Spammers are abusing GitHub gists for link building

3 points by inancgumus 6 years ago | 2 comments

nate 6 years ago |

Yes, but inspecting source, those are nofollow links. So that should eventually deter anyone trying to actually keep using that as a method.

efreak 6 years ago | |

It's entirely possible these are being used by a static site generator or some such. It only takes a real repo to use GitHub pages.

nate 6 years ago |

Yes, but inspecting source, those are nofollow links. So that should eventually deter anyone trying to actually keep using that as a method.

efreak 6 years ago | |

It's entirely possible these are being used by a static site generator or some such. It only takes a real repo to use GitHub pages.