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I don't really understand why you would have your bot spam a site that's dedicated to developers and software engineers.
by PatrickTulskie 17y ago
I don't really understand why you would have your bot spam a site that's dedicated to developers and software engineers.
- there 17y agoone spams github because github.com has a high google page rank.
- timdorr 17y agoThe project links are rel="nofollow", though. There really is no benefit to spamming it.
- ggrot 17y agoThat doesn't prevent the pages themselves from ranking.
- PatrickTulskie 17y agoI thought that at first too, but then I picked apart the link. They are javascript redirects to another site that then forwards the traffic on to a referal system for another site. Also, I'm not totally sure every search engine completely honors rel='nofollow'
- PatrickTulskie 17y agoI understand that, but why would you risk pissing off a group of developers, engineers, and hackers? Unless this system is totally automated, I can't see why any reasonable person would think "Oh yeah. This is perfect. Let me put my spam here."
- pronoiac 17y ago"Reasonable people?" They're spammers, asshats by definition.
- tptacek 17y agoThey get the same benefit whether the site is for software developers, materials engineers, scrapbookers, the satanist chapter of La Leche League, or the Skifree Yeti. It's about search engines, not the site audience.