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The incredibly strange referrers who stopped living and became mixed-up zombie-blogs.

So I’ve been getting these weird pings over at City of Roses. A blog of nothing but airplane news. A blog of LA news. Technical something-or-other blogging. —They’re each of them nothing but simple links with a brief summary scraped off a newsfeed, each laid out differently, each with a not-entirely-random, vaguely evocative name. Each of them linking, under “Referrers” or “Incoming links,” www.thecityofroses.com, along with a bunch of other sites, with almost nothing in common except—like City of Roses—they don’t actually have a link to the blog in question.

And each of them has, at the bottom of the page, the following code:

“Zombieblog.com,” of course, being the URL of the blog in question.

Sebbo did the detective work. —Me, I’m puzzled, too. I’m not seeing how this is driving traffic to “adult-webcam”; certainly not enough to justify the effort that went into setting up these templates and newsfeeds.

Anyone?

—Filed 2054 days ago to ; .

  1. Turns out we're not the first to notice, neither. A Google search for adult-webcam.gif turned up this interesting discussion of the issue.

    They, too, figure it's a sort of Googlebombing. But the question remains: if so, why is each of the copies of the adult-webcams comeon in a different place?


    — Sebbo    Nov 19, 12:05 PM    #
  2. Thanks for the info - I'd been wondering what on earth was going on in my referrals log.
    — suw    Nov 20, 09:40 PM    #
  3. I know that this is a fairly old entry, but I was browsing through my site's referral logs, and encountered the same problem; I was just starting to investigate it via google, when I found...you.

    I really just commented to thank you (and Sebbo) for the help.

    — Raine    Dec 7, 09:05 PM    #

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