Social Media – Hotspot for link spamming
Social media has become the hottest place for link spamming. People tries to send as much duplicate links as they can to gain higher link popularity . In fact it’s one of the biggest reason behind MySpace’s demise. Recently, twitter implemented URL shortener to fight against spamming, which checks all the link send through direct message and then shorten using twt.tl root link.
Does this effort really gonna control link spamming on twitter? I personally believe it’s more about controlling the outside content instead of controlling the spamming. Anyways, twitter claimed that they have reduced the link spamming to 1% (which was more then 11% in april 2009). Good for them!
A new kind of link spamming was recently discovered on facebook, people use to send some deceptive post along with their link on wall and spammers spoof the user profile during attack and lure them to link to some phishing sites. spammers use some methods (probably the banking trojan or keyboard stoke logger) to access the user account first time. Being a SEO expert i doubt it gonna help anyone in getting high rank. Yeah, it will increase link popularity for sure but what about bounce rate? as spammers don’t bother to reply on their post and google also consider bounce rate in their search algorithm.
Well, I understand it’s really hard to eliminate spamming,in fact Google says “spamming is almost impossible to eliminate” although Google has started banning your site if you do the same.
Happy SEOing,
Upendra
