Registered User Spam on my website?

Lynne Level 1

December 5, 2016, 9:29 am

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Registered User Spam on my website?

I've just had a look at the users on my website and there are loads of people that have registered usernames like "Online Business Opportunity" and obvious spam things.

Why would people do this? Would this count as a backlink?

I am busy deleting all the rubbish users on my website. Has anyone else encountered this?

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CryptoGuru

CryptoGuru

Well this is interesting i never heard of of someone making a user account with a spam name. I guess if they post comments that are visible on your site it could direct people looking for those keywords rite to your site. Looks like Mike pointed you in the rite direction i Google it and i found a few plug ins that you can add to your word press account. Mike you window shopping or are you actually buying stuff!?!?!? buahahaha tis the season to go broke for sure.

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Lynne

Lynne

Hi Jkeyz2 I am confused by this now because they have not entered a website url and neither have they posted any comments so it would appear that there is no logical reason for them to be doing that right?

I can't see that it would give them any benefits at all.

7 years ago

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Cristian

Cristian

Do you have a spam blocker plugin? Maybe that is what keeps them for commenting and posting links. Nevertheless, those are all boots made with black hat SEO techniques.

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Lynne

Lynne

Thanks Cristian, yes that is what I thought, it must be bots and then you are probably right,they want to spam but they get blocked.

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Corzhens

Corzhens

I guess those registered users that appear to be spam are only waiting for the right time when the moderator is asleep so that they can do their spamming. I have been to a forum that was clean until the moderator took a vacation of several days. Maybe the spammer sensed the absence of the moderator so it started its attack. Right now there is another site that seems to have no moderator and there are several spam posts.

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