Adsense, referrer spam and empty pages
I was referrer spammed by 71.111.51.172. That’s in Michigan, according to Geobytes.
The point is rather that the Adsense on his scraper sites has a “root site”, that has nothing on it:
tempsubdomain.blogspot.com
That should have kinda tripped an alert when he signed up for the Adsense, eh? Not that it necessarily was empty then, but the name of the blog, now that would have made me a bit wary, were I to OK that account.
And since there are lots of curious people here, I’ll include the spammed for sites:
squishygames.com
goobot.com
careward.com
bluepc.info
They’re on:
74.52.59.2
82.165.194.46
All the domains have whois privacy.
User agent is usually: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.01; Windows 98)
But the first access I have for that IP had this user agent: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
And the last access had a seriously mangled script that included HTML code in the get and referrer.
I didn’t get that many visits from the bot, but I found another page that had gotten more than it’s share. It recorded the top referrers and the number of referrers. I’ll redact the subdomains, and include the counts - from the Google cache on 15 Aug 2006 05:55:45 GMT:
(252)
(239)
(188)
(175)
(147)
(134)
(122)
(119)
(98)
(96)
And I found another domain spammed by the same guy: wikicore.com