Comment Spam and RErockstar.com
I never liked Spam.
I’m no fan of spam, the food stuff or the internet stuff. Recently, I’ve been noticing comment spam is on the rise on RErockstar.com. As I moderate all comments (mainly to keep spam from deluging the site), this isn’t too big of a deal, but I have noticed something new.
A word to comment spammers.
As RErockstar.com removes the nofollow tag in comments, there is the possibility of gaining some back links to your site when commenting here. I do this in order to help others who want to join the conversation and add to the flow of discussion and information that I put out there. A few good back links from websites that do this and you may find your website ranking much better in Google. I get comments, you get links…we’re all happy. Of course, this also opens the door to comment spam.
Comment spam is often done by bots that make it so clear and obvious that it takes about a millisecond to determine whether most comments are spam (if they weren’t caught by the anti-spam plugins I use – none of them are 100%). Recently though, there seems to be a lot of handwritten comment spam. While most of it is completely harmless (ie not ads for the latest miracle cure), I am cautious about it. There have been several relating to credit reports, mortgages, and even one about wigs. I don’t want my readers to inadvertently click on a link that I don’t back, so these are typically deleted. If the comment relates to the post and ads to the discussion, that’s a different story. Many businesses will comment on posts to build back links, but if you’re going to do it on my site, make the content of your comment relevant. If it isn’t, it’s nothing more than spam – and that affects me and my readers.
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I’ve never had a big problem with comment spam until recently. They do appear to be written by an actual human, and sometimes relate to the post. However, when someone lists their name as being the same as a certain drug used by older gentlemen, that qualifies as spam in my book.
It’s such a waste of time, trying to sort through and delete that junk.
Sarah – Wait, are you spamming me? Just kidding. A lot of the comment spam I’m receiving revolves around real estate (mortgages, credit, etc.) and they link back to blogs that are designed to attract traffic (often with other writer’s work) and make money on Google AdWords. If I go to a site and it’s littered with Google Ads, I typically trash the comment. I’m not against blogging to make money, but I am against steering consumers to bad sites with little useful information (keyword-laden rubbish usually) that isn’t there to promote real estate, but rather designed to get eyeballs and click-through ad traffic.
.-= rerockstar´s last blog ..3.8% “Real Estate Sales Tax” thanks to Health Care Legislation? =-.
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