Ask HN: What is this HN spam bot doing? I just noticed a user, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vipbababd, that seems to be taking a random comment in a submission and reposting that comment in the same submission. The user profile contains a link to a stream to an upcoming boxing match. Is this an SEO play? Would this even work for SEO? Or hoping to farm some karma and then sell the account? |
If you guys notice more duplicate comments appearing in threads, will you please let us know? This was a pain to fix manually, so the sooner the better.
Google doesn't penalise big sites for spammy backlinks compared to a fresh domain, and also with the high authority, it will rank a lot quicker.
A good way to find example of Parasites is to search "Fortnite hack". I can see links from LinkedIn, Steam Workshop and a PDF hosted on a hacked (presumably) website for a roofing company.
By "popular" I mean more relevant for Google.
What about backlink providers, there's thousands of companies that try to increase your ranking by backlinking for you, does Google penalize those companies?
I admire them, in a very weird and mostly despised way.
My guess would be someone testing something.