I've posted this before but I'm posting it again because they keep making new accounts, so hopefully we can have a discussion on it here since it's very much related to PC's and I'm sure the community has come across these PC tech websites.
Websites owned by BGFG are engaging in link farming on Reddit, they are exploiting the community-driven nature of the site for personal gain. Link farming involves spamming links to a specific website across various subreddits, often with low-quality or irrelevant content, in an attempt to boost the website's traffic or search engine ranking. This practice clutters discussions, degrades the user experience, and undermines the authentic, organic exchange of ideas that Reddit thrives on. Moreover, it can lead to distrust among users and dilute the credibility of the platform as a whole. In the end, link farming benefits only the spammer, at the expense of the integrity and utility of the community.
BGFG is a media publisher and agency that owns a bunch of brands spanning from PC gaming, technology to lifestyle. Some of their brands are:
PC Guide
VideoGamer
N4G
WePC
Silent PC Review
PC-Builder
Here is the proof, these reddit accounts only post links to BGFG's websites and spam them all over reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/user/EngineerSeb/submitted/?sort=new
https://old.reddit.com/user/Tiny-Independent273/submitted/?sort=new
https://old.reddit.com/user/Dapper_Order7182/submitted/?sort=new
https://old.reddit.com/user/Background-Path-5619/submitted/?sort=new
https://old.reddit.com/user/Odd-Onion-6776/submitted/?sort=new
https://old.reddit.com/user/pompompomvg/submitted/?sort=new
https://old.reddit.com/user/Automatic_Can_9823/submitted/?sort=new
https://old.reddit.com/user/Tech_guru_101/submitted/?sort=new
These are the only ones I found when searching for pcguide spam, I haven't even looked at videogamer spam yet.