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Is Disney my biggest fan or just more spam?

July 27th, 2006

Is Disney my biggest fan or just more spam? So there I was, ~~innocently~~ obsessively checking my blog stats, when who suddenly appeared? Disney. I looked again. Disney? There it was, in all its glory. Disney was looking at my blog. I’ve made it to the big time. I am the man.

I went to the Disney site to find out where the link was coming from. Searched for Spectorbrain - nothing. Searched for blogs - found a boy band site. Oooo-kay - but still nothing.

Confounded, I went back to my stats. 10 Disney links … then 20 … then 30. A day of Disney stats turned into weeks with no end in sight. I sat by my phone, starved and sleep-deprived, waiting to the call. What call, you may ask? The call offering me a cushy job with the huge sign-on bonus, of course. Come on, Mickey, my bags are packed.

I’m sorry to say, however, that all of this dramatic embellishment was for nothing. In reality, it was just some unscrupulous num-nut sending fake referral spam to my blog and other blogs (Burbanked, Affiliate Marketing Journal, Village Blog, Blogging Poet) under the Disney name. Yes, I said num-nut.

But it did get me thinking – why would Disney be interested in me (if they really were)?

Walt always wanted to be a web designer.
Without any possibility of an original Disney idea, I came up with Cinderella 3.
I’m conducting usability testing on Space Mountain.
They know that I know what’s really in the vault.
My photoshop skills are pure Disney magic.
I was their back-up plan if Pixar fell through.
Disney wants a blog for “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger 2.0”
“Mr. Spectorbrain’s Wild CSS Ride” is opening in 2008.
Disney is updating Mickey’s look by exposing his frontal lobe.
Who cares? It’s Disney.

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12 Comments Add your own

1. meryl
July 28th, 2006 at 10:57 am

Happens to my site, too… along with poker and pr0n garbage. Annoying.
2. Disney Referrer Spam comi&hellip
July 28th, 2006 at 3:14 pm

[…] using HyperNews installs » Bookmark on del.icio.us Spam Huntress was kind enough to track down the third-party who’s putting Disney in thereferrer logs of a number of blogs, including one of mine. Thank SpectorBrain for the tip. […]
3. Weblog Discussion: Links:&hellip
July 31st, 2006 at 12:10 am

[…] Disney.com showed up in Spectorbrain’s and my site’s webstats. Get the story on why we see fake referrers (I have a few more from poker and pr0n sites — annoying). […]
4. Josh
July 31st, 2006 at 3:18 pm

Not necessarily a bad thing…got a couple of people talking about it and people like me who found you because of it.
5. Disney Referrer Spam comi&hellip
July 31st, 2006 at 4:12 pm

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6. Jason (spectorbrain)
July 31st, 2006 at 4:29 pm

Glad I could help get the word out. Burbanked.com and I have been trying to decipher this mystery for a while now. I\’m not sure it will have an impact on the spammers, but at least we can all have a better blogging experience.

Thanks for visiting and the comments.
7. phd
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:05 pm

Huh. So that’s why I couldn’t find a link on the disney site to my blog
8. Spamhuntress » Blog&hellip
August 8th, 2006 at 2:30 am

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9. Quiglag
August 12th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

lol, I went through the same thing. Did a search on disney.com, and everything.
10. Meryl.net » Blog Ar&hellip
August 21st, 2006 at 10:23 am

[…] Jason talked about Disney showing up in his blog stats. The same thing happened to me around the time of his posting. Now, instead I’m seeing a flood of poker this, poker that, poker all the time showing up all over my stats. They showed up before, but it’s getting worse. […]
11. Bionic Ear Blog&hellip
August 21st, 2006 at 2:23 pm

Jason talked about Disney showing up in his blog stats. The same thing happened to me around the time of his posting. Now, instead I’m seeing a flood of poker this, poker that, poker all the time showing up all over my stats. They showed up before, but it
12. Affiliate Marketing Journ&hellip
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:24 pm

[…] Spam Huntress was kind enough to track down the third-party who’s putting Disney in the referrer logs of a number of blogs, including one of mine. Thank SpectorBrain for the tip. […]

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