Spammers spammed my website forum - Reason to worry?

[allassignmenthelp]

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[Travis_Bailey]

You definitely did the right thing in the end. It doesn't look like your site took a hit recently. UGC spam is no joke, especially for forums. I've seen quite a few take a penalty from the same issue.

If you cleaned up the problem, you're likely in the clear. Most of the time the profiles are building links for adult, pharma or casinos. Which in turn links to another profile or forum post - usually with anchor text well outside of your forum's interest. However, this one appears to be fairly close to the theme of your site.

Yeah, that part is a little too close for comfort. But it's likely a site can't be knocked out/penalized in a short period of time.

Since you're asking the question, you may know about this page. It pretty much infers that the algorithm probably wouldn't have liked pages with those posts. It states that if it comes to a manual action, then it would affect the whole site.

It appears like a lot of other Webmasters are clearing up your external problem. I see a lot of lost links in recent history that are basically comment/forum spam. Just keep an eye on your link profile for a while, to be safe.

[allassignmenthelp]

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[Travis_Bailey]

Wull Hullo Thar,

Does this mean my website's theme is similar to adult, pharma or casinos?

Nope. Sorry, the anchor text links were fairly close. Stuff about internships, etc.

"It appears like a lot of other Webmasters are clearing up your external problem"

I didnt get what you are trying to convey from this statement.

Obvious spammer is obvious. I would imagine a good chunk of the spammy backlinks pointing to your site are being removed by those spammed upon. Majestic SEO is showing a pretty solid trend for deleted links, all of them seem to be profile/forum/comment spam.

[BlueprintMarketing]

I have  a few theories on what could have happened.

First one is you allowed users to generate content that is spam in Google's eyes.

Your selling a product that allows students to cheat and not judging you but Google might be.

You have too much internal duplicate content.

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http://www.allassignmenthelp.co.uk/

http://www.allassignmenthelp.com/

Here is a copy of your card back links using Ahrefs

http://cl.ly/X3b4

You can do the same thing with Moz open site Explorer here.

http://moz.com/researchtools/ose

Or

hreflang

http://inbound.org/discussion/view/can-i-use-rel-alternate-hreflang-x-is-used-in-country-specific-domains

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en&ref_topic=2370587

http://www.davidsottimano.com/google-language-country-code-reference-sheet/

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/getting-a-better-understanding-of-hreflang/60468/

You have a copy of the same site running in the UK without it being properly set up for lang From what I could tell you were allowing all these content forms to be followed by Google bot when a college student asks you for a answer from what I can tell that I have and use the way back machine to look

http://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool

http://flang.dejanseo.com.au/

http://suite.searchmetrics.com/en/research?acc=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allassignmenthelp.com#filter={"filter_home_chart":{"fxch":"organicpaidvisibility"}}

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en&ref_topic=2370587

http://www.internationalseomap.com/hreflang-tags-generator/

http://www.themediaflow.com/tool_hreflang.php

You answer them with a standard you can sign up here link.

In my opinion this forum idea for students to copy off of each other is not way to handle people that you are going to give one phrase answers to.

Just give them an FAQ with a very clear you must pay to get anything more than a response of us asking you to pay.

I do not see the value of having a form

I think in your case the best remedy would be to have a private help desk of course I think that would be valuable here are three great help desks below.

Of course I also found your site is built in Britain as well using .co.uk however you boilerplate them each of them even have the same problems with their language tags they both see EN–US

I believe Google did not agree with the content that was being created that you allowed anyone on the web to create.

Any form such as this one has to be heavily monitored to a point where if people are putting out bad information they will regulate the form 24/7 365 did you do this? Did you allow students to help each other maybe?

I have attached some images below along with some help desk tools that keep everything private if you are running a business and you want to get people answers to legitimate business questions you should give them privacy.

I believe forms are excellent for a lot of things however because plagiarism is such a big deal in school if you have a form where you allow people to upload papers are things like that even the questions you are going to cause a lot of problems for yourself and the students.

here is a quick look at your back links Ahrefs as you can use OSE here on Moz to look at them as well. I have also done a site line check you have a lot of tube look at content internally on your site

http://cl.ly/X3hZ  (site line duplicate internal content)

http://cl.ly/X3rR Ahrefs ( if you need me to print out the links I will export them)

what I think you should use in replacement of a forum because she seemed to give the same answer to everyone

**Help desk software **

http://freshdesk.com/

http://www.desk.com/

https://www.zendesk.com/

http://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/check?uri=www.allhomeworkhelp.co.uk%2F#validate-by-uri+

http://copyscape.com/view.php?o=7388&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.savenkeep.com%2Fmy-maths-co-uk-homework%2F&t=1408071127&s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allassignmenthelp.com%2F&w=28&i=2&r=2

You have

allassignmenthelp.com

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allassignmenthelp.co.uk

each with en-us

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• when reviewing your internal site content please take this into consideration
• Is your content informative?
• Do you create original, unique, relevant content on a regular schedule?
• Do you update content other than just the blog page?

You need fresh, unique, original, relevant content added to your site on a regular basis. While the blog is a great place to do this on a site, you need to add to the site in more places than just the blog.

I hope this is helpful to and I me know if I can be of any more help. Because everything is destroyed and I honestly do not have enough time to look in the way back machine and check out everything I tried and it keeps raining back to your site so I will be happy to search more for you if you would like however I agree with Travis I believe that he is right.

Sincerely,

Thomas

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[BruceA]

Hi

We use wordpress and have set our settings to "Admin must approve comments"

We get hit all the time with spammy comments, our top tip would be to ensure that you never allow comments to be published without Admin approval.  Therefore you can delete them (edit) on the Blog back office and mark them as spam and links can never be established in the first place

Bruce

[BlueprintMarketing]

looks like you took care of the language issue from what I can tell

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-GB" lang="en-GB" dir="ltr">

what do you think about using the help desk in replacement for a forum? It is completely private that way you can have tickets to go out to whoever you are dealing with and none of it is indexed.

I also believe that using WAF CloudProxy.Sucuri.net   allow you to white list customers whom  you trust this is an inexpensive WAF but a very effective one. I believe that would limit the user created spam to a minimum.

Sincerely,

Thomas