I Don’t Understand Spammers
1754 days agoI am pretty sure by now that you guys know that I have two directories which accept listings. One of them is a Singapore small business directory while the other is a general web directory which only accepts PR4 and above sites. What this means that these directories are niche, catering only to a specific group of people. However, it seems that no matter what, there will definitely be spammers who think that they can get away with it. In my Singapore small business directory I have people submitting websites that are not located in Singapore, forums, blogs, chat sites, sites which offer free MySpace Layouts and so on. I mean seriously, these are not even business or business-related websites at all and they expect to get listed?
For my the other directory, the general web directory, I would understand that not all doing the submission understand what Page Rank is, and I do get a lot of submissions. However, the amount of spam I get is also impossible. Of nearly 100 over submissions per day, around 5-10 listings will get approved. And a lot of these sites are really the spammy ones like selling all sorts of enhancement drugs and stuff. One look at the site and I ticked on the delete option. There are even those sites whose URL is really long and ridiculous, I too sent those to the rubbish bin. But yet, they still continue to pour in. And you can’t stop them. You can try of course, but in the end you will just give up.
I don’t understand what drives these spammers. Although it doesn’t take a hell lot of effort to submit a website to a directory, but the thing for spamming to work, spammers must do a lot of submissions because their sites will mainly get rejected. So just think of the effort needed for it to really work. So why bother in the first place? Won’t it be better for spammers to create content rich sites instead? The chance of getting rejected when submitting to a directory is less too. Won’t that get a better result than spending time and effort to submit a spam site?
Not to mention that a lot of them don’t even exist anymore, but BotNet never got notified of their deaths and thus still continues to distribute their spam daily to millions around the world. I think there should be a “Spam Obituary” directory and all Spam Bots of BotNet should be re-coded to check the Spam Obituary daily to be sure they’re not still advertising sites that no longer exist.
I think perhaps the Search Engines have to differentiate between sites that went down and those which no longer exist.