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Old 30-06-09, 02:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default AskJeeves Spider etc

what do they do in basic terms
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Default Re: AskJeeves Spider etc

They are software bots that literally crawl the site picking up all the info posted so that it turns up on the search engines.

Which is why the spammers try so hard to post live links on popular forums like this one - the more links back to a site the better it does in the search rankings

Youcan very often spot a spammer thats just joined the forum. You get 10 quick posts in succession on random areas of the forum joining in discussions with pointlesss comments like

"good information"
"thanks for that man"

Once they have their 10 posts up you get the link dropped to whichever crappy site they are trying to push.
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I sometimes play games with an obvious spammer if Im bored and have a few minutes to kill - let them get to 8 posts then delete a few of them
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Default Re: AskJeeves Spider etc

thanks analoguesat
i was just looking late this morning who's online and they was a fair few on
your answer clears this up
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