Buzz Marketing with Blogs: What Script Kiddies Do When They Grow Up

What Script Kiddies Do When They Grow Up

The Register has a fascinating profile of an anonymous link spammer named Sam. Once a 13-year-old programmer, Sam has put his mad Perl and PHP skills to use earning seven figures by annoying online publishers of blogs and Web sites. He says, “It isn’t personal.” The article, titled ”Interview with a link spammer” points out that:

For even a semi-competent programmer, writing programs that will link-spam vulnerable websites and blogs is pretty easy. All you need is a list of blogs—which again, even a semi-competent programmer will be able to pull together (by searching for sites with keywords such as “Wordpress”, “Movable Type” and “Blogger") a huge list of blogs to hit.

If you’ve every wondered just how link spamming is done, this article is a must-read, though it is sadly short on ways to protect yourself. “Sam” splits some hairs in rationalizing what he does, but points out that, for heaven’s sake, it’s not like he’s creating email spam.

Source: Found this on The Blog Herald first.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 02/01 at 01:09 AM • Blogging News