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ArchivesNOFOLLOW is badly needed for this forum now
in reply to a message by ziiz
The spammers became more clever over time: Instead of only posting some nonsense with a link, they now mostly post quite sensible name-related questions together with a link that they want to promote.
It really pains me when spammers are not only able to put up their links here for a few days until Mike weeds them out, but some forum regulars even(mis)take the questions as serious ones and spend some time answering.
No, nobody should answer this guy whether SEO (short for "search engine optimization" for those who don't know) is a "sure name", surname or whatever: That would be only a big waste of time.
I saw that the forum software renders links as normal links, without a rel="nofollow" attribute which would make this forum a lot less interesting for spammers at once.
Now, with full links from a domain so old and so well-ranked by Google, it is worth the trouble for spammers to 1) manually register, 2) come up with some not too-dumb name-related question and 3) post the whole thing.
I even found this forum once as a "tip of the week" on a blackhat website for "getting quality links". There must be more of this, otherwise the spammers wouldn't even know that this is a worthwhile target.
A really sad state of affairs for people genuinely interested in names...
It really pains me when spammers are not only able to put up their links here for a few days until Mike weeds them out, but some forum regulars even(mis)take the questions as serious ones and spend some time answering.
No, nobody should answer this guy whether SEO (short for "search engine optimization" for those who don't know) is a "sure name", surname or whatever: That would be only a big waste of time.
I saw that the forum software renders links as normal links, without a rel="nofollow" attribute which would make this forum a lot less interesting for spammers at once.
Now, with full links from a domain so old and so well-ranked by Google, it is worth the trouble for spammers to 1) manually register, 2) come up with some not too-dumb name-related question and 3) post the whole thing.
I even found this forum once as a "tip of the week" on a blackhat website for "getting quality links". There must be more of this, otherwise the spammers wouldn't even know that this is a worthwhile target.
A really sad state of affairs for people genuinely interested in names...
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