Welcome to the vBulletin support forums! In our community forums you can receive professional support and assistance with any issues you might have with your vBulletin Products.
VERY IMPORTANT: Do not repost content from different sites to increase your post count as it just causes duplicate content. By copying content from other sites and reposting it to our forum creates a lot of duplicate content which is not suitable for SEO reasons. Instead, you should create unique content or at the very least reword/explain something differently. Failure to do so may result in your account being permanently banned.
We continuously get signups only to post duplicate content from other sites which are very annoying. It seems as though someone is doing it to affect rankings for our forum in a negative way. Sure, they are posting content related to the exact question, but the content is just copied from other sites. I don't think bot automation can do that, so it seems to be done manually by someone to cause harm to the forum with Google rankings.
It is easy to spot by just googling some of the paragraphs of text that is posted and sure enough, it's taken from some other site.
Since it's copyright infringement (not fair use) I would report it to their ISP.
You could also make it impossible for new users to post links. I've seen sites create a usergroup promotion so that a member has to post a certain number of times before they are promoted to a usergroup that has link posting privileges.
If you're already using the Spam Management tools in the system (Settings -> Spam Management) then you should moderate the first and/or second post of registered users. If their posts are approved, you can promote them to a new user group that has more posting privileges.
However, if you keep up with the forum and delete spam regularly then the posts won't affect your search engine ranking.
Translations provided by Google. Wayne Luke The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
vBulletin 5 API - Full / Mobile
Vote for your favorite feature requests and the bugs you want to see fixed.
Thing is they don't post any links. Just information from other sites.
In Human Verification Options
I have it set as reCAPTCHA™ 2.0
I also have Akismet and Stop Forum Spam enabled.
Got a good idea why it's happening. I'll just be reporting the IPs to spam databases. And will check with ISP if continues and really needed. Dam annoying.
It is an attempt to get around context driven spam filters like Akismet. They wrap their links in text that isn't necessarily related. We have it on this site all the time. Just have to remain vigilant. Report and remove.
Translations provided by Google. Wayne Luke The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
vBulletin 5 API - Full / Mobile
Vote for your favorite feature requests and the bugs you want to see fixed.
Hi there! I see a lot of spam on my forum lately, and there's a couple things I would like to be able to do, not sure how though.
Most important would be detecting a phrase as spam, so it...
Wed 18th Oct '17, 11:33pm
Working...
X
We process personal data about users of our site, through the use of cookies and other technologies, to deliver our services, personalize advertising, and to analyze site activity. We may share certain information about our users with our advertising and analytics partners. For additional details, refer to our Privacy Policy.
By clicking "I AGREE" below, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our personal data processing and cookie practices as described therein. You also consent to the transfer of your data to our servers in the United States, where data protection laws may be different from those in your country.
Comment