Online Advertising
Spamvertising
Spamvertising is the practice of sending
E-mail spam, advertising a website. In this case, it is a
portmanteau of the words "spam"
and "advertising".
It also refers to vandalizing
wikis, blogs and online forums with hyperlinks in order to get a higher search
engine ranking for the vandal's website. Spamvertisers insert links to their
websites (typically, sites purporting to sell some commercial product) and add
keywords of common or related searches. The apparent goal is that a search
engine will find the vandalized page full of links and improve the
popularity rating of the pages to which they link. This is typically done by
automated editing programs which look for editable text fields in web forms and
automatically fill them in with web links. The links typically lead to
pills, porn and poker sites.
This practice has led to many editable online resources employing anti-spam
countermeasures including the use of
captchas to
attempt to prevent automated editing.
See also
External links
- The website
Chongqed.org maintains a list of
spamvertisers and some suggestions for how to deal with them.
-
http://spamvertised.abusebutler.com This site tracks the volume of URLs
(links to websites) advertised via spam email messages, provides real-time
and archived lists of spammers domains.
-
BlockAlert provides a view of spam and spamvertising within IP block
hierarchy.
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