I fnally finished my Windows desktop app ReferBomb.exe that spoofs the site you want to promote as the referer in the logs of every site that it visits.
I tried it two days ago. It visited about 7,000 sites of the 100,000 on my list and I got tired of running it and shut it down. I didn’t notice any new visitors.
However, today, one of the boot camp members said that he ran it for two days and got 153 unique visitors. Wow! To me, that’s damn good since it cost him nothing but his bandwidth!
I am thinking that the message I was leaving in the User_Agent field just wasn’t peaking their curiousity, so I have changed it to “COMPETITIVE EDGE MARKETING“.
My boot camp member got 75 unique visitors per day. So, as I enjoy doing things in a massive way, I have started 10 instances of ReferBomb.exe and have them all running even as I type this post.
‘nite,
Bompa
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Speaking of getting exposure and attracting new traffic, this comment is another experiment in itself.
I am curious of a bot in my logs.
R6_CommentReader(www.radian6.com/crawler)
I guess radian has crawlers that monitor blog comments for brand names. Not so much for brand name infringement, but because big corporations want to know who’s talking about them and what they are saying online. It’s the new thing! lol
From radian’s page:
“How do companies like Boeing, Comcast, Sony, Yamaha, The American Red Cross, Sea World, General Motors, and Nike use social media to change the way they’re doing business?…”
So, the purpose of this comment is just to mention a few big names and then monitor my own logs.
LOL
UPDATE…
I think it was about 12 hours ago that I started up five instances (rather than ten like I had planned) of ReferBomb.exe, my crappy Windows desktop log spammer/advertiser program.
It has visited about 25,000 sites and I have received about 100 unique visitors; mostly the admin of those blogs. LOL
later,
Bompa
hehe, hey you got me over here, and I thought you really enjoyed my post. lol Cool site, will be back to check out more later.