Hey,
Has anyone else had bots or spammers signing up only to post content from other websites?
The only reason to do this is to affect SERPs rankings.
We have the following on our rules page at https://forums.hosting/help
We continuously get signups only to post duplicate content from other sites which are very annoying. It seems as though someone is doing it to affect rankings for our forum in a negative way. Sure, they are posting content related to the exact question, but the content is just copied from other sites. I don't think bot automation can do that, so it seems to be done manually by someone to cause harm to the forum with Google rankings.
It is easy to spot by just googling some of the paragraphs of text that is posted and sure enough, it's taken from some other site.
What can we do about it?
Has anyone else had bots or spammers signing up only to post content from other websites?
The only reason to do this is to affect SERPs rankings.
We have the following on our rules page at https://forums.hosting/help
VERY IMPORTANT: Do not repost content from different sites to increase your post count as it just causes duplicate content. By copying content from other sites and reposting it to our forum creates a lot of duplicate content which is not suitable for SEO reasons. Instead, you should create unique content or at the very least reword/explain something differently. Failure to do so may result in your account being permanently banned.
It is easy to spot by just googling some of the paragraphs of text that is posted and sure enough, it's taken from some other site.
What can we do about it?
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