Today I have spent several hours cleaning one of my old websites.

There were over 35,000 subscribers and over 10,000 blog posts, all with a gambling theme.

As I cleaned out the dross I wondered about the motivation for these hacks.

We all know they are sending traffic through their affiliate links to the gambling sites.

I did look at some of the posts.

They’re not brilliantly written and smack of AI or spun content, but they obviously work, or they wouldn’t be doing it.

If the hackers are so clever that they can do this to my site and, no doubt, hundreds of others, why aren’t they building their own sites for their content?

I didn’t follow any of their links; perhaps I should have done so.

I suspect that they are not sending people directly to the gambling sites but via a bridge page of some sort.

I doubt they are collecting email addresses along the way, but they could be.

They’re leaching my visitors and hijacking them to their sites.

All of their activities must be automated because the time it would take to hack a site, upload thousands of pages, and create thousands of users would be enormous.

None of the added users had any access above subscriber, so they’ve also got a nice little hack that allows them to make posts without having the relevant access level.

Unfortunately, they added too much content, and the site crashed.

I received a notification and was alerted to the problem.

However, the takeaway from this is that lots of content works.

You may not get more than a trickle of visitors from each page, but when you have 10,000 pages per hacked site, one visitor a month from each page across dozens of hacked sites gives you massive traffic.

You can do the same, not by hacking sites, of course, but by using legitimate Web 2.0 sites and lots of content.

You can post the same content on multiple sites because you’re not looking for ranking points, just leaching some visitors from highly trafficked websites.

Full automation is not a good thing, but partial automation is an excellent way to leverage your web properties.

That’s why I like this platform: https://go.wm-tips.com/llhome. For a very reasonable $20 monthly, you can attract visitors to your ads and drive them to places that make you money.

Or, if you’re strapped for cash, you can leverage the free account by clicking a few ads.

There’s nothing stopping you from driving traffic from other sources to these same ads.

I do.

Regards,
Brent.