Log file dropping.

Log file referral dropping

[Beachboy]

I did a site search and was not able to find anything on this topic, but check it out. Apparently this is a brand new spam technique that clearly works GREAT (at this moment) on Google.

It's similar to guestbook spamming, but sneakier and it doesn't involve guestbooks.

First of all, it's very helpful to have a domain-with-important-keywords-in-the-url.com.

This technique involves a certain very popular statistics program (and perhaps more than one.) Here's how it works:

Find a high-PR site that uses this stats program. Determine whether the statistics are publicly available (and thus subject to being crawled by Googlebot). Also assure that the monthly stats reports have PR. Install a link to that site's index page on your most important page. Click that link a sufficient number of times (or use an automated way to do it) so that your URL is assured of being displayed as one of the top 30 referrers when the current month's stats are published at that site on the first of the next month. Googlebot then crawls that stats report page, finds your domain-with-important-keywords-in-the-url.com and not only sends some PR your way but also tallies the keywords for relevancy.

I spent some hours researching some things this evening and stumbled across this technique. Believe me, it works.

You can prove this to your own satisfaction by noting the keyword-laden-adult-site-urls.com's amongst the top referrers to very unrelated websites. Go to those adult sites, check their backlinks and also note their ranking on Google.

GoogleGuy, are you taking notes?

If anyone wants the name of the stats program, just sticky me.

[penfold25]

the problem is this, alot of people rely directly on search engines so i guess revealing this information is sensitive.
But alot of sites have direct referals so there is nothing to worried about with them.
Big deal if they have an ip address.

[The Subtle Knife]

If it doesn't break the rules, how the hell is it spam?

who's rules mine or yours
DaveN

Exactly my point, there are no rules, they are kept
secret so in effect it's a free for all.

And if someone is doing better, good luck to them.
Wish I knew somepeople who were doing really well,
get some real useful tips.

[coolasafanman]

i guess that's one reason for making stats public.

I'm not with you - can you explain what you mean?

i check my logs to see who is linking to me. one link looked peculiar so i clicked it and was brought to an seo company's stats page, with an advertisement for seo services. the idea is that seo's send links to your site so you check them out, then they try to sell you their services.