Ok, this is just confusing:
 Kelli Garneren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelli_Garner ******@***** |
Submitted on 2009/09/29 at 4:28pm
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Kelli Garner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelli_Garner
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It is puzzling because it doesn’t seem to link to any product, just a Wikipedia page…
Maybe it’s not spam.
No, it’s definitely a spam comment; it’s from a known spam IP address and no one was actually on my website at the time to post it…
Google for that email address and you’ll see tons of results, all of them linking to the same Wikipedia page.
The questions still is: Why linking to that page? There is no mechanism or trick in the message that could cause any hurt or promote anything except the name or email address.
Maybe someone interested in raking that page? But still, why?
Btw, I got the same SPAM.
I suspect one of two things. First, someone has a webpage linked to from that Wikipedia page and wants people to click there. A small fraction will do so. Second, someone is trying to improve the page rank of a page that they have linked to on their and want to improve that of the Wikipedia page indirectly. This second would imply a not very bright spammer since Wikipedia’s outgoing links (except for a narrowly approved set) all have nofollow tags.
I can’t see any obvious linkage on the page in question or when I look at its history: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kelli_Garner&action=history
It is possible that they are trying to do one of the above for a page linked one away from this but that seems strange.
Note that whatever they are trying to do, directly quoting above probably helps the spammer. Most blogs don’t have nofollow tags on all URLs in comments by default, whereas links in the main body of a post do not have nofollow tags. So this more effectively spams the link as put this way.
Up, found the link on the associated page that was probably being spammed. See this dif: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kelli_Garner&action=historysubmit&diff=302871696&oldid=299542675
Ahh, nice digging, thank you.