Today www-dom received a piece of spam that was obvious by its subject ("One Million Dollars") but used a nice trick to fool users into clicking on one of its links. I went along the lines of (modified to not point people there):
http://whitehouse.gov/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?url=http://use.perl.org/
Clicking on it works, and takes you where you'd think it would, with an intermediate step telling you how the White House thought the target was an interesting link to visit...
It would be extra-super-sneaky to submit that link to google, thus tricking it into thinking the white house link to use.perl and boosting use.perl in search results
Re:clever
darobin on 2002-09-09T20:54:31
And even sneakier to have use.perl link to a page at the WH that links back to use.perl, because it makes it look like reciprocal links which Google should think shows a higher density of relevant content. Oh but wait....
;-) Re:clever
rafael on 2002-09-09T21:00:56
And while you're at it, give the anchor a meaningful content, like this: President G. W. Bush highly recommends use.perl to the American Nation.
Re:clever
darobin on 2002-09-09T21:18:33
Noooooo! Even the pigeons doing the PigeonRank(tm) are smart enough to downvote that!
