this sort of thing.

function checkspam($variable)
{
$poowords = array("casino",
"penis",
"gambling",
"poker",
"escort",
"pharmacy",
"generic drugs",
"cialis",
"viagra",
"bcc:",
"content-type:",
"to:",
"cc:"
);
$variable = strtolower($variable);
foreach ($poowords as $val1) {
if (strpos($variable, $val1) !== false) return "true";
}
}

Contact form spam

Posted in Contact form spam on March 3rd, 2006

Haven’t seen one of these for a while. As far as I can remember our contact form doesn’t say “Please send us promotions for your stupid mobile content affiliate program” - and that is why this is spam..!

Support - Webmaster enquiries
Hi, Convert Each Registration to GBP £5.00, No purchase required! We would like to invite you to join our mobile content affiliate program for free. Place our banner on your website and we will pay you GBP £5.00 per user registration directed from your website. If you are interested please apply at: http://affiliate.ringcat.c*m/cgi-bin/app.cgi?m=Agent& c=ShwRegisterFrm&AgtId=3666 Thank you! Regards, *** **** Ringcat AgentNet http://www.ringcat.c*m —————————————————————— Question or suggestion submit ticket at: http://affiliate.ringcat.c*m/cgi-bin/app.cgi?m=Agent&c=ShwContactFrm ——————————————————————

- IP address 202.179.126.65

What a load of craps..!

Posted in Link Exchange on March 2nd, 2006

Submitting your website to unrelated directories is a really good way to boost your page rank… Not..!

The website All Craps has been submitted for listing on LMS Talk

All Craps
www.allcraps.**.**/
You long search for a good game site? Our congratulations, you have found that that searched. On our site a huge choice of games. It is a lot of helpful information, history, tactics, and rules. Pleasant game and good mood
A***
*****@yahoo.co