SE Spammer Revealed

RawAlex · 2005-06-30, 11:23 PM

Actually generating pages like that isn't all that hard. Combinations of PHP, htaccess, and a small database, and you can generate pages like a wild man. Googlebot is a little bit stupid when it comes to these things, and can often be tricked into pikcing up tens of thousands of pages very quickly.

The code you are seeing is secondary code, IMHO - it is what he is doing to some of the traffic when he gets the hit from google. You would have to immitate googlebot (spoof headers, whatever) to really see what the bots see.

He is doing too good of a job. Greedy moron!

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2005-06-30, 11:23 PM	#11
RawAlex Took the hint. Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,597	Actually generating pages like that isn't all that hard. Combinations of PHP, htaccess, and a small database, and you can generate pages like a wild man. Googlebot is a little bit stupid when it comes to these things, and can often be tricked into pikcing up tens of thousands of pages very quickly. The code you are seeing is secondary code, IMHO - it is what he is doing to some of the traffic when he gets the hit from google. You would have to immitate googlebot (spoof headers, whatever) to really see what the bots see. He is doing too good of a job. Greedy moron!