A couple new fake weblogs, along with a few previous ones, showed up in the referrers listing in my website logs from yesterday. Today’s harvest of bogosity includes:
- www.malixya.com – Opening Pandora’s Box
- www.kwlablog.com – L. A. in the news
- www.worldnewslog.com – War News Blog
Like some of the previous ones, two of these fake blogs appear to have older posts. However, if you look at the HTML source for any of the alleged monthly or weekly archives, you will see that they lead to the same set of entries on the main page.
Lots of other bloggers are seeing this, too.
This looks like yet another spammer/p0rnsite trick to boost a site’s Google PageRank. It will be trivial for Google to foil their attempt, but I suspect this is only the beginning.
As I pointed out yesterday, they will get some traffic from webmasters who bother to check out the referrers in their site logs. However, most webmasters who look into this will immediately view source and catch on to the link to a porn site. No, that’s not the real angle.
The spammers are trying to find the real ego freaks (I say this only because I don’t have enough non-search engine referrers to justify doing the same thing) who use an automated tool to display their most current referrers on the main page of their blog. Plenty of people do that. Google on a couple of the domain names for the fake blogs I listed and you will find many victims of this scam.
I just googled “jennifersblog” and skipped through the search results to discover there were already 205 entries. Pretty good for a one page fake blog that has been in existence for only about a week.