The volume of trackbacks and comments on my blog has recently increased. It’s not a reaction to my incisive technical commentary, nor is it the league of goths and Stargate SG1 nerds who regularly post in order call me a lamer.
The spammers have returned and this time with more sophisticated spambots which are capable of eluding the first generation of Wordpress anti-spam plugins I installed two months ago. I’ve just upgraded my spam-fighting tools, and I am curious to see how effective the spammers will be against a combination of anti bot techniques.
In the meantime, I wonder what it is that the spammers are hoping to gain; They are using some of the most advanced blog spamming techniques to advertise some of the most ludicrous and easily filtered-out websites. These consist of pages of computer generated gibberish. I expect that they are designed to draw traffic away from Google, however since all these computer generated sites share the same structure and run from a small number of IP addresses, Google will have no difficulty in blacklisting all of them.
I cannot work it out; A great deal of effort has gone into running a spamming campaign, but without any obvious payoff, and a strategy so fatally flawed as to render it not worth bothering with in the first place.
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