"Comment spam" refers to unwanted or irrelevant comments posted on websites or social media platforms. It often includes links to promote products or services. This type of spam can disrupt conversations, display advertising, or spread malicious content across the internet.
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So, ethics and optics aside, which should be good enough reasons not to
drop comment spam, let me say this.
I love receiving comments so please keep them coming, otherwise I'll have to resort to my most pathetic vice that is
reading comment spam!
You know you've been getting great «results» from buying keyword - rich domains, building anchor text links and
leaving comment spam that all follow this pattern.
Though we generally discuss this concept in the context of bad legal marketing — for instance,
legal comment spam — the principle applies to every industry.
* I'm
defining comment spam to mean the interruption of a thread to provide information unrelated to the thread that's of particular interest to the writer.
For those of you who insist on paying someone to
leave comment spam to increase search visibility: You're wasting your money and hurting your reputation!
Of course, neither is any other kinds
of comment spam welcome (that means you, cialis sellers).
We have been the object of a number of phony comments that passed the reCaptcha test and the
Akismet comment spam filter.
I've already «fessed up to the fact that I read
comment spam so let me explain: they're like the overeager Latin lover I'd have run from.
Figure 2 —
Comment spam Without a doubt, there is the collateral damage from the attack fronted by the hundreds of luring - oriented highly attractive fake profiles.
While personally I tend to like the idea of making
anonymous comment spam illegal, New York's recently proposed bills to ban anonymous online speech, seem like good old - fashioned overreaching to me:
Way back in April, I put up an «open thread» post seeking thoughts on best practices to deal
with comment spam and the general notion of anonymity in blog comments.
Aside from
pure comment spam for links, generic and nonsensical comments are one of the most effective way to hurt your reputation with bloggers and readers.
REVERSES INTO spam blog («splog»)
comment spam very public arguments and embarrassments libel and slander disorganized lists time consumer
Furthermore, some will
even comment spam other legal blogs that is not only likely to have little to no effect on your search engine position, but could also be very harmful to your online professional reputation.
Someone vile enemy, wanting to darken Anthony's and Mr. G's good name, plugged their names and web sites into an auto -
comment spam program to make them appear sleazy.
Anthony and Mr. G deliberately chose to attempt to improve their search engine ranking
by comment spam, and don't see anything wrong with it, or don't care if it's scummy or not.
If you are someone who depends on a good reputation — like a decent lawyer — then it can be counter-productive, as searches for you or your firm can start to return hits on your shitty
little comment spams, or on posts like this.
Anthony, or his marketing expert, liked our analysis on a number of posts — including posts calling out attorneys for
using comment spam.
If you choose to engage in transactions like buying access to the Akismet
comment spam prevention service, you will be requested to provide required personal and financial information necessary for the transaction.
I'm with Nick Holmes, lawyers should know better than to
drop comment spam, or let their SEO company do so on their behalf.
You know, as much as you complain (rightfully) about
blog comment spam, I would think that when someone takes the time to actually send you an e-mail and ASK, you could give her a straight answer.
Some specific campaign tactics backfired as well, with «e-watchmen,» whose job was to monitor opposing blogs and post comments in her support, ending up alienating many bloggers and their readers by posting unsophisticated messages in large numbers — essentially, committing the sin
of comment spam.
Unfortunately, these large - scale link building tactics, handled mostly by outsourced teams with minimal oversight, create gaps in link quality that open the door to bad links,
comment spam, or other unnatural activities.
Yeah, I was having the same problem so I downloaded a neat little captcha plug - in which has solved all
my comment spam problems.
What this does is add what's known as a «CAPTCHA», mostly used on contact forms to eliminate email and
comment spam.
Akismet protects your website or blog from trackback and
comment spam.
The comment spam coming into this blog has really been on the rise, and the word verification feature does not seem to be slowing it down very well.
You have
a comment spam problem...
Comment spam is a real pain to deal with.
On the other hand,
comment spamming is an absolute no - no.