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Solution: for free accounts, only show links with the appropriate tags so they don’t improve ranking. This was clear a decade ago, did we go backwards?
by tinus_hn 5y ago
Solution: for free accounts, only show links with the appropriate tags so they don’t improve ranking. This was clear a decade ago, did we go backwards?
- Lascaille 5y agoSpammers don't fill comment sections with spam to improve the ranking of that website, they fill comment sections with spam to target the users of that site.
- mnw21cam 5y agoThey fill the comment sections with spam to improve the ranking of a different site that they are linking to in the spam.
- vintermann 5y agoYeah, but they don't bother checking for nofollow attributes. Not spamming people who enforce nofollow attributes would just encourage more people to adopt it, which the spammer doesn't want. Either way, the spammer rarely spams his own thing. They spam what someone else pays them to spam, and don't care if it actually works as long as their customer believes it works (much like legal advertising).
- tinus_hn 5y agoIn other news, even if you block spam spammers still keep sending it, because it’s cheaper to not care. Does that mean we should not block spam?
- danuker 5y ago> This was clear a decade ago, did we go backwards? Maybe to you. But you are not the only person in the world. And as the other comment said, spam still gets exposure to other comment readers.