[riffic]

getting that sweet sweet seo backlink juice

[gkop]

Isn’t that why we add rel=nofollow to low friction user submitted links on our platforms?

[ivank]

Google changed the interpretation of those a year ago. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-...

[nurettin]

> Looking at all the links we encounter can also help us better understand unnatural linking patterns.

It appears as though they want to mark these links in order to prevent inorganic SEO, not help it.

[nerdponx]

I don't get it. They post all this spam in the hopes that people click on the links therein, thereby boosting the ranking of those sites? Does that actually work at all?

[rudedogg]

It doesn’t actually require anyone clicking on the links. Google sees inbound links and uses that as a factor when calculating the ranking of the linked page.

[IggleSniggle]

I thought that was how it worked like a decade or more ago, but not today.

[technion]

Regardless of whether it works, people still pay for it. I have a Facebook ad right now that says "Get over 500,000 backlinks for $29.99". No doubt it's someone with a bot that spams comment forms.