I like sifting through the bulletins on MySpace. Not because I want to keep Tom from shutting down MySpace by forwarding along chain letters, and not because I want to spread the word about how Rupert Murdoch is going to physically come to your house and strangle pet goldfish unless you repost this, but because I like to see how scripts and scams are working the community to make some cash.

There are plenty of simple ways to drive traffic to money making sites from MySpace, and most are nothing too fancy. This one, again, not overly fancy, but I am willing to bet that it works pretty damn well. As most of these do, they start with a photo of pretty girl, and end with a few bucks. Damn, marketing is simple ain’t it?

Step 1 - Requisite pretty girl profile. In this case, it’s Amanda (aka “Hot Abercrombie Chick”).

Step 2 - Bleeding heart bulletin, Amanda uses the old standby “Help me keep my site online!”. The help she is looking for comes in the form of good hearted and horny young men, who pop over to Amanda’s blog and click the ads. As she forthrightly states, your clicks help her out.

This helps me pay for web hosting - all you have to do is click. I really appreciate your help; without it I couldn’t pay the web hosting bill and my site would go down. If you’d like, you can do this every day - it really does help.

Step 3 - Now we are on Amanda’s site. We read about how she needs the help from the ad clicking to pay for hosting. But wait…her blog is on blogger. Hosting is free? What gives Amanda??!! Are you trying to yank my chain here? Oh wait…

I’m in the process of moving my blog over to professional hosting on Yahoo. Though it’s possible to run a blog on completely free services, doing it this way is messy and makes everything slow to load.

Right, blogger, run by Google…very slow…and messy. Fucking Google and their crappy load times and bad scalability. But she IS moving to Yahoo hosting, and she is real cute…so I should help. For sure. Let me click on one of the contextual “student loan consolidation ads”. Wait a second…shouldn’t these ads be about Abercrombie, or hotness, or hosting? I guess Google sucks at load times AND contextual advertising. Man…it’s a wonder these guys even make money. Good thing I didn’t pick up that stock at $100/share.

Just because we care about Google, and we want to let them know that their load time stinks and they can’t seem to contextually match ads properly, let’s look at the source code on poor Amanda’s site. See if we can’t help a hot chick in need and a big company with broken systems.

OH SHIT! Amanda! You have forsaken me! And you have forsaken me in the form of cleverly hidden text regarding student loans that fooled Google into serving high paying CPC ads on your site. You have used JavaScript to hide text and game Google! You have used your virtual hotness to trick me!

Damn you Amanda…I thought we had something.