I noticed a tweet from @bigokro the other day saying “Spam has invaded DZone… I wonder how they’ll deal with it.” and it made me realize that most people thankfully have no idea how much spam gets submitted to DZone every day and how much effort we put into protecting you from it.
A quick check of the database showed that we have blocked over 70,000 spam links. We typically block 100 or more each day. In addition, there are thousands of users banned for spamming and tons of domains that are blacklisted so nobody can post links pointing to them. If not for those, the number would be a LOT higher than 70,000!
Here’s a short sample of the headlines we’re talking about. These were posted yesterday (along with many dozens of other fine examples.) I think you’ll get the idea pretty quickly:
- Free And Cute Babies Pictures
- Escort vip Madrid
- Madrid Escorts
- Carl Lewis: Olympic Medals through the Vegan Diet | Vegan123
- 10 Steps to Open Your Own Consulting Business and Work from Home.
- Ladat: Cures and Remedies
- looks like a unlimited bandwidth web hosting..cool site
- Free Laptops
- Leather bar stools
Just for fun, I exported a list of the 70,452 links (titles,dates and users – no urls) that have been blocked since we launched DZone. It’s just a zipped text file, but rather large (about 1.6 mb zipped.) Feel free to download it and have a look at the outrageous junk that “SEO Experts” and outright spammers think you need to know about. It’s good for a laugh, really it is!
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Those are some funny titles. Would be interesting to also see what some of the submitted links were as well.
I was concerned that if I included the URLs I would be helping the spammers along. Maybe we should create something like an anti-matter DZone where we push all this junk!
Rick
A ‘Spam Zone’ page may be inter sting, but only if (a) you can get Google to preemptively mark that page as a link farm to hurt the page rank. and (b) it is by referral only.
You would also need to watch out for it being used as a weapon, i.e. spamming your competitors to nuke their rating. There’s always a problem somewhere
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Haha wow, that’s ridiculous.
I will say though I rarely ever see any spam links when I check out the ‘new links’. So keep up the great work!