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JOB POSTING SPAM
Revolution of internet has brought massive increase in online job opportunities. Internet is the No.1 place for searching good job these days. Traditionally people used to find jobs from yellow pages, newspapers and other media. Now due to the popularity of internet more and more people come online to search for jobs.
Popularity in online job search has increased the number of job sites to very high levels. Today you can find 1000s of job sites that are willing to accept a job posting for free. Job sites benefit from the job exposure. More people post job on their site better their site is. To lure more job postings, job sites offer free job postings or free trial offer. 100s of jobs are posted online on job sites some of them are valid but most of them are there to either lure people into some sort of home based Business or MLM business or some sort of online scam. Some job sites moderate these sorts of spam / scam posts and will remove them. But immoderate job sites are flooded with these sort of junk.
SEO spam also adds up to the fake job posts on job sites. Almost all job sites allow you to embed your links in job posting. Also the links can be live link and html. Nofollow tags is not used by many job sites and Search engine manipulators, takes this as an advantage and create fake job postings with an anchor text link or regular html link to their sites. Some job sites like monster, simplyhired.com, yahoo jobs have high PageRank and a link from their website is valuable for the linked website. Some SEO companies recommend spamming job sites as a part of their SEO strategy.
Posting jobs can also help indirect SEO; it is possible to attract good traffic to a website which can turn into links if a user likes it. Using job sites for SEO is a typical search engine manipulation technique. Job sites are meant for employers and people seeking jobs. Using job sites for the purpose of gaining backlinks is a SEO spam.
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The screenshot talks about Job posting spam in Craigslist website. These job postings are nothing but scams that are posted in order to cheat the users and derive unnecessary traffic to their sites.
The above mentioned screenshot depicts example of fake job scams that are posted in job posting websites, in order to spam the search engines.
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