News and views from the "Smart" spam
Well, not exactly smart. What I mean by smart, is that a human being is spending human brain time creating it, rather than a spambot that only spends machine time spewing mindlessly. Lately, this blog seems to be attracting comments that are relevant to the post, but come from people I don't know and contain embedded links to sites that sell stuff. I delete those comments faster than you can say "spam." But for a nanosecond, I'd like to get into the heads of people who spend time doing this. I can't imagine the mindset.
This is not to say that I don't want comments from unknown persons. On the contrary - comments from far-flung places are generally very cool and remind me that my audience is broader than I think it is. One of my favorite examples of this is a two-year-old post on the novel Kiss the Dust, which is told from the point of view of a Kurdish girl. Apparently, there are folks who regularly search the Web for references to all things Kurdish. Lately, though, another two-year-old post has been drawing a lot of attention. In fact, on the school's website statistics for May, this post has gotten more visits than any other page, except for the school's main page. 7,457 as of today. I have to say that I don't get it. Surely there are better places on the Web to find information about this topic?
This is not to say that I don't want comments from unknown persons. On the contrary - comments from far-flung places are generally very cool and remind me that my audience is broader than I think it is. One of my favorite examples of this is a two-year-old post on the novel Kiss the Dust, which is told from the point of view of a Kurdish girl. Apparently, there are folks who regularly search the Web for references to all things Kurdish. Lately, though, another two-year-old post has been drawing a lot of attention. In fact, on the school's website statistics for May, this post has gotten more visits than any other page, except for the school's main page. 7,457 as of today. I have to say that I don't get it. Surely there are better places on the Web to find information about this topic?
posted by franceylibrarian at 10:59 AM
2 Comments:
What your experiencing is SEO optimization techniques. Sites hosted on edu domains are worth more in terms of pagerank than from .com domains. In other words, a link from your site (.edu) is trusted as a "more credible" source to google than from a .com domain. This means that it will rank the linked sites higher in search rankings. (i've been research SPAM lately--that's how i found your post)
is the search criteria common for other browsers such as yahoo, msn???
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