Comments on: Who Benefits from Blog Comment Spam?

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:51:00 +0000

So get a blog comment is to increase their corporate website or social good source of backlinks. Some people have to pay a blog comment spam people in a blog comment spam do they get. Only a network of other zero.

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By: Romita Negi

Romita Negi — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:04:00 +0000

Well Blog Commenting is a good source of getting backlinks for a website or to increase their business by getting social. “Someone must be paying people to write spammy blog comments” – by writing spammy blog comments what do they get from this?? Nothing other than a zero network.

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By: Sportbike Accessories

Sportbike Accessories — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:35:00 +0000

We really think it makes sense to have the comment spam filter is an integral and not optional Blogger. Your comments on the blog, marking it as not spam false positives or false negatives marked as spam will help.

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By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:16:03 +0000

No worries, when I see “angry blogger”, I bring out my outside voice by default

Anyway, I really *did* intellectually want to know why actual people were spamming. It's a fascinating little MT project, probably a nice little money-maker abroad.

I'm not really bothered by spam. I get why it's there, and it's mildly annoying. More funny though, especially the mispellings and hearty greetings and platitudes about my posts.

Spam section sounds like a good solution, but unfortunately, we can't have anyone overtly promoting just anything here. That wouldn't last long, methinks.

By: angry blogger

angry blogger — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:40:14 +0000

The post was not directed at you, sorry if it seemed that way. I'm just pointing out the fact that many web masters actually drive away traffic by being way to hard core with comment moderation and deletion of comments. The way I see it a real user has taken the time to go to the hassle of actually posting comments, they are probably more interested in my page then a user that does not post comments. I personally try to do everything possible not to alienate such users.

I agree though you do get waves of spam from time to time. Some times you do need to take more drastic measures. In general I think your approach seems quite reasonable.

Something that really helped me a lot was adding a spam section, In the spam section I let people post spam and promotional stuff with few regulations and I allow them do follow. This works great diverting and containing spam posted by humans. Around the comment area of every page I add a link to the spam section. If your blog software allows you to implement this, I would recommend going for it. Saves me a ton of time.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:36:54 +0000

I don't moderate comments so everything shows up here, including spam comments that aren't trapped by Disqus.

When I wrote this post, spam comments were overwhelming the real comments, making it tough to track any discussion. Since then, spam has returned to normal levels.

Sorry if a comment of yours has been trapped by the spam filter b/c it had a link. I'm actually not that annoyed by spam comments, just curious about the economies that drive them, especially the ones that aren't automated.

By: angry blogger

angry blogger — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:46:30 +0000

Wow people just blab on and on and on about spam, heres my recipe for success don't moderate comments period, once a month I go through and delete the really spam like entries that add nothing to the conversation.

What I don't understand is why people don't spend more time actually writing decent articles, now that would be a novel idea. You blog may suck but at least your not a spammer LOL.

A lot of people I know don't even bother to post any more as it seems like most of the time the comments don't get through anyways. When you start getting this anal the bad guys have already won.

Of course no days God have mercy if you post a link, even if it's on topic it will get deleted. Before you flame me to death yes I deal with spam all the time, it's annoying but not the end of the world. If you can't handle spam find another business cause its not going away.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:23:58 +0000

Contributing to the conversation is what's missing from 100% of the comment spam I see here.

These are spam comments specifically b/c they *only* seed links for page ranking purposes and offer nothing else. Digging deeper, we did find links buried in the comments that appeared to have none.

By: ravm

ravm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:09:51 +0000

@Jen
I understand how some people might think this practice is sad, but you obviously haven't seen a business go from unranked to top 10 using these techniques. I have. Depending on the niche, there's a lot of money to be had for landing a top 10 result.

@Jake
It's not so much expert as it is easy. Link popularity building is very difficult for certain businesses, depending on the topic. Commenting offers businesses a chance to (hopefully) contribute to the conversation and include a link to their product or service. As for the random spam without links, I'm still trying to figure that one out.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:15:52 +0000

Ha, agreed. What's so “expert” about that idea?

Now I'm thinking about Juice, that movie with Tupac . . .

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:20:28 +0000

I know of some people who call themselves SEO Experts who charge to post in blogs and forums hoping/thinking that the link back ( in the user name or actual post ) would be enough link *juice* to increase page rank. Sad.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:18:24 +0000

Interesting stuff. Thanks for dropping the knowledge.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:10:33 +0000

Theirs only one reason for link building and thats seo, you may be getting a few that are making you scratch your head and I would just conclude that its a new guy. Linkbuilding is a big bus., seo= alot of money. These companies bring in cheap labor in Pakistan, India etc. or maybe its a freelancer on his first job and is not really sure what hes doing. maybe there first testing the water to see if the post gets auto published, maybe there pros and trying to see what type of software your running to conclude if they can post a dofollow link in the description. Bottom line 1 goal to get a dofollow link on a article related to content on the other site to increase page rank and other seo ranking factors.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:03:22 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I assumed it was related to SEO, but some of the spam comments didn't have overt links, but as Daniel mentions, even if Disqus doesn't surface a link, it's in there somewhere.

Maybe you can shed some light on the manual human process of recent comment spamming. Obviously, they're not trained to look for nofollow.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:40:58 +0000

You ask why , what are they getting from blog comment spam? its for seo benefits, they are trying to increase there page rank with outward links, this page has a page rank of 4 unfortunately posting a link from it will have no effect as your blog software has the nofollow attribute but commenting systems that dont have that such as the older ones will pass page rank. They also establish relevance by posting to certain articles sites etc http://www.storecoders.com

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:10:07 +0000

I think that's what Disqus is starting to do. They may be trapping phrases too, since there were a few that were repeating. I'm still wondering why?

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:01:40 +0000

I wonder…if a login has a large percentage of 'link' comments (like 100%) a spam detector may highlight it for investigation. If that same login make a whole load of verbiage without links, it may not come in for the same scrutiny.