In the last 2 weeks we have seen a rapid spike when checking ahrefs for backlinks. When checking the details the links are pointing to people's forum profiles.
In their profile they have their homepage filled in.
Anyone seen this happen to them with their forum? Anyone know why people are doing this? Why go to so much effort?
I have taken the decision to close registrations on our forum as I am not sure these fake backlinks are going to damage our site.
So anyway is this some new seo black hat trick? And what should we do about it?