How to spammers find our sites so quickly?
I know that blog spammers need to stay ahead of the game, etc, but I do wonder how on earth they find my sites so damn quickly?
With my Diet blog, I received my first spam (or pingback) within 24 hours of the site going live and today, after linking for the first time to the poker community site that I have been building, I now have two new spam blogs!
How on earth do they find them? I wonder if they go crawling through sites such as the a4u or if it’s all automated?
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:48 am
James,
Assumming you use Wordpress on your other blogs, there is a ping feature which notifies blog search engines whenever you post a new blog post. Spammers then just need to go through the e.g. Technorati blog search in the niche they need and find your blog post in couple of minutes after it has been published.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
They are clever in one sense. But why do the same spammers come back again and again offering the same product? Now I associate their product with spam and they haven’t got anything out of me for it.