http://www.forumdr.com/the-curse-of-the-profile-spammer/891/ Practical Advice for Running an Online Forum Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.forumdr.com/the-curse-of-the-profile-spammer/891/comment-page-1/#comment-19798 NickP Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:46:02 +0000 http://www.forumdr.com/?p=891#comment-19798 I do seo for a couple companies and it's frustrating to see the competition and the top of great keywords as a result of profile spam and auto content blogging. I would think that a coming google algorithm would not count a link from a forum profile as having any value - although nothing has come yet. :( I do seo for a couple companies and it’s frustrating to see the competition and the top of great keywords as a result of profile spam and auto content blogging. I would think that a coming google algorithm would not count a link from a forum profile as having any value – although nothing has come yet.

]]> http://www.forumdr.com/the-curse-of-the-profile-spammer/891/comment-page-1/#comment-4075 Admin Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:55:30 +0000 http://www.forumdr.com/?p=891#comment-4075 Google have just made another blog post on this: "If you allow users to publish content on your website, from leaving comments to creating user profiles, you’ll likely see spammers attempt to take advantage of these mechanisms to generate traffic to their own sites. Having this spammy content on your site isn't fun for anyone. Users may be subjected to annoying advertisements directing them to low-quality or dangerous sites containing scams or malware. And you as a webmaster may be hosting content that violates a search engine's quality guidelines, which can harm your site's standing in search results." http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/protect-your-site-from-spammers-with.html Google have just made another blog post on this:
“If you allow users to publish content on your website, from leaving comments to creating user profiles, you’ll likely see spammers attempt to take advantage of these mechanisms to generate traffic to their own sites. Having this spammy content on your site isn’t fun for anyone. Users may be subjected to annoying advertisements directing them to low-quality or dangerous sites containing scams or malware. And you as a webmaster may be hosting content that violates a search engine’s quality guidelines, which can harm your site’s standing in search results.”
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/protect-your-site-from-spammers-with.html

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