How long until Social Spam achieves the same notoriety/problem as Link Spam used to be

[ilyaelbert]

What are people's thoughts on whether or not social spam will become a major problem soon, just like forum profile/blog comment spam, etc, and what do you think the search engines will do about companies that are blatantly gaming the social signals game

I.E. since social proof seems to be google's answer to combating anchor text manipulation and content farms, what do you think will be google's answer to combating the rampant social spam that will surely overtake us.

[JohnW-UK]

Maybe they will analyse how many links are put into social posts? If someone just posts with links in them it will treat them as spam. Also I think search will look into sharing how many times something is shared/re-shared/re-tweeted etc? It's a numbers game as Dr Pete said is his last video you have to try and stay ahead as google made 600+ changes to search last year....

[FrontlineMobility]

Greetings Champions!

I have given this issue a large amount of thought and the best solution I can think of, is something of the nature of Klout score will be used to determine social Authority.  I feel that in the very near future Google will start analyzing social aspects and judge activity, audience, and things of that nature to balance out the social spam. This is just my theory on the situation, but I feel it would be very effective, because the other day I saw a G+ account with nothing but keywords in the description and a link to the website that showed up page 1 rank 1 for a keyword set. Like I said these are just my theories on how it will be handled in the future, Good luck on your quest Sir Ilya of Elbert!

Justin Smith

[SEOBrent]

I would imaging that Google will rely on profile authority (how many people "like", "tweet" and "plus one") things they share.  The new Page Rank of social profiles almost. Then will come the paid mentions (just like paid links) and all that garbage.