Comments on: Fake Spamming by SEOs? http://www.katemorris.com/2009/09/fake-spamming-by-seos.html Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:51:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kate Morris http://www.katemorris.com/2009/09/fake-spamming-by-seos.html/comment-page-1#comment-1371 Kate Morris Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:50:43 +0000 http://www.katemorris.com/?p=842#comment-1371 Hey Mergen! Welcome to my site. The deletion of image files was separate I think, but we will never know. Twitter is going through some growing pains again, and I have a feeling this is just the beginning. Hey Mergen! Welcome to my site. The deletion of image files was separate I think, but we will never know. Twitter is going through some growing pains again, and I have a feeling this is just the beginning.

]]> By: Kate Morris http://www.katemorris.com/2009/09/fake-spamming-by-seos.html/comment-page-1#comment-1370 Kate Morris Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:49:23 +0000 http://www.katemorris.com/?p=842#comment-1370 You are probably right. I guess we can start deeming it "fake spam" as most of us have no bad intentions, but are "super users" that might seem bad to automated algos. You are probably right. I guess we can start deeming it “fake spam” as most of us have no bad intentions, but are “super users” that might seem bad to automated algos.

]]> By: Mergen, WebGuru http://www.katemorris.com/2009/09/fake-spamming-by-seos.html/comment-page-1#comment-1369 Mergen, WebGuru Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:33:47 +0000 http://www.katemorris.com/?p=842#comment-1369 WOW, this is horrible. My Twitter account profile background image and profile photo etc had all somehow reset recently. It is probably unrelated but... Let's just do a toast for all the good-doers out there! From Mongolia with Love, MC WOW, this is horrible. My Twitter account profile background image and profile photo etc had all somehow reset recently. It is probably unrelated but…

Let’s just do a toast for all the good-doers out there!

From Mongolia with Love,
MC

]]> By: Gregg Hilferding http://www.katemorris.com/2009/09/fake-spamming-by-seos.html/comment-page-1#comment-1367 Gregg Hilferding Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:50:13 +0000 http://www.katemorris.com/?p=842#comment-1367 I suspect our behavior puts us statistically much closer to spammers than regular users. It may be as simple as having multiple accounts accessed from the same IP in too short of an amount of time. I suspect most of us have at least a few accounts that they regularly access throughout the course of a business day. Compare that to "non-SEO types" who simply don't have multiple accounts or, if they do, only rarely switch into their alternate accounts and I'd bet it's a pretty strong signal for them. Another good signal for them is probably the ratio of tweets that include a link and the ratio of links to particular sites. Spammers link a lot to the same site (or network of sites) and so do most social media marketers. Since algorithmic solutions are a necessity to defeat the worst kinds of automated spam, I expect we'll experience the most collateral damage as social media sites tune their algorithms. I suspect our behavior puts us statistically much closer to spammers than regular users. It may be as simple as having multiple accounts accessed from the same IP in too short of an amount of time. I suspect most of us have at least a few accounts that they regularly access throughout the course of a business day. Compare that to “non-SEO types” who simply don’t have multiple accounts or, if they do, only rarely switch into their alternate accounts and I’d bet it’s a pretty strong signal for them.

Another good signal for them is probably the ratio of tweets that include a link and the ratio of links to particular sites. Spammers link a lot to the same site (or network of sites) and so do most social media marketers.

Since algorithmic solutions are a necessity to defeat the worst kinds of automated spam, I expect we’ll experience the most collateral damage as social media sites tune their algorithms.

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