I spend all day, every day, building links in the adult industry (for escort websites), and in my travels I have found literally thousands of posts on hundreds and hundreds of forums that look like these. Copy and paste the URL's below to view the posts (I do NOT want to link to a spam post on here!). http://caraca.extroverthost.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=44084 http://prisma-solutions.ca/php_shopping/viewtopic.php?p=30673 http://uova.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=80455 Code (markup): It looks like these were made by some kind of bot. And even more scary is the fact that one of these posts linked to one of MY websites, even though I had NOTHING to do with it. Now, I'm only a *grey hat* adult SEO person, so I'm absolutely not interested in buying a program that vandalizes forums like this. What I AM interested in finding out is what this software is called so I can understand how it works and figure out how to counter competitors that are using it. Can anyone provide me with more info? Thanks! ^F^
The program that is most likely used for this is called xRumer. how do i know? i have a copy and i use it, i never use it like this because it really will do more harm than good to everyone involved, but if used in the correct way it will bring targetted traffic and plentiful backlinks. xRumer + dedicated server with c-class ip address's = ultimate spam machine. Last time i checked xRumer is $550. If you find what looks like a cracked version 9.99/10 it is old and outdated and filled with beautiful trojan alien babies who will attempt to hatch out of your computers stomach and kill everyone in your house. - true story.
I have actually heard of xRumer and been through their site. After watching the promotional video my general thoughts were: a) Wow, it's like an automated way to make the entire world HATE you! b) Google has GOT to have a way to defeat this. So I went and checked out the site the guy was demonstrating the software on. 15,000 inlinks and a lower PR than one of the sites I own that has 30 inlinks. LOL! But, back to the discussion... I *don't* think xRumer built these pages... looking at the software demo video, xRumer doesn't cross-link spam posts, but if you start clicking on the links in the spam posts I listed earlier, they link to more spam posts that link to more spam posts and so on. The network these people have created must have *millions* of links in it. I mean, on one forum the poster has created over 13,500 posts with about 50 links a piece that link to 50 other forums. WTF have I stumbled on here???
It is xRumer, there really is nothing this powerful on the market besides it. As i say i don't use xRumer the way these people do, the demonstration you saw is most likely years old now. I have a website i bought and promoted with just xRumer as a test, i sent it less than 750 backlinks over a period of 7 days, the next time PR updated, 3 of its 5 pages were PR3 and the other 2 were PR1. I know guys on the xRumer forum who have fine tuned their working practice, they do it how i do it, but a lot better. Using hrefer to gather the links they then create one account to ask a question, followed up by another account that replies with an almost answer, followed up by a third that will provide the answer, it appears as though they are active members, interacting with one another, these posts don't get shit canned, they are on high profile sites and most people never know. The way your example is doing it is creating a huge link wheel, you are right in that there will be millions of links. Hrefer will easily create millions of viable pages for blog or forum spamming, i don't use a dedicated server, but a friend who uses it has a dedi with 100mb line, he leaves hrefer running for weeks at a time, creating link lists of 3, 4, 5+ million links that can all be spammed. In my opinion xRumer is the cause of the posts you found, it looks like what xRumer does, it just has the feel of it. - Take it from somebody who knows, because i would be extremely surprised if there was a public rival to the software.
yeah and what about those spam links with random numbers and letters you get in comments...what on earth are they??