Comments on: Monday Rant on Sneaky but Dumb Comment Spam

By: Ann Wagen

Ann Wagen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:05:10 +0000

I have to admit that I’m a newbie! But I do find it very tedious to have to read through 20 spam comments a day. Most, if not all of them don’t even try to hide the fact that they are spammers. As if any of my blog readers would be intersted in a comment about Viagra! Oh well, I’m finding that it comes with the territory.

By: Adam Holland

Adam Holland — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:14:00 +0000

Yea, I have to deal with this too ALOT because I blog on ‘home based business’ topics too..
basically some people will just read some SEO niche ebook they bought for $7. Then they’ll understand that if they get backlinks to their site w/ the anchor text “home based business” or “make money from home” that it’ll increase they’ll search rankings for those keywords.
The problem is those keywords have been so over-used that it’ll take YEARS of them commenting on others blogs, blogging on their own site, marketing, and a bunch of other things to get their site in the top 10 in search results for those keywords..
Meanwhile, we’ve got to waste our time marking their comments as ’spam’…
Damn newbies.. haha

Adam Holland

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:53:43 +0000

Snoksred

I look forward to your post on commenting. I don’t think any of us has the perfect answer. As I indicated, I was willing to give yesterday’s spammer the benefit of the doubt, until I found the identical comment on another post. As I said, dumb. I really don’t mind someone saying “great post”. In fact, I like it . But the fact is, it’s a flag for a possible scam. Typically, with that sort of limited content comment, when you click on the link you find it takes you to a link farm or a MFA (Made For Adsense) site, so you know the “commenter” is just using your blog for link bait. My policy, as stated on the site (see sidebar) states that I reserve the right to delete comments which are “using this blog’s comments function just to get a free ad for a product or service”. I have no problem with links from legitimate comments to genuine sites with original content. And by the way, your blog is very entertaining – love the story of your father’s car which is too irreplaceable to be driven anywhere without an armed guard

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:42:20 +0000

I’ve just written an article on commenting on blogs (and am just about to start a new comment challenge myself) but it may not be on the web for a few days, it might be interesting to you.

Your post makes my heart rate rise a little, because I often comment “great post” – if someone is doing a great job I like to let them know, if I enjoyed a post I like to say so, and if I add someone to my google reader I comment to let them know that – google reader doesn’t tell bloggers how many people are reading their feeds. If I add someone to my sidebar, I comment to let them know I’ve done it. My comments are legitimate, so sometimes you do see that in a legitimate comment

A lot of people are putting actual links (as seen below) back to their blogs in comments these days because it does make it easier for people to get to their site or blog. For example, if you look at my blogger profile you’ll see five or six different blogs there and people might not know which one to click on – people mentioned their confusion about it to me so now I always put a specific link. Some readers of blogs don’t know that they can get to someone’s blog by clicking on their name. These are different things to comment spam.

Anyway, I just thought I’d mention a different take on it. I’ll let you know when and where it ends up on the web.

Snoskred

http://snoskred.blogspot.com/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:08:07 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Leah. I’ve actually been meaning for some time to do a post on this sort of comment spam, so it was a lay down mazaire, really.