This little blog sits out here on the World Wide Web and gets maybe a couple-dozen visitors in a good week. (check the Site Meter stats.) But even though hardly anybody visits here, some spammer has decided that my site is a good mark for advertising all kinds of things that don’t even deserve to be mentioned. What do they have to gain by defacing — or rather, trying to deface — my little corner of the web? It’s like somebody trying to sneak into my back yard and write nasty things on a tiny piece of siding on my house with a Crayola marker; they don’t succeed, and even if they did it’s unlikely that anyone would ever see it, and I can get rid of it pretty easily. It just doesn’t make sense to me at all because they have little or nothing to gain other than bothering me.
Most of the referrals that my site gets is from Google searches from people looking for freebie instructions for building a Hillbilly Horseshoes goal; that’s the only thing I can think of that might be a draw for these dirtball spammers. Do they just set up stupid spambots that troll the web looking for targets, which makes it somewhat of a no-effort deal or what?
Whatever the reason, I’m sick of it. I also installed the Akismet anti-spam WordPress plug-in, which seems to be taking care of them for the most part. So far, only one piece of spammage has gone live on my blog, but that doesn’t seem to stop them.
I just wish they’d take a hike.
Yep. Spammers sure do stink!
I think most of them are just trying to get their name out there for the search engines to find.. Of course most modern blogging software uses a nofollow tag, which tells the search engine to ignore it.
Anyway, it is a constant battle.