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Subject: Professional forum spamming is becoming an increasing problem for us.
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Professional forum spamming is becoming an increasing problem for us.

There are sites now that specialize in "acquiring targeted" traffic from forums. That is all they do. They go out and find forums that are ontopic to a customers needs and they carefully "spam" the forum to acquire link backs, name dropping, and often direct url dropping to bring back customers.

Some of the techniques they use:

- Tag teams. One or more agents will start and engage in conversations with each other to add credibility to a thread.
- Post count building. Often, agents will increase their post count, carefully contributing to the 'players' in a forum to beef up "nick recognition", and then slowly introduce a topic.
- Classic Q & A with themselves. Forums that don't watch ip addresses real close often have agents that carry on conversations with themselves under two different nicks.
- Name dropping and whisper campaigns. Often they just drop the name of a product. After awhile they come back and work in the url with some member saying, "oh ya, I've heard of them".
- Profile building. I know one company that targets a particular industry, that has two agents with over 50,000 posts around forums under their nicks. With all that posting, those two agents are now considered "experts" in their topic area - and they are nothing more than salesmen.

The problem? They are getting very good at it.

What can we do to stem this tide?



Thats where Im going

  • 06.21.2004 4:31 PM PDT
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i already know that stuff, oh ya and instant messenger helps.

[Edited on 6/21/2004 4:33:41 PM]

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What can we do to *care*?

  • 06.21.2004 4:33 PM PDT

-S

It's hard to call something a profession when you don't gain anything from it.

Besides, it's difficult to say "Professional idiot" without laughing.

  • 06.21.2004 4:34 PM PDT
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the forums were made for people to spam.

  • 06.21.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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oh! I;m not joining that group of people, I'm contacting them to come to this forum! jkjk

  • 06.21.2004 4:35 PM PDT

Posted by: mods r -blam!-
the forums were made for people to spam.


Dumbest reply today.

  • 06.21.2004 4:36 PM PDT

-S

Posted by: mods r -blam!-
the forums were made for people to spam.


My condolences to your parents.

  • 06.21.2004 4:36 PM PDT
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haha, I dont even have parents they are both dead

  • 06.21.2004 4:36 PM PDT
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ya me too, ur so mean shishka.

  • 06.21.2004 4:37 PM PDT
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Oh you (unsuspectingly) hit below the belt man!

Anyone heard of that new game?

[Edited on 6/21/2004 4:38:32 PM]

  • 06.21.2004 4:37 PM PDT

-S

Neat, using jokes from when I was in highschool.

Well, if it were true, it would explain the deliquency.

  • 06.21.2004 4:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Max Bianco Frex
haha, I dont even have parents they are both dead


He wasn't talking to you,second dumbest reply today

  • 06.21.2004 4:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Neat, using jokes from when I was in highschool.

Well, if it were true, it would explain the deliquency.


r u outta school now? and yes i am a 15 year old convicted deliquent.

  • 06.21.2004 4:40 PM PDT
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Use your Bob Barker voice for this one.

*Drumroll*

No wait.. Its Johnnny or something like that. Barkers announcer dude.

From the price is right.

THE PRICE IS WRONG, -blam!-.

[Edited on 6/21/2004 4:43:50 PM]

  • 06.21.2004 4:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: X THUNDER
Posted by: Max Bianco Frex
haha, I dont even have parents they are both


He wasn't talking to you,second dumbest reply today


Haha this X Thunder kids a loser

  • 06.21.2004 4:45 PM PDT
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God Signed up 5 minutes ago. Not even...

[Edited on 6/21/2004 4:47:26 PM]

  • 06.21.2004 4:47 PM PDT
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yeah i signed up so I could have more accounts to use in case i get banned again

  • 06.21.2004 4:48 PM PDT
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Erm. Who are you?

[Edited on 6/21/2004 4:49:08 PM]

  • 06.21.2004 4:48 PM PDT
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Max Bianco is god

  • 06.21.2004 4:49 PM PDT
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You've got, Banned!

Why?

  • 06.21.2004 4:51 PM PDT
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Your topic got deleted too

[Edited on 6/21/2004 4:53:12 PM]

  • 06.21.2004 4:53 PM PDT

-S

Mike, that's enough.

  • 06.21.2004 4:54 PM PDT
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aye, whatever it takes
-blam!- happens

  • 06.21.2004 4:54 PM PDT
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Oops.

[Edited on 6/21/2004 4:57:48 PM]

  • 06.21.2004 4:55 PM PDT

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