Weird Spamming On My Forums (MSN, Google, Squidoo???)
Maybe someone can explain this to me. I run some of my own forums, and I also manage some forums for clients, and/or friends. I use the classic PHPBB platform. Maybe you can tell me…..Is MSN, Google, and Squidoo spamming forums??? I know it sounds crazy but read on.
Some Background Fighting Spammers on My Forums
I have not installed any mods to combat spam on my phpbb forums, and of course I’m having to fight spammers and their bots constantly. I configure the forums so that a human has to fill out the captcha image, and they have to answer an email confirmation link. As usual, the spammers have figured out a way to get past this automatically as well. I’ll be adding some phpbb mods soon enough, but I have to share with you some interesting findings as I’ve been fighting off this most annoying spam.
As I’ve configured these forum to stop spammers from posting, all they can do is register and leave their spam hyperlink in their profile. They still get some inbound Google juice from this regardless if they post comments or not, it’s worth it to them.
So Guess Who Seems To Be Spamming Me???
Of course the typical spammers are abundant, such as the drug spammers, Viagra spammers, gambling spammers, porn spammers, and general webmasters spamming to up their Google page-rank. But there are others….
Yep – you guessed it. I’m getting spammed by bots that are creating nonsensical usernames, and the spam hyperlink they leave goes to Google, MSN, Squidoo, and sometimes eBay. These are direct links going to the actual sites.
Maybe this is something new, or it’s old news. I’m even seeing these big web sites spamming some of my blogs……what is going on my fellow bloggers?
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