Blog Comment Spam
Blog comment spam. What is it? Why do people try to fill my blog with blog comment spam? Ever heard the expression “a little information is dangerous”? I think that is the case with blog comment spammers. They get their links banned and waste everybody’s time!
Blog comment spammers try to drive traffic back to their website or affiliate link by commenting on thousands of blogs across the internet using scripts and automatic blog commenting software.
Most blog comment spammers are also under the misguided assumption that ANY link back to their website IS A GOOD THING (no matter where it is from) and they will make their website RISE UP in the search engines. WRONG!
You can easily track your traffic with a WordPress blog. Here is an example of a Blog Comment Spammer. (you can see their ip address)
Blog Comment Spam Discovery
Blog Comment Spam ip search
Do a quick Google web search of the ip address and what do you find? Blog Comment Spam!! 30 sites visited 745 blog spam attempts.
Blog comment spam ip address
Blog Comment spam Prevention
Akismet is a popular free blog comment spam prevention plugin for WordPress.
Note. Because of the increase in blog comment spam, WordPress is automatically setup to use the rel nofollow tag with all comments. ( no follow ) about blog no follow tag
The comments or blog comment spam never adds any real value to the blogs that are posted to. Today’s search engines recognize comment spam and no longer reward the spammers for their efforts as they did in the past.
blog comment spam examples:
Simply: Johns free blogs (( no content or useful info there! ))
OR: Amazing Article an commentary! I ever so truly savored the actual studying you put into the topic. I hope to get the time to study all the subjects on your blog. You have more information on this topic than I have ever seen! I am exceedingly satisfied with your resources. (( Um … what topic? … what information? ))