So, You Want to Get a Jaguar?..

'The Register' runs an interview with a guy -Or is it a girl? It doesn't matter, actually- who owns a Jaguar and makes a seven-digit income on comment-spam: flooding blogs and guest-books with links to PPC-sites to pump-up their PageRank and get some free traffic.

... Sam's code gets hundreds of open proxies to obediently spam blogs and other sites with the messages he wants posted. They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot them and index them. And here's the surprising thing: link spamming is not outsourced. These people do it on their own behalf.

Here's why. When Sam spams tons of blogs and sites with links to his sites - which are affiliates of bigger PPC sites - people see the links and, seeking some porn, pills or casino action, click through to his site, and from there to the parent site, which pays Sam for each person landing there. The PPC sites can see revenues of £100,000 to £200,000 per month, says Sam. He gets a slice of that - and he wants it to stay that way.

Read the full article at The Register.

See also:

Ingham Eradicates Spam with Barracuda Spam Firewall

Conexus Releases Webroot Spam Shredder

Hendrickson Software Components Announces SpamX Available Now For Windows, Macintosh and Linux





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