Mail spammers vs link spammers
You can always tell what background a spammer (excuse me, SEO) is from.
A mail spammer will have ad copy with links interspersed between paragraphs. Easy to read, easy to click. They’re after human eyeballs and clicks.
A link spammer will use subdomains or file names that are keyword stuffed. And anchor text with the same keyword stuffing. Lots of links to various pages on the same domains. The “ads” aren’t pretty, and aren’t meant for human eyeballs. It’s all about getting their sites to rank for their chosen keywords in Google.
Lately I’ve seen blog posts with several hundred mail spam copy type comments, and non working hyperlinks.
Heh…
And I thought normal spammers were stupid! I guess when you get out of your spamming specialty you look even more stupid.
Even our Bulgarian friends spammed with broken links for a while, putting the keywords into the “href” attribute and the actual link between the “a” tags. And they did that for weeks …