by yukon Banned
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Seriously getting tired of the spam that is sticking here in the SEO forum.

At least 50% of the post in the SEO forum are spam & it doesn't look like anyone cares enough to clean it up.

I've stopped reporting spam because there's just so much of it & you have to wait between reporting each individual spam.

Might be time for a voluntarily vacation, I'm getting tired of sifting through the spam.
#forum #seo #spam
  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    I report multiple spam posts each day. If ever member did the same, it would get rid of 99% of the rubbish and make this forum much better for everyone.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      hard to stay ahead of it. The forum is just too big.

      What would help would be to up the minimums for adding
      links and sigs. Like 500 posts for any sig, or 3 month membership.
      Or, pay $50 upfront for war room, then have it come with perks.

      Problem is, the spam comes in many forums. Some clown yesterday
      just made a whole bunch of nonsense posts...one even informing
      us the biggest global ad network is google adwords. Sure. Like
      we need a thread for that.

      The nonsense posts are worse than spam.

      I hate the dead threads resurrected for some reason.
      Case in point, this gem:
      http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...r-org-net.html

      Of course, the danger is getting my posts deleted here...If it happens,
      I never take it personally.

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      • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        hard to stay ahead of it. The forum is just too big.

        What would help would be to up the minimums for adding
        links and sigs. Like 500 posts for any sig, or 3 month membership.
        Or, pay $50 upfront for war room, then have it come with perks.

        Problem is, the spam comes in many forums. Some clown yesterday
        just made a whole bunch of nonsense posts...one even informing
        us the biggest global ad network is google adwords. Sure. Like
        we need a thread for that.

        The nonsense posts are worse than spam.

        I hate the dead threads resurrected for some reason.
        Case in point, this gem:
        http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...r-org-net.html

        Of course, the danger is getting my posts deleted here...If it happens,
        I never take it personally.

        Paul
        That was funny (the thread). I've always noticed that phenomenon, especially here. I didn't know it had a name. It's why I skim past so many long threads looking for something "new" and relevant.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          Originally Posted by Carl Brown View Post

          That was funny (the thread). I've always noticed that phenomenon, especially here. I didn't know it had a name. It's why I skim past so many long threads looking for something "new" and relevant.
          Carl Brown, excellent observation and one I actually do without
          realizing it. Now that you spell it out, browsing looking for something
          new and interesting. Thing is, many times I scroll all the
          way to the bottom...nothing.

          In defense of the WF, there are many other places here in the WF
          that are pretty good, spam or not. This part of the forum just
          seems to get more than its fair share, and it's like a plague.

          You don't think I look for good stuff from a lot of people?

          They seem to be just doing the same thing I am. Looking, lurking.

          Now if we wanted to, we could all start threads that would pique
          some interest. Mike A. used to be the master at that. That is,
          slowly pushing out the junk.

          Probably, we all are frying bigger fish, like our own businesses.
          But that's what the WF is very good at. Giving people tools, info,
          and other stuff to start implementing. Pretty soon, you are really
          wrapped up in your own affairs. Either that or you just want
          to spend time doing something that's not contributing to your
          bottom line.

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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      I report at multiple spam posts each day. If ever member did the same, it would get rid of 99% of the rubbish and make this forum much better for everyone.
      Like I said above, that will never work (never).

      Spammers are here for one thing (links), cut them off at the links & they'll stop posting fake questions & spamming their links.

      Allowing the links in the first place tells me nobody is serious about fixing the spam problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      I report multiple spam posts each day.
      But that needing to wait 60 seconds in between reports desperately needs to be reduced.
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      • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
        Originally Posted by chmae73 View Post

        I do agree with your opinion.
        So you decided to show your approval by making a useless post instead of clicking the "Thanks" button in the lower right corner?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by chmae73 View Post

        You got it my friend I guess you are right. I do agree with your opinion.
        Well, I guess this is probably a perfect example of the links this person sells in their signature. Forum spam.

        Oh the irony of a spammer agreeing with a comment about too much spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Bestseller91 View Post

      I pity the mods for that. Seriously , for a forum with that huge volume its easiest for spammers to dive in and post and hardest for mods to clean up. WF needs a dedicated cleaning staff i guess.

      One of the major problem i have seen with people is doing nothing but staring and blabbering around about reducing spam without realizing the need of themselves taking the first step. ( Not associating it with you in any way Yuke, i understand your frustration) . If every responsible person here at warriorforum takes time and trouble to report 20% of spam he comes through , WF would be a much better and cleaner place.


      The problem isn't average Warrior Forum members reporting the spam.

      The problem is exactly what Paulgl posted above, Warrior Forum makes it so dang easy to spam, they are literally asking for most of the spam by allowing spammers to freely post crap without paying a penny & without having very many forum post.

      I'm a Mod. on the largest hobby forum in my niche (right at 50% member count as Warrior Forum), it's not difficult to control spam.

      Links are the only thing a spammer cares about, control the links & it controls most of the crap being posted here on Warrior Forum.

      By giving spammers ammo. (links) nobody is trying to reduce spam, it's that simple.

      I like the WF, but I'm not going to waste my time digging through page after page of fake questions & spam links, I can tolerate a few pages, but man it's seriously got to be at least 50% of the forum is junk.

      Also, those stickies at the top of the forum are not the answer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Ray
    Originally Posted by yukon View Post

    Seriously getting tired of the spam that is sticking here in the SEO forum.

    At least 50% of the post in the SEO forum are spam & it doesn't look like anyone cares enough to clean it up.

    I've stopped reporting spam because there's just so much of it & you have to wait between reporting each individual spam.

    Might be time for a voluntarily vacation, I'm getting tired of sifting through the spam.
    so true.

    meanwhile, they close perfectly good threads with plenty of responses...
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    • Profile picture of the author LiChen
      Originally Posted by MikeWike View Post

      Well, when I first registered in this forum (2011 sep.) it wasn't so spammy at all. But last 3 months or something like that have been pretty crazy to say the least.

      Seems like every new member makes at least 4 users and :

      user1: makes thread
      user2: reply (mostly copied from wikipedia and spun - don't know why is that important)
      user3: reply (total nonsense)
      user4: reply (some sh*t again..)

      and that's how they all get 50 posts and add their HIGH PR, VALUABLE links to their sigs. Because they all know that WF has PR5 and this is just crazy link juice what is coming to their sites.
      You are right. Such new people give "black mark" to other new guys join forum to gather and share more knowledge about SEO and IM.

      I guess, they are following kind of "Angela link building package" advice
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  • Profile picture of the author MatthewWoodward
    I started a thread about the multi tiered link building video tutorial in my signature that was deleted by the mods as overly promotional.

    I thought it would be of great value to the community and is better than any link building based WSO (feel free to call bullshit on that claim) but it was deleted even though the response to the thread was exceptional.

    Yet the spam that offers no value at all remains?

    Bizarre!
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by MatthewWoodward View Post

      I started a thread about the multi tiered link building video tutorial in my signature that was deleted by the mods as overly promotional.

      Not to be a dick, but...

      It was overly promotional. If you start threads to post links to your own videos, they will get deleted every single time, and that is the way it should be. If it was any other way, people would be starting threads with links to their own blogs and sites all day long to try to take traffic from WF. If you want to promote something, sell a WSO, enter it in the Warrior For Hire section, or put it in your signature.

      If someone else finds it, thinks it is useful, and posts it themselves, then it will stay. Doing it yourself, is kind of lame.

      Your video wasn't necessarily bad, but it is the same rehashed information you can already find all over the place here. So either way, I don't really see any value to it staying posted.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Not to be a dick, but...

        It was overly promotional. If you start threads to post links to your own videos, they will get deleted every single time, and that is the way it should be.
        Yeah pretty much. I put up two videos and they stuck because I know to put the videos on a site I wasn't promoting anything on (or using at all in fact) and it had nothing linking back or referring to any product. Going back to the board quality issue I never will do that again though. Got too much grief out of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by yukon View Post


    Might be time for a voluntarily vacation, I'm getting tired of sifting through the spam.

    I'm with you on this . I am probably going to take a vacation as I really don't see anything constructive going on in almost any thread and its been ages since there was anything to learn from threads. Its not just the obvious spam though. Its the overall quality of this part of the forum. It has nose dived. Besides the obvious spam there are people playing dumb, making one sentence comments and talking pure rubbish and all to get a signature link.

    I'm sorry but you CANNOT learn SEO on this forum anymore if you ever could.Over the last week I have read that

    spam links work fine to rank sites
    when PR is updated your penalties will go away
    Content is what gives you a high pagerank (this one just can't die)
    SEO is dead
    SEO is dying
    Link building is dead
    Forum owners are greedy for not allowing spamming of links on their site
    Links no longer matter because google goes off social signals instead
    Paul and Angela links are back

    and Drumroll please...........

    You don't need to worry about links because just content with no links will rank you. (I don't mean non organic links I mean NO LINKS whatsoever)

    Some of the posters are just brain dead or as I said talking garbage just for a forum sig link and to boot I have caught two people linking to thier own site that didn't have the common sense to lock up their whois records to not reveal they are owned by the same person/company.

    Stupid, stupid , stupid stuff. Making the Board look like a kiddie board. I am not going to say that democracy is bad where everyone has the same voice but right now its a detriment that even a kid on summer break can sign in and spout what they know nothing about and get a sig or incontext link.
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  • Profile picture of the author underworld90
    Two ideas popped into my head that could help the SEO forum:

    1. Establish a senior SEO forum where you need a substantially higher amount of posts to get access.
    2. Assign more moderators to patrol this forum. To provide incentive, give them some kind of perk or compensation so that complaints are seen after in a shorter amount of time.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by underworld90 View Post

      Two ideas popped into my head that could help the SEO forum:

      1. Establish a senior SEO forum where you need a substantially higher amount of posts to get access.
      2. Assign more moderators to patrol this forum. To provide incentive, give them some kind of perk or compensation so that complaints are seen after in a shorter amount of time.
      1. That would just encourage more spammy worthless posts to reach some artificial number so they could spam the other forum.

      2. If it was up to most of the moderators, the SEO subforum would be deleted. They probably could use an extra few people with no power other than to delete worthless posts and spam, but in their position, how do you find someone trustworthy enough to do that?
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    I think mods are doing a pretty good job considering forums are easy targets for spamming. WF is also using outdated vbulletin software and there's lots of bots that can easily spam the crap out of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author hilarious89
    Can you please give me a example post which is regarded as spam in your opinion? I wanted to improve my post quality that's all.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by hilarious89 View Post

      Can you please give me a example post which is regarded as spam in your opinion? I wanted to improve my post quality that's all.
      ^^^^^ This one ^^^^^
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    • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
      Originally Posted by hilarious89 View Post

      Can you please give me a example post which is regarded as spam in your opinion? I wanted to improve my post quality that's all.
      I think he is referring to new posters coming here and sneaking a link in a generic post. It's obvious what they are doing.

      Admin should set the forum so posters who have an account for under 3 months / 300 posts before they can post any links.

      I've been a member here for awhile and sometimes I'll throw my services in a thread talking about a subject that I deal with. That might be considered spam (self plug), but at least it is helpful. Some might consider it spam,,,
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    Is it surprising, considering the idiotic ideas about SEO that promoted here? Why, exactly, would a forum that has so members that advocate spam link building be immune from it?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Typical BS link spammer thread (screenshot below).

    I won't bother mentioning what the 3 obvious spammer footprints are, in the screenshot below.

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    hxxp://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/649644-content-spam.html












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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Same spammer as the last screenshot in a different thread.

    Always posting fake crap.

    Notice the guy has 80+ approved post (spam). I don't even have to look at the rest of his forum post to know he's a full time spammer, normal people/members don't post copy/paste crap like that.

    [source]
    hxxp://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/649646-keyword-stuffing.html





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  • Simple fix would be to only allow people with war room membership to have links in their signatures.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by HenrySEO89 View Post

      Simple fix would be to only allow people with war room membership to have links in their signatures.

      Or, make the entire sig. a monthly paid subscription, that way the spammers will never have links that stick longer than a month. That alone would instantly thin out the spammers.
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    • Profile picture of the author zecke
      I hope mods and admins are reading that. Seriously there is way too much spam in almost every thread
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    • Profile picture of the author tryinhere
      Originally Posted by HenrySEO89 View Post

      Simple fix would be to only allow people with war room membership to have links in their signatures.
      That would fix didley squat, people will just coff up the $ and spam, restricting links is probably only going to hurt the genuine people, and as everybody has said reporting the spam now is a full time hobby that you just about give up on. By the time you log in, spend most of your time reporting the crap, it's time to go or your sick of it.

      Half the problem is not staying on top of it and by that if they smell an in they come from miles around like fleas.

      + more mods per forum would be a good start, then bury the buggers one by one until the war is won.

      just keep in mind one mans trash is another mans treasure.
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Paid signature links sound like a great way to reduce spam but the opposite might be true, cause then people just post as much until they can leave a link inside the posts. Must say I feel bad for the mods who have to clean the mess up each day. Not sure how it works here but at many other forums it's a volunteer job to be a moderator, pffff.
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  • Profile picture of the author Duy Nguyen
    At least we're seeing serious guys here discussing this topic I've reported many spam topics recently but things just getting worse. Paid membership to place links in signatures or raise the bar to at least 100 posts or so are the best solutions I could think of.

    I don't mean to promote anything here but just look at the way BHW runs. They're only 2nd to WF in terms of traffic and members but to be honest, the information being shared there are so much better. The reason? Spammers can't survive there because if they want a link in their sigs, they will have to pay money for that. And the mods are much stricter. Perhaps it's time to remake WF into a much more serious place than a playground for spammers.

    Just my 2 cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author tech84
    Having a minimum number of posts to be able to post a sig can be harmful too, they would just probably post nonsense posts/replies just to reach the minimum and thus increasing spam posts/replies.

    And for the having a paid sig, I don't like that at all, paying just to be able to have a sig.


    I'm also guilty, because I don't flag spam posts here. I'm here almost everyday but I rarely psot a reply. Tech84 <- lurker lol!
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by tech84 View Post

      And for the having a paid sig, I don't like that at all, paying just to be able to have a sig.
      You don't have to have a sig. Period. Would you rather they delete the sig
      feature? Maybe if they charged $10 a month to post...

      Just now someone posts a thread that google.com has a PR of 0.
      Completely idiotic.

      Originally Posted by kid carson View Post

      The way I avoid the spam here is very simple.

      Take Mike Friedman.
      Take Yukon.
      Take Mike Anthony.
      Take Niko.
      Take Alexa Smith.

      Go to their profiles - click statistics - click find all posts - save that to favorites in a specially created folder.
      You forgot CDarklock, Kay King...

      Anyone know what happened to Bgmacaw?

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  • Profile picture of the author vCr8
    Reading the title, I was about to say that flagging spam can be a little too subjective at times.. but when I saw Yukon's screenshot... well it made me eat my thoughts.. spammers can be a little to obvious most of the time lol. I also remember a spam one time with random letters on the title and on the body, there was no sig as well. Seriously what are they after for with that type of spam?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mantasmo
    Free sig. links = tons of spammers. Simple as that.

    P.S. spammers won't pay to have sig. links enabled.
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  • Profile picture of the author Blaine Smitley
    The way I avoid the spam here is very simple.

    Take Mike Friedman.
    Take Yukon.
    Take Mike Anthony.
    Take Niko.
    Take Alexa Smith.

    Go to their profiles - click statistics - click find all posts - save that to favorites in a specially created folder.

    Get up every morning and read their latest posts. This is the fastest way to get the best info on warrior forum. The humor is great too. One of the best parts is where they bust spammers balls for being spammers. I love it

    Seriously give this stalking method a try and drink straight from the well. You'll learn this business a lot faster and be glad you did.
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  • Profile picture of the author Blaine Smitley
    "You forgot CDarklock, Kay King..."

    I'll look them up! And may start stalking you to Paul..
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    The problem with the paid signature idea is this is a marketing forum, and to be honest the majority of users do not abuse it. Believe it or not, once in awhile I do find something useful and/or interesting in someone's signature. I mostly ignore them, but every now and then there is something good. Making people pay for a signature kind of goes against the idea of the forum. I could care less either way, but I don't think signatures need to go.

    I think you also cannot turn off links in messages because from time to time one of us wants to link out to something we found. Maybe a new update from Google, an interesting case-study at some site, or embedding a video clip from The Last Dragon (the best good-bad movie ever made, slightly edging out Big Trouble in Little China, and Anaconda).

    The moderators have a big job in such a popular forum. Everyone can help by reporting spam with the little triangle button on posts. More people doing that would help a lot. It would also be nice if they removed the 60 second limit on reporting spam. A lot of times after reporting one, I forget about the others or simply do not feel like waiting before the 60 seconds runs out.

    A few extra moderators with just the ability to remove posts would probably help (leave the banning and super banning to the mods that currently have that ability), but I don't know how you decide who to trust with that power. You have to make sure they are honest enough to delete spam, not just stuff they do not agree with.

    Shunning spammers might help a little, but 90% of them probably are just people using bots and never actually visit the forum themselves.

    If nothing else changes, you can always force yourself to spend a week at DP. After that, you probably won't think it is quite so bad here.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      The problem with the paid signature idea is this is a marketing forum,
      Disagree Mike. Being a marketing forum doesn't preclude being charged for advertising. Paying is just how the real world of marketing works. I'm seeing more signs of autoposting rising here. How many mods would you need to really squelch that?

      I think its highly appropriate for this board too and would improve the sig offers. If you can't afford to pay a few dollars to advertise your make money online related product or service then you don't really know how to make money online. Whats the big difference between advertising in a WSO or in a sig. Its a marketing forum and WSOs have been running for years and cost cash.

      Lets not forget either that besides the overt spamming we have alot of one sentence answers, inane questions and general but on topic posts that have no other purpose but getting the four or five signature links the posters want crawled. Mods trying to figure out whats legit and not is almost impossible. A deterrent to those who only want to get a link crawled would address that without Mods having to decide whats someone motives are and whether each post actually adds anything
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  • Profile picture of the author Sclark
    I wonder if there could be a way for forum members to earn some sort of points for correctly identifying and reporting spam? This would also be a sign of the member's authenticity.

    By the way, I know a forum where virtually every "me too" post gets mercilessly deleted. I won't mention the name though, cause I think it's not necessary.
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    • Profile picture of the author Elle Holder
      Originally Posted by Sclark View Post

      By the way, I know a forum where virtually every "me too" post gets mercilessly deleted. I won't mention the name though, cause I think it's not necessary.
      I belong to a few niche forums that do the same thing. Any post that falls along the lines of "great post" "thanks for that" "that's what I think too" gets deleted. You HAVE to use the thank you box, not add a post.

      Of course this adds a burden to the mods. You can't just go along deleting posts of x number of words or lines. Someone can give a very succinct one word or one line answer or observation that actually does add value to the thread. So mods have to read everything. Not too easy on a forum as busy as this one.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Okay, let me rephrase that. It is a marketing forum and the owner feels that eliminating signatures or going to a paid model goes against his vision for the forum. At least, that is what has been stated in the past. Could change someday.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Okay, let me rephrase that. It is a marketing forum and the owner feels that eliminating signatures or going to a paid model goes against his vision for the forum. At least, that is what has been stated in the past. Could change someday.

      Didn't know that. I paid to get an image link in my sig so didn't know that was the policy. If thats the stance then its not a viable option. That was my final hope for this part of the board. I don't see anything else working. BTW I know this is not one of the favorite parts of the board and I've seen some sentiments that it should go so I got a chuckle out of the description of this section a few days ago -

      "This section is for discussion about Adsense and Adword strategies, techniques, ideas...etc. Please keep all posts on topic and we'll see how this goes."

      How long has the part I bolded been there? Didn't notice that vote of confidence before LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author easternodyssey
    [QUOTE=yukon;6739208]Seriously getting tired of the spam that is sticking here in the SEO forum.

    I made a comment on this issue a few days ago, in reference to all forums. For starters the Warrior Forum does not seem to be affected that much. Actually i commend them as they seem to be very good at noticing the spam and acting upon it. Many forums have stopped self posting, I could write a long list of SEO, IT and Web Design forums but dont have the energy. Currently for example the Joomla forum which i use more often is inundated with spam, I have kind of got sick of reporting it as well. The problem is there seems to be new automated tools that seem to post the spam, or at least the most noticable spam. I think though a lot of people seem to think that building links in this manner will help them build better links in order to improve there SEO post Panda and Penguin.

    However, even though i say that i think the reason for the spam is more clear. Since the new Google updates people are reluctent to use automated posters in order to gain backlinks. As a result a lot of people are hiring outsources to Build them backlinks with out looking into there credentials in how they go about doing this. This is why i find comments in the Joomla forum such as "What is Joomla SEO" when the person has a Joomla and magento web design sites that both have a Google ranking of 4 and an Alexa ranking of less that 100,000. Personally it seems that the new Google updates has affected people in every way possible and people are constanlty try to find backdoors around the issue.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by Jmart11 View Post

      add more active mods, i nominate yukon
      I nominate Yukon AND Paul. That way your posts get tossed , you get banned and flamed all in one fell swoop.
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      • Profile picture of the author bbncu
        I've noticed a lot of spam too lately..just check out the BMR sticky thread and there are still people giving advice about the 200 word posts for BMR...WTH?

        Spammers are very tricky too..sometimes they start a thread and post a question then log in to another account and answer it...others just spam the WSO threads and a legit person will quote their post and say "spam" and didn't realize they reposted the spammer link...
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        • Profile picture of the author easternodyssey
          Spammers are very tricky too..sometimes they start a thread and post a question then log in to another account and answer it...others just spam the WSO threads and a legit person will quote their post and say "spam" and didn't realize they reposted the spammer link...
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          True, but as i said before most of the spam seems to be generated from a new link building strategy. I think there is many people out there who are selling forum signatures, not the example in the previous post of Indian web designer on the Joomla Forum. I have notices a few sales for Joomla signatures on Google (listed at shocking high prices as well taking into account the amount of links they have built). I think the majority is just generated through lazy idiots who want to retain their position in Google post Panda and Penguin, yet refuse to spend the time doing the hard work.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        I nominate Yukon AND Paul. That way your posts get tossed , you get banned and flamed all in one fell swoop.
        Lol, the SEO forum would be like a ghost town.

        <crickets chirping...>
        Hello? Anyone here? :confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
      Originally Posted by Jmart11 View Post

      add more active mods
      I guess you've never seen this thread before have you, http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...moderator.html
      Everyone is a "moderator" If enough people report a post, it will no longer be shown. Just click the yield sign sign with the exclamation point in it, on the left under their name.
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      • Profile picture of the author tryinhere
        Originally Posted by KirkMcD View Post

        I guess you've never seen this thread before have you, http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...moderator.html
        Everyone is a "moderator" If enough people report a post, it will no longer be shown. Just click the yield sign sign with the exclamation point in it, on the left under their name.
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        While that is true, it nearly seems a pointless exercise these days, and it is nearly tiring in that over half if not more of your time is spent now reporting spam.

        That makes for a uncomfortable viewing experience and may answer many questions like where have all of the oldies gone, many are probably given up, you can only come here and report so much spam.

        There are countless threads that need to be nuked such as what is sem or some other crap that is just loaded with spam post after spam post, yet other threads that are locked with good conversation going on for what ever reason.

        Do not read that the wrong way as yes everyone should help, but facts are there needs to be more mods to take out the rubbish as it is it's a ship pile and just getting deeper.
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  • Profile picture of the author imsun
    The irony is majority of the posts suggesting tips and ideas to get top rank in serp or promoting cpa offer are just about how to spam Youtube, web 2.0, forums, etc...etc
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    • Profile picture of the author mosthost
      Originally Posted by imsun View Post

      The irony is majority of the posts suggesting tips and ideas to get top rank in serp or promoting cpa offer are just about how to spam Youtube, web 2.0, forums, etc...etc
      Yep. Ironic
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  • Profile picture of the author saddists
    Active mods and put image security stuff I n which you have to complete image as given sample.
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