Re: Are the Moldovians math freaks?

From: Stan Goodman (SPAM_FOILER_at_hashkedim.com)
Date: 06/24/05

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    Date: 24 Jun 2005 08:29:44 GMT

    On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:37:23 UTC, Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org> opined:
    > > I have a wiki website built to be the first online database of
    > > graduate level example math problems and solutions.
    > > www.exampleproblems.com. My site traffic is growing steadily, but if
    > > you look at my logs (bottom of the menu on the left) about 44% of the
    > > kb traffic is due to the country of Moldova. Also, my top referring
    > > sites (about 20) are porn sites.
    >
    > I don't know about Moldova, but I suspect the porn referrers (I get those
    > too) are just an attempt to bring more traffic. e.g. people going back to
    > the referers. That's my guess, from seeing them do this for a while.
    >
    > > Also, I had to delete a few posts that seemed to
    > > be just a bunch of links to other sites to all topics.
    >
    > These are just spammers and marketers; they try to improve their page
    > ranking in search engines such as Google by increasing the number of
    > Internet sites that link to their pages. Standard spam/scam stuff.
    >
    > > How are all these things related and is my hosting linux server in
    > > trouble?
    >
    > The common link is spammers/marketers, and it has nothing to do with Linux.
    > No idea about Moldova though.
    My guess: Some otherwise inocuous word on your site happens to mean
    something interesting in Romanian (the language spoken in Moldova), and
    turns up your site when Googled by a Moldovan. Why all Moldovans rather than
    actual Romanians? Perhaps the magic word is also the name of a Moldovan
    town, politician, patron saint, or (in view of your other statistics) a term
    of kinky sexual connotation. 

    -- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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