Spam. WTF?
This isn’t a popular blog in terms of traffic. I use it to get my thoughts about design out into the world in the hopes that someone else can benefit, but I’ve come across something that I don’t fully understand. Spam.
I thought I had a good grasp on email spam. Of course you can trick a small percentage of people to click through to a malicious site or download mal-ware. Apparently it’s very lucrative. I understand that and the majority of email clients do a good job of filtering out the bad stuff. What I don’t understand is blog spam. I get over 150 spam comments a day. They are usually gibberish with random links to anything from Viagra to acai berry vitamins. A little insight: my blog gets less than 20 visitors a day. 20 visitors. The fact that I get so little traffic, but deal with so many spam comments confuses me. How is that valuable to a spammer? Their links get marked as spam almost immediately and no one is looking at them anyway. I finally had to turn off auto-approving comments because every single comment I got was more crap.
If someone knows why this practice is valuable to a spammer, could you please leave a real comment below? I need to figure this out.
Category: Design, Marketing 2 comments »
May 18th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Just want to say what a great blog you got here!
I’ve been around for quite a lot of time, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work!
Thumbs up, and keep it going!
Cheers
Christian, Satellite Direct Tv
August 5th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
If you really want to know, all you have to do is ask