Incoming links are generally a good thing, but what about when a spammer starts spamming other sites with your link?
Little background. I run USMC Hangout (
http://www.usmchangout.com)
I was searching through Yahoo to find sites that are either linking to us or talking about us. First several pages are all from relevant sites. Ok great, and then I keep trucking on down the pages and start coming around what looks like other forum boards that were hacked (Some clearly now say HACKED BY:......) and the hacker/spammer will create a thread on that board and along with several other links will have a link to us but in the form of a new reply link (for our board) no skin off my back there as guests cannot post messages.
Here is a Yahoo search page about what I am talking about
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Now my question is...isn't this really bad? Obviously there is nothing I can do, we are talking about hundreds of sites.
Another question...what in the world and why in the world do they have that link for us?