Spam promotion

[ryanhellyer]

This is a slightly off-topic post for the "Promotion & Revenue Strategies" board, but it is vaguely related ....


I've noticed some odd-ball spam comments appearing in my blog lately. Most spam comments contain either links in the comment itself, or a link in the "website" section of the form. However, not all spammers seem to be leaving links. The following comment was left only a few minutes ago. The email address supplied was just a random hotmail account. No domain name, no links of any kind.

Hi! Swiss banker here. I came across your blog posting after searching for and your post on ish WordPress Plugin | Ryan Hellyer makes an interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I will research more next Tuesday when I have the day off.

My question is ... how on earth can anyone benefit from this kind of spam post? It almost looks like someone made an error when they setup their evil little spam bot software. Or is there something I am missing here?

The comment is definitely from a spammer as it contains many of the same chunks of text as other spam comments I've been removing recently, including the use of "ish WordPress Plugin | Ryan Hellyer makes an interesting read", "I will research more next" and "when I have the day off.".

[BigAlReturns]

Nope I don't really see the point of it either! Perhaps someone made a mistake programming their spambot?

[ryanhellyer]

Well I guess if someone is stupid/evil enough to make a spam bot, then they're stupid enough to mess it up :P

[TYPELiFE]

People wouldn't spam if it didn't work .. it's just unethical and abuse of privacy.

Because of the amount of bots they have doing this, they only need 1 out of xxxx people to come and visit their website and click or view something.

[ryanhellyer]

I'm not question if spam works, I'm sure there is some benefit, even if it is terribly small.

However the example above seems to give no benefit to them whatsoever. No one can get from my site to theirs as they haven't left any links, domain names or anything on my site.

[ryanhellyer]

One more thing - I haven't seen any of these since my first post in this topic. I guess they realised their error and corrected it.