How Spammers are Using Your vBulletin Forum
Right before the 4th of July Holiday I was doing some regular maintenance on one of my forums and discover that spammers are finding a new little way of spamming your forums without even posting a post or sending private messages.
So what are they doing?
Well since the new vBulletin 3.7 came out with the new expand profile comments where yourself or other members of the forums can leave a messages. Well spammers are now using this comment section to show their porn links or whatever else spam link they have. Here is an example:
I have installed a new spambot system, but you really can’t stop the human spammers. But if you have had what you thought was a spammer but didn’t post or send private messages. Check out their profile, you might just find something.
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Giving Prosper202 One More Chance
After the last Seattle Affiliate Group Meet-up this past weekend. I talked with Steven Truong of Prosper202. While we were there I told him that I was going to give it another chance he let me know if I need any help.
Later that evening I sent him an e-mail explained the things in detail of what I was doing and we cleared up the things to hopefully get it working right for me.
Reason being is that my “testing” (with Propser202). I have a landing page with 9 offers that were going to 2 separate affiliate programs and traffic is coming from a multiple PPC networks.
See you’re already confused, Aren’t you?
So here is to a long term relationship with Propser202. I will let you know the results in the next couple of days to see how I did and if I got it right.
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The 40 Year Old College Student
That is right after being out of school since 1986, a little over 22 years ago, I have decided to go back to school and take some computer classes. I will be going for my AA in Computer Science. After the first year I will get a certificate for an Applications Developer.
I have always been pretty good at html and some php. But I wanted to get into more SQL database development, XML, and Java.
So no I am not getting out of the business of forums or affiliate marketing. This will just make it so I can do most of my programming and not hire out as much.
So am I crazy? Or is this a good thing?
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My opinion of eComXpo
As I said earlier I was going to check out the eComXpo for the first time and I must say it was pretty interesting to say the least.
The first thing I have to say is that it is very confusing when and where you have to sign in to attend the show, it took me a little bit to find out where to log in. When I did log in on the home page, it told me that the show had expired. What? It just started!
So I finally read my e-mail and used the link in the e-mail to log into the show.
Overall impressions is that the show’s floor plan is very well laid out and easy to navigate. I pretty much knew where I needed to go most of the time.
Once I went to the exhibition hall I went to visit some of the people I knew and drop them a quick chat, to my surprise most of the booths were left unattended, why would you sign up to exhibit and not have someone there? On the booths that I did visit I was instantly asked to chat with someone from the company, sometimes by multiple people.
Overall it wasn’t a very productive show, although I did make some new contacts. Along with a bunch of spammy messages from other attendees.
Some complaints I do have is that, I wish that had it where you could read a small bio on the company without visiting the booth, a couple companies I thought were CPA networks or other related companies, were not.
The other HUGE thing was I wish they would have stopped sending me e-mails that the show is open. After I signed in and visited for a little while, I must received at least a half dozen e-mails telling me the show is open. No Duh!
Maybe next year I will be like Zac Johnson, sign in, enter my name in all the drawings and sign out and hope I win something.
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A Quick Update
I just arrived back from week long vacation and have a pretty busy week ahead of me.
First-off I am attending the eComXpo online today and tomorrow. Should be interesting and seeing what the deal is. I signed up to attend last year, but was on vacation.
Then on Saturday it’s the second meeting of The Seattle Affiliate Marketing Group at the Barnes and Noble in University Village. So if you’re in the Seattle area come on by and hope to see you there.
I have been pretty busy catching up with tons of e-mails as I only had very limited internet service where I was.
Also I was going to start watching the Top Affiliate Challenge, but after reading some blog posts, I may just skip it. I was really rooting for Ian Fernando, but it seems that he left the show.
I will be blogging about me experience at the eComExpo and I found a new way that spammers are using your vBulletin Forum to spam, it’s something I discovered right before I went on vacation.
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