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nofollow all external links point external links through a redirect like /out?to=<url> and put /out in you robots.txt change your url structure and simply 404
by a5seo 14y ago
nofollow all external links
point external links through a redirect like /out?to=<url> and put /out in you robots.txt
change your url structure and simply 404 the pages with spammy links
- jtheory 14y agoThese solutions assume that the spammers have human beings who are actively checking that their spamming effort worked on your forum. I have a forum where I've been battling spam for years, and since the beginning all external links have been nofollowed... AFAIK this made no difference whatsoever.
- a5seo 14y agoThat's partly true. But the reason a forum gets on their radar in the first place is by failing to follow those safeguards. The way these guys operate is they write scripts to crawl the SERPs and find sites that are ranking, then they look for weaknesses (i.e. outbound followed links that don't go through a redirect). Or they look at their spammy competitor's backlinks with AHrefs, Majestic, etc. and discover the forum that way. Then they help themselves to a link.