Reducing website spam

Re:Reducing website spam by rplnt on Thursday December 01, 2011 @02:14PM (#3301002)

As outlined in another comment, marketing/seo is often the reason. That is, bots will spam links. Either they want direct clicks or at least some SEO bonus.

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Re:Reducing website spam by eli on Thursday December 01, 2011 @02:35PM (#3301096)

The worst is the bots that are smart enough to figure out how to post spam on your site, but not smart enough to see that it's all rel=nofollow

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Re:Reducing website spam by TomGullen on Thursday December 01, 2011 @02:44PM (#3301130)

Working out if they are nofollowed or not probably is comparable effort to just posting the spam link! Therefore just posting the spam link is probably the best strategy for them.

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Re:Reducing website spam by Natsu on Thursday December 01, 2011 @04:28PM (#3301458)

For one link, yes, but for the entire site? I wonder.

I can't imagine there are any search engines important enough to optimize for that don't use the rel=nofollow cue.

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Re:Reducing website spam by danneu on Thursday December 01, 2011 @04:34PM (#3301479)

I'm not convinced nofollow links are valueless.

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Re:Reducing website spam by danneu on Friday December 02, 2011 @04:39AM (#3303364)

Source: http://www.socialseo.com/blog/an-experiment-nofollow-links-d...

Google "nofollow seo value" to find other insights.

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