Comments on: Forum spam dilemma

by: Igor Berger

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:00:03 +0000

Well if you do not want the links from Spam ridden forums to acces your forum, human or search engine, set up the 404 in your .htaccess file, for all the negative hosts.

You can use my list for the domain names. Most of them redirects to Porn sites.

But Porn Spammers will still post to your forum unless you using an Anti Spam Mod Filter.

by: DT

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:48:48 +0000

SpamHuntress, I wanted to tell you thank you for opening this topic up for discussion. Spam is a huge problem, not just in my niche of cyberspace, apparently. Hopefully, with awareness-advocates like yourself, whom publish facts, spam can be warded off a bit.

Thanks again

by: admin

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:58:29 +0000

To AlphaCentauri:
That’s a no, then.

by: AlphaCentauri

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:40:36 +0000

“span style font size 1px and line height normal. Could someone give some feedback on where inside a phpBB post that code would be used legitimately?”

Actually, before the KS forums at thecarpcstore.com had to go into hiding due to DDoS, we were having fun with those spams that had links to “I feel lucky” Google searches. By including some of the same terms in our posts, we ended up with better position in the Google results, so anyone misguided enough to click on such a link would be taken directly to a page on a forum that could set them straight. Of course, that text was useless for us to read, so we shrunk it to get it out of our way.

by: Lemat

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:53:51 +0000

She does not have to worry about the reputation of the website since hardly no-one *human* follows spammy links. However she must keep her forum clean. Her site will not be indexed by search engines high for porn keywords - spammers websites will be always higher. And of course if someone is looking for porn content and is desperate enough to enter her site - it is not the person she would need to worry about.

by: David Precious

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:21:07 +0000

Your suggestions are good, but don�t address the fact that the problem was never HER site being indexed, but someone else�s site which contained a porn link to hers

Of course, but if the page that the links pointed to no longer exists, I’d imagine Google will ignore those links from now on.

You can’t prevent anyone from linking to your site, or control what they want to use as link text (except perhaps if it’s libellous, where you may have some legal grounds).

by: Pascal

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:28:40 +0000

Google themselves say it shouldn’t hurt…
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014953.html

by: Florian Steinel

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:24:57 +0000

Searching for the domain you’ve mentioned, reveals a lot more affected domains. (Google only shows 650 from the 48,800 results)

by: admin

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:56:13 +0000

To David,
Your suggestions are good, but don’t address the fact that the problem was never HER site being indexed, but someone else’s site which contained a porn link to hers. She can use the removal tool to remove spammy pages on her own site after she’s removed the pages, but she can’t use that tool to remove pages from someone else’s site!

by: David Precious

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:51:59 +0000

Try Google’s URL Removal Tool:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61062

That ought to help get the offending posts removed from Google’s index quickly.

She’ll need to stay on top of the spam and ensure that spammy posts are quickly dealt with, before Google gets to see them.

Is there a plugin for phpBB that could include a noindex/nofollow meta tag for the first 5/10 days of a post/thread’s life, so that fresh posts don’t go into search engine lists until they’ve been there a few days? That would mean that, as long as any spammy stuff is caught and deleted within a few days, it won’t get indexed.