Hi all,

 

Often I have seen a blog entry about subject x with a comment such as 'great post' by someone called something like 'abc insurance' ie nothing to do with subject x - clearly this comment is nothing to do with the blog entry and is spam aimed at getting a backlink. So I am just wondering is this kind of spam harmful to the blogger? If this was your blog or your friend's blog would you recommend deleting some / all spam comments or would you, perhaps sympathising with the need for backlinks, let it go?

 

thanks

Delete it all and put as much protection in place against it in the first place. No time or space for spammers.

Hi all,

 

Often I have seen a blog entry about subject x with a comment such as 'great post' by someone called something like 'abc insurance' ie nothing to do with subject x - clearly this comment is nothing to do with the blog entry and is spam aimed at getting a backlink. So I am just wondering is this kind of spam harmful to the blogger? If this was your blog or your friend's blog would you recommend deleting some / all spam comments or would you, perhaps sympathising with the need for backlinks, let it go?

 

thanks

 

Hello, on my website I put it so they have to register to post comments as well as having 'email activation' in place to ensure those that do post have activated their email.

It is not abut sympathizing with some other person on the need of back links. It destroys the true spirit of writing the blogs/articles. We should strictly spam those comments and delete it.

There are tools which can post 30000 comments an hour, they can also sign up and solve captchas. The only true way to defeat these is with askimet as they can mark a URL as spam and block all comments with links for it. But that doesn't matter because this technique is generally only used on satellite sites created for the solve purpose of give a strong link to the clients site and therefore it doesn't matter what technique is used. As long as it works

Thanks for replies. Just to clarify, I think that any comment that is obviously spam such as 'buy your widgets here 20% off at www.spam.com' should of course be immediately deleted. So my question is about a more subtle form of spam eg where the spam link is in anchor text for example:

John says 'very interesting article, thank you'.

 

A non-SEO reader of the blog would not even realise this comment is spam, and a few positive comments like this might be helpful for the blogger. Suppose you have a new blog and only have 3 such subtle spam comments on each blog entry. Would you take a strict view and delete these comments even if it means going back to having zero comments?

To avoid such links will only be beneficial if you have a no follow on to the link if you don't have the nofollow attribute on to the links that means you are passing on the link juice to them some of the people ignore it so that they may be able to show that how popular the blog is but the irrelevant comments decrease the credibility of the page

 

Thanks

Tom Patrick

Stellar Phoenix

Think of its like this:

 

Your link juice is 10 on the page: For every comment on that page with an external link you lose some of your link juice.

If the comment is completely valid and promotes conversation to your blog then this is an alright comment. These kinds of comments will benefit your blog more so promoting conversation and traffic to your blog. Which in turn give more link juice. A comment like "wow great post" "awesome stuff I bookmarked this" etc. will only hurt your blog.

 

I hope this helps you out a bit in the understanding of spam comments.

sry double post

To avoid such links will only be beneficial if you have a no follow on to the link if you don't have the nofollow attribute on to the links that means you are passing on the link juice to them some of the people ignore it so that they may be able to show that how popular the blog is but the irrelevant comments decrease the credibility of the page

Even that doesn't stop the b*****ds

Think of its like this:

 

Your link juice is 10 on the page: For every comment on that page with an external link you lose some of your link juice.

 

OK sorry I don't get this, can you please explain?

OK sorry I don't get this, can you please explain?

 

If you think it is spam it probably is and can only hurt your page. If it is a genuine comment and may generate conversation/ traffic then keep it, it may benefit the page.

You are right all this type of comments are spammer. I really hate this type of comment. We need to protect our blog from these spammers.

 

[blatent spam link drop removed zapped and disposed of]

 

As you spam a forum post with your link...wow lol

Edited September 30, 201015 yr by BlueDreamer
remove spam link in quote