I've been getting a lot of spam on one of my blogs. Instead of listing their sites in the spam they are listing pages on various sites, that when you add your site to the parameter of the URL the page displays the URL you added on the page. Pretty interesting way to get links. Many of these are .edu's, .gov's etc. I have a growing list of these sites now. Some are PR 5. Of course, when I use them I can add the URL of one of my sites I'm guessing someone coded these sites and unknown to the owner of the site added this "Backdoor" code so they could get links from these sites. I guess the moral of this story is "Read Your Spam" THANKS UNKNOWN SPAMMER!
These are pretty valuable, so I'm not sure I want to post them publicly. Here is one though that has no PR yet. (not one of the better ones) www .hanson .biz/sites/interim_report_2006/managed_content/popups/disclaimer.asp?link=msn.com this would give MSN.com a link. Added a couple spaces. One that I have is a PR 5 .gov. Best I can tell this wouldn't really be "Black Hat" and it give you the only external link on the page.
OK, cool. I left me some comment spam - http://blog.new-eastside.com/lollapalooza-2007/ I do think it would count as a backlink, I really don't think it would pass PR... (?)
No reason that I can think of why it wouldn't. Each variation (different url in the parameter) would look like a different page to Google. You would need to link somewhere to this link with your URL. when Google follows it, it should count. In this case there probably is little benefit, you could probably receive the same benefit just linking straight to your site. with some of the higher PR ones, .gov or .edu ones, you would receive additional benefit from going through this extra step. Also as it gains in rank from the non-parameter page being added in the link structure of the site, you would continue to gain benefit. IMO
One advantage to your new link. If you had just added your link to the "spam". It would not pass PR, because of the "NoFollow" attribute. with this when Google follows the link (which it really does, it just doesn't pass PR). It goes to a page without the nofollow and give you a PR link. Now, before I get too many red reps from this. When you post to a blog, post something useful, it only takes a minute more. That way you help the blog and you receive a link. Don't post spam comments. Better chance of your comment (and link) staying on the blog.
Yeah, I know of some blogs where you can post a realtive comment to the post and it comes up as a PR6 backlink for me. I dont share this with anyone but the owner of the site allows it as the comments are one off and really important! GO BLOGGERS
After picking up a handfull of PR5 .gov links, I'm almost starting to feel bad deleting his spam off my blog.....Almost
From that description it does sound like it, but no. The site you make the URL to takes the variable out of the url and displays it as a link. That is by design, not me using it as a loophole.