A quick look at the different kinds of spam that can be found on popular story voting sites like Digg and Reddit. By creating a keyword targeted page or profile on a strong, legitimate social media domain and pointing several hundred backlinks at it, spammers are able to pump their link up to the top of Google for very competitive queries.
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"The user Katbo (according to his profile has zero Diggs, zero friends, two submission and two made popular!) most likely got his press release to the home page by purchasing random Diggs from a blackhat pay-for-votes service, orchestrating sock-puppet accounts, or by soliciting friends to vote via e-mail. Recently I came across a more effective, outside-the-box approach of spamming by using Digg and Reddit for parasite hosting. Here’s from the page one SERP at Google for "buy Viagra" Good stuff. For those of you who have Not Yet Met Brett From Tibet it is a good bet that you will because this guy has skill and knowledge for a newbie that most vets could envy. Seriously, I had lunch with him and after reading his posts when he told me he was just getting started this year I couldn’t believe it. Of course, when he told me how much he would charge for some linkbait copywriting I couldn’t believe that either ! But I guess confidence in your ability and knowledge of your own worth is a good thing. Plugg Over. Good post Brett.