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How do spammers work and why aren't they losing money?

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Chuck., May 1, 2011.

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The biggest income biz for spammers now is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) posts. The spammer might be based in India or Turkey but report to be from "newyrok" or "Austin" and post vacuous responses like "Hey, nice idea. I could use one of those." Their sig will have URL's in them from mostly US based companies - some scams, but could also be real legit concerns. Search engine bot crawls pick up the URL's listed (even if invisible) in the posts and rank the URL a tick higher on their listings and hence a higher ranking for user searches.
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Very interesting. I have noticed posts like the above from seemingly new users here on PC. They "respond" to random posts w/crap like that and once they pass the 5th or 6th post (to get around Priuschat's 'filter'), they throw in an URL in their useless post.

#21 cwerdna, May 5, 2011

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