Silent spamming
While just doing my regular news searches I found an interesting article on a topic know as “Silent spamming.”
Basically the way this works is by utilizing features most of us include on our forums and websites, like member website links in a forum and referrer links in unprotected stats folders. The target of these spammers is not people exactly; it’s search engines like Google and Yahoo!
Why would they do this? Well, it allows them to increase their PR, (Page Rank) which in turn makes their website show up even more often in searches. This can also be a big problem from our end as sites that link to spam sites, notably porn ones, are penalized by said search engines.
Since the article is a forum post many people have replied with solutions for the various methods of Silent Spamming, so if you think your website is at risk there’s surely a way to fix it listed in there somewhere.
