Junk URL and splogging?
Can someone please tell me what the heck this is?
http: / / webgrrrl.net/ / public/ slider/ addineyeV2.html? strBanner= gEbServerData= ’1.0: : 244213: : 470804: : Site- 251/ Type- 11/ 470804_ FE24BF70- 4A2B- 4516- 84CD- 43AECF82EAC1.js: : ExpBanner: : 0: : ebLoadScript(“ebPlayScript”,”http: / / ai656.insightexpressai.com/ adServer/ adServer.aspx? bannerID= 18593″): : : : 0: : - 1: : : : 0: : 0: : 0: : 37414: : 0′;gEbBannerData= ’59194235810219241182137473531: : 1: : 300: : 250: : : : webgrrrl.net: : 0: : 0: : 30: : false: : false: : true: : 0: : 0′;gEbInteractions= ‘[_ eyeblaster,http%3A/ / ad.doubleclick.net/ click%253Bh%3Dv8/ 3575/ 3/ 0/ %252a/ d%253B110807295%253B0- 0%253B0%253B16717987%253B4307- 300/ 250%253B21364406/ 21382296/ 1%253B%253B%257Eaopt%253D2/ 0/ 3d3b/ 0%253B%257Esscs%253D%253f,]‘;ebBSmallS= ‘http%3A/ / ds.serving- sys.com/ BurstingScript/ ebBannerServing.js’;gEbDbgLvl= 0;gEbFlashVer= 9;gEbWMPVer= 10;gEbResolution= 16;gEbTemplateName= ‘ExpBanner’;gEbAdUrl= ‘Site- 251/ Type- 11/ 470804_ FE24BF70- 4A2B- 4516- 84CD- 43AECF82EAC1.js’;gEbDynamicResHost= ‘ds- ll.serving- sys.com’;gfEbUseCompression= true;gfEbCacheResources= true;gnEbLowBWLimit= 120;gnEbMinZIndex = 10000;
I got this from looking through my MyBlogLog’s site stats.
Could this be the work of a splog? In the morning, my WP dashboard did show a pingback from a blog that was snatching posts from other sites, not just mine. But by the time of this post, it has disappeared. I’ll check my browser History later and see if the site is still up.
Update 19/June/2007: And the splog is still up, and made from IP address 75.126.199.186. I’m going to e-mail and demand the site be put down. If ever the site owner said “I didn’t do it on purpose, it’s just a test”, you don’t think I would believe — or care for that matter — do you? Here are the snapshots from
- http://testsubdomain.netmoviehost.com/top-commentators-widget
-in-wordpressorg-plugin-directory-coming/ - http://testsubdomain.netmoviehost.com/junk-url-and-splogging/
Update 23/June/2007: Holy Willy Wonka! Based on my web logs, the junk URL may very well be a referral from All Things Digital, one the WordPress CMS sites I was raving about. If it really is so, then slap me on the fanny and call me silly — if it’s just a pingback visit, then it’s fine by me.
