SE Spammer Revealed

[neveremail]

This looks like a very promising move by the honest webmaster community

It would be useful to me (and so probably many others) if the whole concept of finding spam websites could be explained in the form of a tutorial and what actions should be taken. This tutorial could then be posted on other boards to to try and encourage involvement by many other webmasters.

I think this has idea has good potential to have a good effect on our SE rankings and therefore our wallets - while not solving the problem could put a nice dent in it. And one thing I can be sure of with spammers is thier after the easy buck - thier not prepared to do the hardwork - and this sort of thing makes them work harder.

[Bill]

A tutorial huh? What kinds of things should be in that tutorial, I wonder.

Definitely instructions on how to effectively use the spamreport page. I have a good general idea of the optimum ways to do this, but I'm not at all an expert on it. We'd want to ask for some input from the experts.

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I think the new patent's implications have already been understood by the spammers, and that we should expect to see distrbuted spam that is built more slowly- basically, instead of 1 site with a sudden 10,000 pages 10 sites with a sudden few hundred to a thousand pages.

This is one of the things I wa seeing as I was casually spam hunting. I think there was less spam than usual in the top tens, but it was fully occupying the results from #11 on down.

Here's some samples of what i think is distrubuted spam.

keyword + page scriptspamming I think by all the same guy.

http://hyperfree.com/hardcore/clips/...es-photos.html
site:hyperfree.com
Results 1 - 20 of about 38,500 from hyperfree.com
hyperfree looks to be a freehost so page count may not apply.

http://mpegs.b33r.net/sex-videos/fre...deo-clips.html
site:mpegs.b33r.net
Results 1 - 20 of about 883 from mpegs.b33r.net

http://prostrace.wftp.org/en/videos.html
site:prostrace.wftp.org
Results 1 - 20 of about 70 from prostrace.wftp.org

this might be the same guy, but also might not:

http://sraka.nerdcamp.net/2005/jul/9...cum-shots.html
site:sraka.nerdcamp.net
Results 1 - 20 of about 921 from sraka.nerdcamp.net


Another variety of spam with cloaking and redirecting:

http://www.cheneycowles.org/videos/f...l-cumshots.htm
site:www.cheneycowles.org
Results 1 - 20 of about 749 from www.cheneycowles.org
redirects to what looks like an igotguns page

[neveremail]

I think the tutorial should just cover how to identify spammers in SE results - e.g what to look for - and then once you have found it a detailed step by step tutorial on how to report it to google, yahoo etc.

Keeping it as simple and as short as you can so ppl will read it and will act on its advice.

Post it in a number of forums and I'm sure you would get a good number of ppl spending a few hours a month to fight the spammers. Something we would likely all benifit from.