However, we can also enhance the traffic to our website!

For example, we can ask for comments if we create our own article or from shared pages on other websites. Using this strategy, you can also stop popping spam reports on the spam database.

Let’s start with sharing with a spam database, since that is really what all sites do. Sharing is much more personal, and only a very small percentage of the users are defrauding publishers on sharing sites. That being said, there are many scams right now that are claiming to be a fake sharing site and that is a lot of serious reasons to take down the sharing activity.

It’s also worth noting that to prove that a website is fake, your actions are important. Invariant and lazy activity is the issue. Here are some simple actions to consider when trying to catch a website that’s spamming.

Look for date range

This is always a good idea for any site. Sharing an article is much harder when you’re sharing it to 500 people. The sharing that happens under a revised news, though, it’s much harder to challenge the methodology behind it. Things like “This article was originally published on” and “Edited version of article published” are going to be evidence of there being an overall revision to the content instead of just broken down on individual pages.

People share articles, websites, or big apps like Facebook and Reddit that have been around for a very long time. Look for this automatically and easily parsed content, and then act accordingly. However, doing it manually is much easier for you to work through.

Next, check for citations

Getting cited is much easier than just being shared. While it’s great to have your work cited, it’s best to see if other people have actually cited the article. There are two things you can do to easily detect these uses:

Sign up for comments! The right people will let you see that the other side of the argument has seen the article. Go down to the comment page and look for paper tags: small, colorful, small characters. These are a byproduct of the engagement caused by negative comments, so they can be used to find out the side of the story the commenter wants to read.

Share the links

There are a lot of things that we do to increase the readership of our site. According to Eran Kravitz (co-founder and CEO of Tomater.io), that’s what spammers love the most: the heat. If we want our link to continue circulating, we need to get people to click our link.

Using a trusted publisher and an agreed-upon code of ethics and also keeping our work private is very important, and we are not the ones spamming.

Here are some simple tactics that we use to keep our link between the lines: