RSS Feeds: Please Don't Spam My Blog
Back in April of this year (2009), I made comment author links revert back to "nofollow" in order to stem the tide of spam that kept coming in. I left the KeywordLuv and CommentLuv plugins active. Leaving Keywordluv active was a mistake which I'm now rectifying. Read on to find out how you can get still get a following link from this blog and what I'm doing to combat spam.
Spam Dammers
I have nothing against Internet marketers. I am an Internet marketer also, but not what you'd normally perceive as such. I don't use spam tactics ever. Those Internet marketers that do, well, I call them "spam dammers" instead of "damn spammers".
Spam dammers don't care if most of their links get deleted. Spam dammers just keep on posting unrelated and spammy comments across as many sites as possible in order to build up backlinks as quickly as possible.
Get a Followed Link
The only way to get a followed link on this blog is to either have CommentLuv enabled on your site (if available) and configured properly or by leaving a link within the comment text. If your comment is actually related to the post/article it's attached to, it will most likely remain in place. If you leave a keyword anchor as the comment author, it will now get deleted. Sorry, but that's how it has to be. If you leave a relevant comment and place a link in the comment text, it will probably remain unless it points to a site in a bad neighborhood. One link, that's it. That's all you get.
As I have time to do so, I'll go through all of the comments on this blog — three years worth — and delete anything that looks even remotely spammy. You are hereby warned of this pending measure.
Why Are You Reading This?
Well, you could be reading this because you actually arrived here through a valid search or…
I am redirecting everyone who arrives at my blog to this post when their search strings contain "yourname@yourkeywords" or they are arriving from a "dofollow" list that I'm aware of.
I want you, the potential spam dammer, to understand why you're here and why you need to leave relevant comments.
[Final Update 7/24/2009: The redirection is being removed. Only 300 pages are still affected with that string and will probably be gone in a couple of days.]
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I fully agree with you. Unfortunately there will always be people trying to abuse the mechanisms that are available. The problem is in the mechanisms, more specific in the importance that Google attributes to backlinks.
Either Google will become intelligent enough to ignore backlinks in blog comments and the problem will disappear by itself.
Or, webmasters should get a tool from Google to report spam links. If many of those linking to a certain site get reported, the site drops in the search results. This way spammers shoot in their own foot and the problem will also disappear within weeks.
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I completely agree with you. Spamming is a problem
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I think spammers are losers.
Actually they don't have to do all this things.
I read this post really nice things are here.
In my opinion, some peoples are to much greedy, they only want back links. So they don't read entire post & submit a spam comment.
Spammers are really annoying. Sometimes, I really don't know how to differentiate real people or a spam comments. It is getting clever and trying to match with human thinking.
At least, spam blog is getting lesser now on my blog since i have install a plugin to block spam bot access but I am not sure whether this is the best way.
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Spamming will always be a problem. Spammers will work hard to figure a way to break all the precautions we have taken. Still, at least by having precautions, it will helps to eliminate spamming from going out of control.
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The Problem is that Everything in the World is Misused by some People… However When Many People start Misusing a Facility.. It becomes Hell.. Keywordluv is a Good plugin for attracting traffic however Without Doubt it attracts spammers..
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Spamming I think is helping other bloggers to get more traffic in some ways and maybe it is one of the reason why they continue to spam…:))
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Just make comment links no-follow or enable comment moderation.
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