What to do with spammed forum?
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This site was one of those "seemed a good idea when I was getting into IM" projects. I have a PHPbb forum built out on the subdomain forums.xxxxxx.com, with nothing ever done with the main domain name, a name which I am kind of sad to part with as I still think it has potential for a good site.
Hadn't touched it in years, totally dead forum, I was thinking of selling it for the PR2 which that "forums" subdomain has, which could be redirected to the root domain, but had a look and realised there are thousands of spam backlinks to member profile pages (now non-existent, since I deleted all the spam signups). DAMN, they got round the non-standard bot challenge question at some point and I never noticed! One backlink is on a pahe with 15000 OBL on it - BIG ROFL!!
I realise this is normal for a forum, Google almost certainly makes some kind of allowances for this, otherwise all forums would be penalised. Weird thing is the PR2 on the forum homepage must be thanks to those spam backlinks!
I reckon I might redirect all the 404s from the deleted member profile pages to the homepage and get even more juice from all those backlinks, perhaps even a higher PR. But I can't use the domain for an SEO network myself as it's been on my shared hosting, and I probably can't sell it now, shame, it's quite a nice little domain name.
Any bright ideas?
Hadn't touched it in years, totally dead forum, I was thinking of selling it for the PR2 which that "forums" subdomain has, which could be redirected to the root domain, but had a look and realised there are thousands of spam backlinks to member profile pages (now non-existent, since I deleted all the spam signups). DAMN, they got round the non-standard bot challenge question at some point and I never noticed! One backlink is on a pahe with 15000 OBL on it - BIG ROFL!!
I realise this is normal for a forum, Google almost certainly makes some kind of allowances for this, otherwise all forums would be penalised. Weird thing is the PR2 on the forum homepage must be thanks to those spam backlinks!
I reckon I might redirect all the 404s from the deleted member profile pages to the homepage and get even more juice from all those backlinks, perhaps even a higher PR. But I can't use the domain for an SEO network myself as it's been on my shared hosting, and I probably can't sell it now, shame, it's quite a nice little domain name.
Any bright ideas?
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