Truemors
Stories that are flagged as 'link spam'
On NowPublic, we sometimes get some stories posted that are in actual fact, link spam.
If your story is flagged as such, here is the definition on which we are basing that decision:
Link spam is a post designed to drive traffic to another site or to increase that site's placement in search engine results pages. We also request that any verbatim reprint be placed on NowPublic using our highlight tool to properly credit the original post (even if you are the author). Using highlight provides a clear link back to the source while preserving the original article's search engine results page placement.
There is a way to turn a link spam post into a news story here on NowPublic, and any staff member will be happy to help you do that if you receive this message along with a wrench on your story.
at 12:16 on April 8th, 2009
Thank you, Amy, for discussing this topic because I've noticed that there were some such stories posted with a link to the authors' personal sites, stories, or books that they were promoting.
There's another issue similar in context and that would be those link spams written in the reply section of an individual article. I've seen that in some pieces posted by members, and I've a few as well - though thanks to you and Jordan, they've been removed.
at 12:36 on April 8th, 2009
Thanks for this Amy, I remember over a year ago I posted in this forum about link spam regarding the live streaming spam, it is good that this sort of stuff is now treated as spam.
at 09:57 on December 9th, 2009
So the way this site works is you just give your intellectual work for free here? If I do an article and want to share it with your audience it's a sin to actually link to the article I wrote?
The sites that do the best on the web answer this question very well...
"What's in it for me?"
It's not out of selfishness it's only natural for people to want to link to their work on their site that they work very hard on. It's called giving credit where credit is due. If you are going to setup a site based on a bunch of other peoples work, this shouldn't come as a shock that people want some type of credit.
Just my 2 cents.
at 12:33 on December 9th, 2009
do you have an example of what you mean? did one of your stories get flagged as link spam?
Quote from #3: DoucheVader at 09:57 on December 9th, 2009
at 18:55 on December 23rd, 2009
In reply to #4 Amy Judd at 12:33 on December 9th, 2009
Tenx Amy for pointing out this fact.. I have meet also a case about this problem.
at 22:12 on June 2nd, 2012
Thank you Amy for picking up this topic. It is really very informative for all of us, as sometime it might get into our account. It is always good to see posts like these which tells more about NP in detail!
Thanks for putting it here!
at 22:45 on July 3rd, 2012
Quote from #5: gwafa at 18:55 on December 23rd, 2009
maybe here