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Recycling spams on phpBB?

by Etienne
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I just thought about something and was wondering if it has been done before.

I have a phpBB forum which require a special code to register. At some point i removed the protection and got tons of spam bots on my forum posting junk. Of course I deleted all of it.

What I just realized is that there are lots of incoming links to each of these posts, which are now broken links. After deleting the spams, if I could redirect those backlinks to my home page, that would give me tons of free incoming links.

Do you think it's a good idea? Is there any phpBB mod that allows doing this?
#phpbb #recycling #spams
  • Profile picture of the author SEOwarez
    i don't know of any plugin for phpBB, but your idea works. Its a blackhat practice to setup forums, let people spam them and generate links, just to get the backlinks and later completely switch the content i.e. replace the forum with a sales page. you can redirect the links with htaccess, although deppending on the amount of posts this could take a while
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  • Profile picture of the author ionisis
    You could modify the phpBB to, upon finding that the link doesn't exist, send out a 302 header to your main page (permanent redirect). You can't do it at the .htaccess level because APACHE will NOT know if that link is dead; only phpBB will.
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