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Food For The Spam Harvesters

I happened to see that a spammer went to my other websites and promptly posted spam. The spammer happened to use bodya@heremail.com and killerspm@runbox.com to validate his accounts.

I would really hate it if his bodya@heremail.com and killerspm@runbox.com email accounts began getting flooded with spam, because that would be poetic justice, y’know. I hear that by posting email addresses like bodya@heremail.com and killerspm@runbox.com on a webpage tend to make those addresses available to email address harvesting programs that then add those addresses to spam lists.

Please, don’t become a spam victim like bodya@heremail.com and killerspm@runbox.com will soon become. Never post your unobfuscated email address on the web or you, too, will receive “killerspm” in your inbox.

(What’s ironic is that the same changes Google implemented to defuse Googlebombs likely also negates the efforts of blog spammers.)

  1. no, what’s really ironic is Google is going to seriously punish you for having those links on your site.

    seriously. That’s going to do you more harm than them.

  2. How so? Do you know some formula Google uses that counts a page’s ranking?

    If so, this could prove to be an interesting exploit to Google. I could add these words to a competitor’s web forum and destroy their page ranking. Hmm…

  3. Google’s PageRank doesn’t appreciate lots of bad looking links in a site… They go to a lot of trouble try to identify spam sites and links, and one way is when people have tons of links like that on their site, trying to get those links more “juice”.

    …so, including a bunch of links to spammy email address in your site might signal to Google’s crawler that your site is doing something it shouldn’t be.

    I’m just sayin’. Probably going to hurt you more than them.

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