{"id":366,"date":"2015-09-13T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2015-09-13T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:50:27","slug":"instagram-hubs-are-bad-are-just-link-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/13\/instagram-hubs-are-bad-are-just-link-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Hubs Are Bad &#038; Are Just Link Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You open up Instagram. You see that someone has posted a photo you took. They say stuff like, &#8220;Congratulations, you have been featured!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are they featuring you out of the goodness of their heart?<\/p>\n<p>While I was running the <a href=\"https:\/\/instagr.am\/igerssf\">@IgersSF<\/a> account, I would notice that featuring photos more often benefitted the @IgersSF account than the folks I featured in terms of likes and follows.<\/p>\n<p>How can you tell the difference between a hub and a real Instagram community?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hubs never asked your permission to post your photograph. More in depth details on this at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diyphotography.net\/instagram-hub-feature-photo-copyright-grab-instascam\/\">DIYPhotography<\/a>.\n<li>Hubs hardly if ever communicate back after they featured you.\n<\/li>\n<li>Hubs have owners that are elusive and are rarely seen in the real world. They might even be bots coded to auto-feature *cough* steal photos, and grow an account.<\/li>\n<li>Hubs never give back to the community.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s the solution to hubs? Google came up with a solution a long time ago for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Link_farm\">link farms<\/a>, and it&#8217;s about time that Instagram implement it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Search engines countered the link farm movement by identifying specific attributes associated with link farm pages and filtering those pages from indexing and search results.&#8221; <em>(from the Wikipedia article on Link farms)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A similar thing can be done for Instagram hubs using a Bayesian filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You open up Instagram. You see that someone has posted a photo you took. They say stuff like, &#8220;Congratulations, you have been featured!&#8221; Are they featuring you out of the goodness of their heart? While I was running the @IgersSF account, I would notice that featuring photos more often benefitted the @IgersSF account than the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/13\/instagram-hubs-are-bad-are-just-link-farms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instagram Hubs Are Bad &#038; Are Just Link Farms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}