Spammers on Steepster

Seems to be an attack going on now. All kinds of new people with products and escort services popping up.

I just “killed” it but it will take a bit for them to leave the system.

I am killing a bunch of new stuff coming in on the explore tab.

We cant get them all. I had 2 follow me with .com business site descriptions.

I have often wondered what the point is to these spammers. No one here is going to give them business no matter how many posts they put up. Why bother?

There are big SEO firms that are hired by companies (small and big alike) to boost their ranking in search engines like Google. A really easy (but ineffective) way to boost your ranking is by increasing the number of sites that link to your page. So the SEO firms hire really cheap online labor to spread their client’s links all over the web. Those links end up on places like Steepster and what not that allow account creation and content posting. We do what we can to prevent automated actions like this, and even manual (human) activities too, but at the end of the day it’s pretty tricky to stop a person who is getting paid to spam your site and as many other sites as possible. For them, it’s really just a numbers game. Get as many links as possible for a minor “boost” in ranking.

All sites that have any reasonable amount of traffic have to deal with spammers like them. It’s just part of the game I suppose…

I have been catching a lot on the explore feed.

Awesome. I really appreciate it.

It’s gotta be spam. Nothing real could sound so disgusting.

http://steepster.com/johnpethor – too old