Netomedia and Blog Spamming
Posted by glo on 28 Jul 2005 | Tagged as: Comment Spam
Netomedia is just another self-proclaimed ethical online marketing agency using dubious methods as a way to get more traffic for their clients. There are probably thousands of these unethical SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers) or marketing scums offering their slimy services online. My guess is that those seeking their services are just as slimy, so writing about them will do little good. It probably will not save an unsuspecting webmaster from using their services but I found a blog about Netomedia’s spam practices to be very entertaining.
John Sullivan at benzoblog was having a problem with comment spam. It seemed to be one spammer in particular and even though he had done several things to detour the spammer, nothing seemed to work. So John decided to do a little detective work and went in search of his spammers identity. What I found entertaining was how John discovered who his spammer was and what program his spammer was using to spam him. Now, John, it seems has some hacking abilities and those, umm … skills turned up some very interesting information. I confess, I admire people like John and their abilities and wish I had the knowledge they own. I do like the sleuthing thing and even though I do have some skills, I don’t have near enough to uncover what John did. I think I’m in love! 
Anyway, what John found on the questionable spammers server was Blogs Autofiller 2.4.0, published by Maksym Nesen from the Ukraine, if you can believe the whois information. I know that I probably should not link to the spammy sites but sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
A quote from the spam script site:
This is the perfect unique tool that quickly submits your information to message boards/blogs or many other web scripts using the most effective technique and offers you fantastic opportunities for web site promotion, increasing the link popularity of your web project.
You just gotta ask yourself if people are so stupid as to believe that kind of hype. And then there’s this line:
Increase your traffic and Search Engines popularity using Blogs AutoFiller!
Makes a person wanna puke … It should read:
Increase your chances to piss off the blogging community and get banned from Search Engines by using Blogs AutoFiller!
Well, this is my spam report of the day. Read John’s for more entertainment if your the curious type.
I’m flattered! Thanks…
Of course, I’m still being spammed by Netomedia - I had to add another IP address to my firewall this morning. But it’s cool that this information is now out there, and that as more and more people link to it, google solidifies its links… It was a fun ride, too! Glad you enjoyed it!
John, thanks for drooping by and leaving a comment. I think you are a person I’d like to know … just in case I need a good sleuth in the future.
Maybe you’d like to check out the Hashcash script. It was written for WP users but you might be able to hack the code enough to use it on your site. It’s absolutely marvelous. I do not worry about comment spam anymore.