Comments on: Blog Commenting – Spam vs. Trash

By: Val

Val — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:05:56 +0000

There are programs out there that will do this for them. The backlinks can be a big help in SEO, but since the sites are spammy to begin with I’ll never understand how it would matter. lol I have one site that I need to go back through all my old comments and take out the url. I’m sure it’s the reason it gets hit so much. The comments are usually relevant is the sad part. I don’t delete everyone’s url, but this one site sends me comments a lot and always puts keywords in the name section.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:24:58 +0000

Hi Val

I’m new to WordPress. I have to say it’s great to be able to moderate comments so easily and it’s amazing how many of them are absolute spam. They don’t even use thier own names do they? Wow. What a learning curve.
What get’s me is why do they bother in the first place. It must take them hours to go round searching for blogs and posts to add their spammy stuff to. Maybe it’s worth it it to them if thousands of blogs don’t moderate comments. I suppose there are trash blogs out there to so they would probably welcome all the spam comments if it takes them higher up in search. Does it take blogs higher up in search with lots of comments?
I would have thought that google would learn to recognize how many times a commenter is sent to spam and then automate soem kind of block … but it’s probably to difficult and would have repercusions for others somewhere down the line eh?

Thanks for the post BTW.

Karen
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By: Val

Val — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:13:48 +0000

Sophia, it would be awesome if once you put it in the spam folder it remembered and just fully deleted it next time they tried. So I didn’t even have to go and delete my spam folder. (sigh) we can only hope and wait for that plugin huh? lol Thanks for commenting you two

By: Sophia

Sophia — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:11:38 +0000

Thank goodness for comment moderation, but I wish there was an app that would delete the legit and obvious spam for me.

Spam for me is pretty clear cut. For example, leaving comments on a post that has no relevance, weird names, their links having nothing to do with my blog etc. The copy and paste ones caught me off guard too and the thing is when you click on their link, there’s nothing on their blog/site, so I don’t get where the benefit is for them.

As for trash…anything that is spam.
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By: busymomma

busymomma — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:52:25 +0000

Shelly, I AM GETTING THOSE TOO! The first one caught me off guard as it was answering a question and it sounded good. Well of course it did. I WROTE IT! lol They had copy/pasted one of my replies. My spam plugins do a pretty good job of catching things so I can approve questionable comments.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:26:58 +0000

Great post Val! It seems that a lot of us bloggers are talking about this topic this past week. I wrote an article last week called Business & Blogging – The Benefits of making meaningful blog comments. I wrote the article because I was tired of getting nonsense comments, trash comments and spam comments and I pretty much moderate all blog comments now.

Recently I have seen a rash of blog comments from spammers that are simply copy & pastes of someone elses comment on your blog post…drives me nuts…but all of those get deleted and never get through the front door on our blogs.

Shel
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