Interview with a Blog Spammer

Check out Chris Pirillo’s blog/podcast/show if you haven’t seen it already. For example, this interview with the “Oilman” is pretty interesting.

One point is that the most successful spammers eventually go white hat — short term, less money, long term they get to stay around. Did you know that many of the current internet marketing gurus started out as rank email spammers? True story.

Comments

  1. April 20th, 2005 | 9:12 am

    This truly does not suprise me. Some of these internet gurus still have a “rank” air to them.

    john
    Ear Infection

  2. April 20th, 2005 | 10:17 am

    Did you know that a lot still are :lol:

  3. Blake Kritzberg
    April 20th, 2005 | 3:12 pm

    That truly *does* surprise me, but it makes a lot of sense — especially given what Allen Gardyne et al say about using your resources to try to trick the search engines.

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  4. Max
    April 20th, 2005 | 3:50 pm

    Pretty interesting.
    By the way I had to turn off comment feature at all at my blog, just to get rid of those f… spammers.

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  5. April 20th, 2005 | 9:46 pm

    Whatever the arena, clowns out there will try to work the system. Good guys can finish first…though to finish first, they may not always be nice.

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  6. Jim
    April 21st, 2005 | 12:33 am

    I agree with Mike…most still are

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  7. oilman
    April 21st, 2005 | 1:01 am

    I like all the links in the forums here ;)

  8. April 21st, 2005 | 3:32 pm

    Wow, amazing seeing a couple posters here seeming awful jealous of Todd. The fact is doing what he did in the past allowed him to hone his skillset faster than most people. He deserves to be where he is now.

  9. April 21st, 2005 | 3:40 pm

    People have funny belief systems and inner “rules” concerning the acquisition of wealth.

    I wonder if mailorder marketers have these kind of black and white conflicts? Perhaps around testing ads for products that don’t exist? But I see way more discussion over these imaginary boundaries online.

    It seems that the minute you figure out an “angle” the game changes or the rules change….but it sure is a lot of fun learning.

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  10. April 21st, 2005 | 7:48 pm
  11. Steve Gill
    April 22nd, 2005 | 2:22 pm

    (followed a thread to this post from David Ledoux’s blog)

    I would guess that many spammers - especially email spammers who seem to get through my email filters better than my legitimate emails can(!) - must get pretty skilled in ways that could be turned into more legitimate directions.

    On a similar note, Porn webmasters et al are supposedly some of the best SEO gurus in the ecommerce business. I read a forums post about a year ago that a bunch of those guys have their own forum to exchange SEO tactics… but I lost the url for it. :( (likely was a membership forum anyways).

    Anywhos - great thread!

    -Steve Gill

  12. rck
    April 23rd, 2005 | 6:30 pm

    Now ear Infection is a bad thing to have, isn’t it? :wink:
    René C. Kiesler

  13. April 24th, 2005 | 12:20 pm

    What a great interview.

    It has opened my eyes to internet spamming.

    Regards

    Ed Keay-Smith

    Google AdWords
    AdWords Marketing - The Pay-Per-Click Campaign Management Specialists.

  14. April 28th, 2005 | 5:23 pm

    This is just like organized/gang crime and even rappers to some extent. They start out poor and desperate, then get rich and conservative–not wanting to risk their lifestyle. It all comes down to how much you have to lose, I suppose.

  15. April 29th, 2005 | 8:15 pm

    Brad thanks for posting this. I loved your stomping the search engine cd’s.

    Phil

    Livermore California Real Estate

  16. May 20th, 2005 | 5:50 am

    too much spamming could be bad for your health - it could even cause lower back pain if you’re not careful!

  17. test
    May 25th, 2005 | 6:31 am

    this is a Test

  18. May 25th, 2005 | 6:34 am

    I wanted to Test the posting system

  19. July 27th, 2005 | 1:13 pm
  20. May 24th, 2006 | 8:33 am

    there’s a efficient way to awoid spam in anonymous blogs: disallow (checked by a script) any links in the blogs and inform about it __explicitly__.


    astor_zdziwisz@yahoo.de

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