Social Media Breed Imaginary Friends

By Mike Moran. Filed in Organic Search |
Tags: social media, Spam

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You’re familiar with search spammers, but have you seen the latest? You’ve seen spammers load up keywords on pages and set up link farms, but have you seen how they create fake people in social media? To see the most recent search apam technique, check out my latest post on Internet Evolution, “Social Media Breed Imaginary Friends.”

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Comment by Andre:
Friday, February 19th 2010 at 1:44 pm |
Nice share. Im appreciated by this post. My website has also been attacked by spammers in the last month. Thanx

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