I noticed the other day that ProgrammingPrimate.com got it’s first spam comment! I find this completely hilarious!
As I understand it, the principle behind these spam comments is that a spammer has a program which autonomously crawls the web and when it comes across a site that it can post a comment on, it posts a generic comment which includes a link back to the spammer’s website. Over time, all these links to the spammer’s website increase the spammer’s site’s PageRank. PageRank is like a popularity score from 0 to 10 that Google calculates based on how many other websites link to that page and what their PageRank is. Put really simply, the higher a website’s PageRank is, the higher it will appear in people’s search results on Google and thus the more visitors they’ll get to their site.
But the thing I find funny is that the home page on my website has a PageRank of zero! lol
So how the hell the spam bot even found my site is a mystery to me let alone why it decided to proceed with the spam comment! If anything the low PageRank of my crappy site will bring down the reputation of the spammer’s website! Haha, joke’s on you spammer man! ;-)