What is this website?
September 19, 2006 5:54 AM Subscribe
What the hell is crazyfreakingurl.com?
I found it when doing a google search for my name here: http://editor.crazyfreakingurl.com.
I found it when doing a google search for my name here: http://editor.crazyfreakingurl.com.
There are a ton of these sorts of sites on the Web. They pull content from real sites. I think they're generally known as spam blogs.
posted by BackwardsCity at 6:37 AM on September 19, 2006
posted by BackwardsCity at 6:37 AM on September 19, 2006
Response by poster: OK, but....the site doesn't link anywhere but deeper into the spam. And if you go to http://crazyfreakingurl.com it just spams for "Home".
It's more like a site where you can get crap depending on your keyword(s). What use would this site be to a link spammer?
posted by taumeson at 8:33 AM on September 19, 2006
It's more like a site where you can get crap depending on your keyword(s). What use would this site be to a link spammer?
posted by taumeson at 8:33 AM on September 19, 2006
I can't see how it would be useful - it doesn't link out, and there aren't even any ads. Unless this site is used to scrape content that can be grabbed and inserted into spam email, to fake its way past the filters, I can't see a reason for this site to even exist. It isn't even on the level of the link farm sites that dynamically add your search term into a fake page so that you'll generate click-throughs for them.
posted by caution live frogs at 9:19 AM on September 19, 2006
posted by caution live frogs at 9:19 AM on September 19, 2006
This URL was registered only in August. The thing may still be in a development phase.
posted by beagle at 9:53 AM on September 19, 2006
posted by beagle at 9:53 AM on September 19, 2006
What beagle said - There aren't any ads yet.
It's sitting there to let search engines index it for all these words and phrases (just like the false hit on your name) - and when it hits a certain date or a certain level of traffic they'll throw the switch on the ads.
posted by bhance at 10:06 AM on September 19, 2006
It's sitting there to let search engines index it for all these words and phrases (just like the false hit on your name) - and when it hits a certain date or a certain level of traffic they'll throw the switch on the ads.
posted by bhance at 10:06 AM on September 19, 2006
The theory behind some of these splogs is that they stay ad-free so they can build up page rank without getting flagged as spam. Then one day, they switch over to spam and reap the benefits of their high placement for as long as they can.
posted by chrisamiller at 10:06 AM on September 19, 2006
posted by chrisamiller at 10:06 AM on September 19, 2006
I agree it's probably some sort of spam scheme, but what if it wasn't? Maybe it's some kind of encrypted stenographic instruction system for a invisible network of bots, designed to look like a spam farm.
posted by delmoi at 10:33 AM on September 19, 2006
posted by delmoi at 10:33 AM on September 19, 2006
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You can visit (nnnn).crazyfreakingurl.com where (nnnn) is any combination of characters, and the resulting page is crafted to look like original content - but contains the (nnnn) along with links intended to game the search engines into thinking this is a real website.
Your name probably popped up because lots of these sort of outfits use 'real' content they have stolen from elsewhere to 'seed' their pages and make them look 'more real'.
You can pretty much ignore it, as this is the internet equivalent of white noise.
posted by bhance at 6:36 AM on September 19, 2006