Comment spam revisited

Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 8:54 am

Last month I did a post titled “Comment Spam â€“ Are you contributing to the problem? “. One of the comments brought up a good point to consider. Rosie wrote…

On a couple of occasions I have deleted the url with he comment if the comment related to the post. The urlâ€™s are usually one page adsense driven sites. There are no authors for the material discussed. It is very obvious that the goal is a backlink.
However, recently, I suspected that there might be code hidden that tracks approvals. There was a surge in comments after approval of one and deletion of the url.
So, I deleted all the spam PLUS deleted all prior comments that I approved without the url. This post is bring attention to a new wave of comment strategy. I would not be surprised if this is taught in an internet marketing workshop somewhere.Hope you post more about this.

rosieÂ´s last blog ..Are Financial Woes Hitting Baby Boomers Below the Belt?

Now the major point of the post was that these comments that do not seem spammy initially are really spam and you need to deal with them.

Now one of the initial replies was to just keep the comment and remove the back link from it. After all we all want our blogs to be active and having more comments gives that impression.

Seems there may be a downside from reading Rosie’s recent comment on that post.

I do not know this personally because I always delete them as spam. Quite truthfully if you do not add value to my blog I don’t want the comment on my blog even if it means no comments on my blog. May be a bit harsh but that is my viewpoint.

That being said I do believe that some of the automation services do have the ability to check which posts and blogs approve what they send. If you are approving these even if you are removing the links you will have a good possibility of getting even more.

So it is time to fight back and start holding a firm stance on those spam type posts that stroke your ego but add no value to your blog.

Just an old bald guy’s opinion. What is yours?

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