Spammers are abusing GitHub gists for link building (opens in new tab)

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3 pointsinancgumus6y ago2 comments

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nate6y ago

Yes, but inspecting source, those are nofollow links. So that should eventually deter anyone trying to actually keep using that as a method.

It's entirely possible these are being used by a static site generator or some such. It only takes a real repo to use GitHub pages.

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3 pointsinancgumus6y ago2 comments

nate6y ago

Yes, but inspecting source, those are nofollow links. So that should eventually deter anyone trying to actually keep using that as a method.

It's entirely possible these are being used by a static site generator or some such. It only takes a real repo to use GitHub pages.

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