Comment Spamming
Seriously, how annoying is blog comment spam?
Well, admittedly, not very. But it is bloody irritating.
No sooner is a new blog up and running than you can expect a torrent of blog comment spam. The sad thing is that most of this spam is identified immediately by automated spam filters (well, it is on WordPress – kudos to them for providing a very effective filter) and then two things happen:
- I, and I suspect most others, click the ‘delete all spam’ button and the comments never see the light of day.
- Any products advertised by the spam get added to the list of ‘things I will never buy/read/look into’.
There must be a return on this sort of spam, otherwise why bother with it, which leads to the rather depressing conclusions that some people allow this spam through onto their published comments, and that people actually follow up on these comments.
Much of the comment spam is used to create links to sites in the hope up raising page rankings on search sites like Google (so called spamdexing). But Google are wise to this sort of spamming and filter such results from the rankings, so again, why bother? There must be something I’m missing. Anyone care to fill me in?
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