Are the Two Pretty Chinese Girls following me an Advertizing Ploy?

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   Paul Kennedyposted 14 years ago

   I'm new here so I was just curious.

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      LarasMamaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      An advertising ploy for what? Basically it's almost worthless having members from the site view your hubs - hubbers don't click ads, just give feedback.
      You want ad clicks from google which means quality articles with good keywords and 500+ words.

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      pisean282311posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      wow one of them has 141 followers in mere four days..its raining followers for them...

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   GreenTieCommandoposted 14 years ago

   I'm also interested in this. They do appear fake
   opaljj
   johnsonyv
   
   If you look at their hubtivity, they follow like 150 people each in one second interval. I got a screenshot of that.  My bet is that this is another one of those "article marketing" services like traffic geyser or something.

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   Cagsilposted 14 years ago

   An advertising ploy? No.

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      Slainiaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I think what Paul means is the concept that they're simply spam-following members. I followed a previous hubpages member to see what happened. Within 12 hours their profile was empty of all hubs, and they were following no one/nor being followed.

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   johnsamsposted 14 years ago

   johnsonyv followed me too and I saw a lot of people have them as followers. I dint follow him/her back since they dont have any intersting content. Its strange that they have quite a good amount of "fans", since they are non stop following people
   Weird!

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   GreenTieCommandoposted 14 years ago

   Found another one:
   
   sharpmj
   
   Do people follow them back out of common courtesy and a pretty picture?
   
   They are obviously using software to follow people, you cannot follow 10 people in 10 seconds naturally!

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      GreenTieCommandoposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Ok, it is a spam invasion! Look at the followers of any of these people, they are all the same: name + 2 letters, joined about 4 days ago.
      
      Another one:
      larrybm

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   Susana Sposted 14 years ago

   I'd suggest you flag their profiles if they're spamming, especially if you suspect it's automated spamming.

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   Polly Cposted 14 years ago

   johnsonyv has almost 300 followers in three days - and only 3 hubs! There is another one  - sharpmj

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   Pcunixposted 14 years ago

   The thing about following back these people is that if they never do anything, there's no trigger to make you stop following.
   
   That johnsonyv had followed me before she got started rolling down the list;  I followed back hesitantly because she hadn't done much.  It was only by chance that I noticed her later hubtivity following person after person.
   
   If I had not noticed that or this post, there would have been nothing to bring that account back into my consciousness.
   
   If they start spamming, they'll get unfollowed.  If they don't, what have they accomplished?  You could have every single person here follow you and that would give you exactly nothing in terms of juice outside of here.  Google doesn't care, Bing doesn't, nobody does. 
   
   Pointless crime, I think.

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   earnestshubposted 14 years ago

   In my experience, none of them will be here long!

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    LeanManposted 14 years ago

    What is benefit of following everyone every second... apart from getting hundreds upon hundreds of back links to your profile...
    
    When you follow someone, you have a link from their profile back to yours, so a link from someones profile that has thousands of links can be quite "juicy"....

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       Pcunixposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Ayup, I  did forget sbout the profile page.
       
       But until they spam, that profile page juice is useless, and if they do, no doubt they will be quickly flagged and made to disappear.
       
       So they accomplish what?

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    Kangaroo_Jaseposted 14 years ago

    If you have a look of two of the aforementioned profiles, they look like the 'same' gal, just with different hair and a slightly different pose

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       johnsamsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       haha probably they just picked a picture from google.. not a real pic for sure

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    NightEmpressposted 14 years ago

    They are following me as well.

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    timorousposted 14 years ago

    These people seem to think it's a social networking site, as though following others = friends.
    
    Maybe Hubpages should emphasize the purpose of 'followers' to new Hubbers when they sign up.  Perhaps there should be a limit on how many people you can follow in one day/hour/minute.
    
    It's all very silly.  Until they start spamming, there's really no harm done, I guess.

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