A Look Inside the Blog Spammer’s Bag of Tricks

If you have a blog, read a blog, or heck, have even heard of a blog, then you are probably familiar with blog spam. Blog spam is where the spammer posts spam, usually containing links to their websites, to someone’s blog using either the comment feature or the trackback feature.

You may wonder who would sit there and type in a reply to a blog article just to get a piece of spam out into the world.

The truth is that it is all automated through the use of blog spam scripts. And these are no amateur hack jobs, oh no. Sophisticated blog spam scripts, which can sell for as much as several hundred dollars, can include such features as the one touted at WebWapStudio:

Autosubmit to unlimited sites
Use browser simulate system for anonymous Your requests
Use random proxies
Use random User agents
Use random Referer sites…

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