I’ve been having the standard spam in my blog comments for quite some time from people trying to sell drugs, gambling, sex and other assorted vices. However, just recently I have noticed spam in my blog containing links to some big corporation movies. (They are obviously spam due to their computer generated text content.)
At first I thought it was an attempt to bump up some big corporation’s movie status in search engines. However, after looking at it more closely I don’t believe that is the case. It appears that the attempt is to bump up the rating of a film ranking site. They include the links to these big corporation films, which I assume is to make my site rank higher in movie related searches, and then include a link to their site. A seperate one seems to be using the same technique to try to bump up some indie type films.
Spam. The plague of the information age.