It is just not enough to be a good webmaster or web developer. You might have done sufficiently well in protecting the site from getting hacked and keeping the comments section free from any sort of spam but it does not end here. Now that you are a proud owner of a site seeing enough visitors from not only Google but also other search engines for that matter.
You will obviously be expecting a lot of users to create profile and spend hours together on your site. They will do that either by posting in forums or joining dedicated groups of their choice.
However you will have many other users creating and filling accounts with gibberish content. Also the worst thing they would probably do is add some unwanted links and use small JavaScript code for redirecting purpose or some fake content which will take other users nowhere.
This is the spam world. With the ever quickly growing social networking niche, this web world is becoming increasingly difficult to manage. Spammers are always on the lookout for any type user content which would help them get potential traffic.
An encounter with experienced web developers will bring you to the fact that this is already a menace. Below you will find certain tips you need to keep in mind when talking about spam profiles and ways to clean the same.
Why to manage and remove spam content? There is hardly anyone who will want the first impression of his or her site to the visitor to be bombarded with a number of disgusting business offers and inappropriate pictures.
Also your users or visitors should not be hounded with invitations which are mostly fake; this would discourage them from visiting your site again. Thus if a site links to parts of web which don’t bear good reputation and contains contents full of spam then it is sure to lose the trust of search engines in what is a fine site otherwise.
What is the need for spam profiles? Spammers generally employ spam profiles with nefarious intentions. They are ways of intruding a user space internally, especially on social networks. This is quiet similar in operation to what an e-mail spam does.
The main idea behind this is to indulge a user or a friend into making purchases or downloading any malware via a link by sending heaps of messages and friend request. Using spam profiles for this matter is also another way to promote obscure redirects and links among users.
This whole thing does not cost anything to the spammer and on the contrary uses your reputation for his/her good. The latter idea is gaining strong momentum. Fake profiles are usually using the profile name of reputed companies to intrude. Also to make their profiles known in searches they will provide links of their gibberish and fake profiles to other hacking sites and spam content.
Sites used for the purpose….it is obvious for may to think that their site is generally not huge enough to attract such menaces, however it has been found that apart from well known social networking sites even the smaller ones are getting spammed.
In general you will get a lot of CMS’s which will help you generate and deploy interactive features easily but they can be largely misused as they generate content automatically also, like Moodle or Joomla.
What is the solution? Make sure to have a number of standard and solid security features which includes Captcha’s.
Using blacklist for preventing spamming links is a viable solution, often a number of links point to one single spam content so try and remove those links.
Finally checking cross-site scripting, non-indexing of profile pages, monitoring spikes and spam full pages will eradicate this problem.
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