In some of the other posts where I talked about comment spammers, people have left comments wondering why they do it or why go to so much effort for so little gain. The hope of comment spam is to raise the spammer’s site in the search engine ranks by having links to the site on as many web sites as possible.
The irony is that if you look at our sitemeter referral stats, at any given time somewhere between 10 and 20% of the referrals are from search engines. Although it’s been a while since I checked, I was curious tonight and looked at the search queries and results that people clicked through to from a search engine. Tonight, in most of the search queries, we were on the first page. Some of the queries were:
- Sean Paddock (6th)
- creating a banner with gimp (3rd)
- christian life (6th)
- temperament god gave you (1st)
The reason I find this so ironic is that I haven’t made much of an effort to get the site to show up in search engines. The thing that will get a site up the search engine ranks the fastest is people clicking on something from the site that show up in a search. The search engines track how often searchers chose a website. I can only conclude from this that searchers have chosen this site quite often. Perhaps, if spammers put something worthwhile on their sites, they might have better success with the search engines. I think I’ll just keep up with what I’ve been doing.
Yes please.