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When i ran my political blog and it was very busy, I’d get a few that I could tell were people, but I also found some that were bots. Have you taken strings of the text and googled it to see where else it’s being posted? that’s how I determined whether it was bot activity or real. the bot stuff, even though it looked good, was exactly the same wherever it was posted.

I’ll have to try it with the next bit of it I run into.  For some reason Googling it never even occurred to me.  😊

Jamie

Maybe this is an answer for you .. I just came across this page when Googling something else ...

“Link Building
I’m searching for someone who can post well on blogs related to dating or relationship. I need at least 100 post a month and my budget is US$25. Also, please don’t post more than 10 comments a day. I will provide the keywords you should use as anchor link. An excellent English skill is necessary but…”

“Quality Link Building By experts is Needed
Link Building, SEO
Permanently anchor text links with descriptions of my website Add 30 links or more each week until you reach 120 or more, 30 pr2s, 30 pr3s, 30 pr4s, etc. Links must be quality links from quality sites and are relevant to the Travel and Tourism industry. Links must be on pages that have Google PR of at least 2 and higher…”

and there’s a page full of them .. https://getafreelancer.com/projects/by-tag/minimal-page-sites.html

Maybe this is an answer for you .. I just came across this page when Googling something else ...

“Link Building
I’m searching for someone who can post well on blogs related to dating or relationship. I need at least 100 post a month and my budget is US$25. Also, please don’t post more than 10 comments a day. I will provide the keywords you should use as anchor link. An excellent English skill is necessary but…”

“Quality Link Building By experts is Needed
Link Building, SEO
Permanently anchor text links with descriptions of my website Add 30 links or more each week until you reach 120 or more, 30 pr2s, 30 pr3s, 30 pr4s, etc. Links must be quality links from quality sites and are relevant to the Travel and Tourism industry. Links must be on pages that have Google PR of at least 2 and higher…”

and there’s a page full of them .. https://getafreelancer.com/projects/by-tag/minimal-page-sites.html

Just sad.  I guess I knew this goes on, but it’s still disappointing.

“Link Building… I’m searching for someone who can post well on blogs related to dating or relationship. I need at least 100 post a month and my budget is US$25…

Horribly sad. It’s like Nike building shoe factories that exploit child labor in third world nations.

The question is, ‘Does Google find those spam links in comments and treat them the same ways as if they were legitimate out links?’

The question is, ‘Does Google find those spam links in comments and treat them the same ways as if they were legitimate out links?’

Probably.  How would Google know it’s spam?

Probably.  How would Google know it’s spam?

I suspect that the only way would be to follow the content trail; matching spam content with link with site. Seems like a lot of effort, though.

This is exactly the reason why I just hooked the forum up to entries on my site. I get absolutely zero spam. So far I haven’t had any forum spam (relatively low traffic - 2000 hits or so a week) but I won’t hold my breath. It’s probably only a matter of time. I’ve been seeing bestcigshop and crap like that in my referrals landing squarely on the register page.

Just come across a depressing blog post:
ha.ckers.org/blog/20070427/solving-captchas-for-cash/
(removed the htttp:// because I didn’t want to link to it - you will have to copy and paste - its safe BTW!)

Look down at the comments and you can see rafts of people willing to bust Captchas for peanuts. 

So we add Captcha, might as well do it as it is a hurdle, but then what? I have downloaded Lows NoSpam module/extension but not tried it yet. The only EE installation I have a forum on is only reachable by logged in members and that’s a fairly closed off-line based society so that’s not a problem but contact forms are. I am seeing increasing amounts of spam coming through contact forms now and that’s just annoying - for me and my clients.

This is exactly the reason why I just hooked the forum up to entries on my site. I get absolutely zero spam.

I have one EE forum which gets very little spam, usually in streaks—three in one week, nothing for months. It’s a blight. Moderation works.

Just a quick follow up here.

I’ve been watching a forum, and yes, there are new bots hitting that can stay on topic, and appear to disucss the current topic.

This bot responded to the topic, including relating it to another issue, and maintained what looked like a conversation. there were a couple tiny things that made me realize it was a bot, but it was, and had I not been really watching I’d have not noticed.

I’ve been watching a forum, and yes, there are new bots hitting that can stay on topic, and appear to disucss the current topic

Link! Link! My kingdom for a link!!

😝

The post and user might get deleted so check now
http://forums.mmanews.com/general-mma-forum/35181-where-you-watching-shamrock-vs-diaz.html

now, look at the post. last in the thread by ‘mma fighter’

Now look at the list of his posts. They look real, but they aren’t. and they are on topic, and appear to be having a real discussion.
http://forums.mmanews.com/search.php?searchid=117120

The most obvious problem? he’s watching the ppv in his home theater. Today. The fight was 4 days ago

UGH and you better hurry. they’re deleting his posts as we speak. there were over 30 a minute ago, now there are 5

UGH and you better hurry. they’re deleting his posts as we speak. there were over 30 a minute ago, now there are 5

Ugh. Had to register. Found two posts but they’re similar to what I’ve seen on a couple of sites I manage. The content appears to be ‘topical’ but without specifics. There’s always a link to some inappropriate site.

Nicely done.

late comment on this post but I’ve been getting about 6-10 of these spams a day. and they come from users who had to register!
deleting those members didn’t help because they seem to have the time to re-register every time, even with different IP addresses.

because valid forum members subscribe to posts, they do get emails every time the spammers post. so I ended up closing the forum!

what other solution is there? captcha won’t help.

late comment on this post but I’ve been getting about 6-10 of these spams a day. and they come from users who had to register!
deleting those members didn’t help because they seem to have the time to re-register every time, even with different IP addresses.

because valid forum members subscribe to posts, they do get emails every time the spammers post. so I ended up closing the forum!

what other solution is there? captcha won’t help.

look in direction of proxy checking not sure how to implement it in EE but it may be worth looking into…