Funniest. Footprint. Ever.
Ok, so yesterday I was chatting with IncrediBill (yes, the anti-scraping evangelist) and he sent me over a hacked site that someone had injected hidden links on (conveniently warning me that my virus scanner better be up to date AFTER he sent the links). Anyways, I viewed the source, and found what is quite possibly my favorite footprint ever. Yes, I blurred out the URL. While I don’t support SEO crackers, it’s not my place to call them out. Either way, enjoy. Follow the red line to see the footprint.
Yeah, so there’s no technical anything in this post. Soon as I think of a new post there will be. Later today maybe.
-XMCP
June 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
LOL that’s awesome.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
That is awesome. I would love if he/she had hacked an XML site with XSLT rendering =).
June 24th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
LMAO…probably will still take Google 6 months to eliminate it.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Very funny. He/she isn’t even very creative with naming things. Lazy.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Classic
June 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
@Sterkworks
Or he is creative, but also just hilarious.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Comical, but not a knee slapper.
Good eye on you tho.
Bompa
June 25th, 2008 at 7:46 am
There are other reasons why a link like that could be placed there hidden from actual users. Because I can’t see the actual URL or rest of the code around the link it’s harder to see the reason they did it, but one reason would be to catch traffic sources that are sending hitbots. Human users wouldn’t ever follow the link, but a hitbot would.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I bet this person will be quite embarrassed if they see this post. We all make mistakes so learn from your mistakes (and others).
June 27th, 2008 at 5:20 am
well we can assume, he follows good coding standard of naming things right so others can also understand his code
June 27th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Leprekon are you dumb?
They misspelled the SPAN tag and used .
Very funny stuff.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
OMG! That is totally hilarious! Thanks for sharing=)~
June 29th, 2008 at 11:32 am
yeah uh…guys….its just a SPAN typo
June 30th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Freudian typing, much?
June 30th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
“Comical, but not a knee slapper.”
I don’t know, my knees about slapped themselves.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Sometimes it’s better to learn from others mistakes than your own
July 1st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Wonderful. I’ve seen people name their hidden text div’s “hidden text”… no creativity.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
It’s a simple span typo probably.
July 5th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
so when are we gonna see the next post? its been 10 days!!
September 4th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
spam tagged – brilliant!
September 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Infuriating – forgot you can’t place things in brackets!
…it was meant to read: spam tagged as spam – brilliant! Got there in the end!
September 21st, 2008 at 6:35 am
ROFLCOPTER
December 1st, 2008 at 7:48 am
A great fun.I really enjoyed.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Спасибо, интересно=)