Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Blog Spam: What's the Point?
There must be some advantage to spammers who litter the comments section with spurious messages. They usually have a name that links to something. For example, today there was a poster named "Viagra" who put several comments on my blog. If you click on "Viagra" it takes you to a webpage (search2.site.io/index.html) with a list of Viagra related items.
Can someone explain the point of all this? What advantage to spammers get out of polluting blogs?
I left an example of this spam in the comments of the thread Science Policy Forum: Framing Science.