Buddy4u vs Spammers March 24, 2006
Posted by Owen in : Website , trackback
Recently, Buddy4u has been the target of a spam campaign. Someone has been making a lot of profiles, pumping them high in Google’s rankings, and redirecting users to a spam page when they click through. For example, Buddy4u is in the #6 position for a search on “tmobile”, #6 on “bcbg”, #5 on “rockport shoes”, #4 on “free nextel ringtones”, and so forth. See my screenshot from the Google Sitemaps website.
Now, of course, I’ve taken steps to prevent the spammers from registering more profiles and deleted all the spam profiles I could find, but the damage is done. While my reputation is (slightly) tarnished, at least these particular spammers won’t see any further benefit out of their illegitimate profiles. I have no idea how they got these content-free profiles to such a high ranking in such a short time, but I’m sure it wasn’t kosher. Sigh. Spammers 1, Buddy4u 0.
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