Little do they know that marketers frequently employ bots, or low - paid net jockeys on the Subcontinent, to flood legal (and non-legal blogs)
with spam comments in a highly offensive, and usually fruitless, attempt to build their clients» web presence.
However, if you don't moderate your comments, leaving your posts riddled
with spam comments, you might actually be hurting your posts» chances of appearing in results.
Combine
this with the spam comments that I see on at least 25 % or more of articles posted here or accounts made specifically to approve articles by certain websites.
Akismet — this one comes preloaded on WordPress blogs and will save you a ton of time
with spam comments.
Not exact matches
Sites Google deems to have an influx of inbound links
with sloppy anchor text,
spam comments or guest posts on disreputable sites, suffer harsher penalties than ever before.
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.
With our easy Website Builder, your website gets RSS feed, a post scheduler,
spam control for
comments, automated social media sharing and more to function exactly like any popular Blogging CMS
Keep writing,
commenting on other blogs, and posting your posts on social media sites (without
spamming them), and you will do well
with blogging.
John, you've
spammed this blog several times
with comments about atheists burning forever and whatnot.
(and please don't
spam comments with «how did the universe start, where did it all come from».
your
comments are silly nonsense
spammed at people
with honest opinions.
We do have some problems
with comments getting stuck in our
spam filter (and
with thousands of
spam comments each week, some
comments are unfortunately simply lost).
Admin what is it
with my
comment not passing ur
spam filter... It's getting boring composing a text and not have it posted..
There is something wrong
with my
SPAM program and it is moderating nearly all the
comments.
Please leave one
comment on this BLOG when you completed the steps
with your email address in this format — «name at host dot com» to avoid
spam, but make our ability to contact / find you easier!
You may have noticed that I edited your
comment, please be careful posting links on my website as my website is moderated and if you
spam with links you may be blocked.
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.
Since you're a paid troll I know you'll follow but not
with original
comments you'll just
spam mine like the loser you are.
Before you again
spam my inbox
with 50 +
comments arguing about how you disagree about the majority position of certain subcultures on weakly defined political axis» I rewrote that section to be less «controversial».
It is a pity that the space for
comments is been taken over
with spam... I guess The Scientist should be able to remove it!
I'd rather not
spam the
comments with the link so do you have an email I can send it to you?
I try to catch them
with my
spam filter and
comment monitoring, but sometimes the really clever ones get through.
Hopefully it saves you from getting
spammed with annoying
comments on your Insta too!
Oh I'm not a friend
with those annoyed
spams, they came to my
comment hundred and hundred per day.
We also experimented
with Google Plus
comments when they claimed it was far superior to the traditional way and it removed
spam.
To help
with this, we are setting up some basic rules and guidelines to help alleviate
spam and other issues found within the
comment system.
And maybe, just maybe, that little act of solidarity will mean there's one less abandoned blog out there, filling up
with unfiltered
spam comments.
What happened
with the romance community thread is that, as readers
commented on the topic, several authors hijacked the thread,
spamming it
with everything from angry spews to jokes from joke books, anything to derail the
comments.
Jetpack also helps block
spam comments, automatically arranges related posts, and connects
with Twitter and Facebook to share your blog articles as soon as you publish them.
After
spamming 102 out of 104
comments on my author website one morning last week, I thought it was time to write up a post on minimizing
spam on your website to share
with you.
If you would like to write to me
with a question,
comment, tip that helps you on the Kindle, praise, and even complaints, you can do so by sending an email to michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I write it that way in a small attempt to avoid the
spam robots).
Also, if you're tired of dealing
with spam on your business blog, your Facebook page can be a great alternative to blog
comments.
If your blog gets big, you will have to set up a Captcha to strain out machines that try to register
with you and send
spam comments.
PREFACE: Some obnoxious shithead has been
spamming this post
with some of the pettiest
comments I've ever read in the entire existence of Internet vitriol.
I kind of did a longish
comment with a number of links in it - do
comments like that get screened to make sure they aren't full of
spam?
Nearly every damn article is Pokemon go crap, some of them getting near top article
with only a few
comments (they are likely
spamming views).
Lewis Dean, your
comments will be treated as
spam unless they at least attempt to be a conversation
with the post or any of the
comments from other visitors.
I have never tried to moderate my
comments (except for
spam, which is why you might have a
comment with embedded links held for moderation — I am looking to filter people selling male enhancement products, not people who disagree
with me.)
So feel free to leave all the
comments you like, or interact
with this site in other ways... we are not harvesting your personal information in order to
spam you later, like some other sites do.
Comment spam is a real pain to deal
with.
We get the occasional «advanced
spam»
comment (I had started to write «intelligent
spam,» but that is way too kind) as well (for example, here, on Monday's Blawg Review post) and, frankly, struggle
with where to draw the «unpublish» line.
The trouble
with using the WordPress
comment feature is
spam.
This would, presumably, cut down on some
comment spam, at a pretty minimal cost — one - time sign - up, occasional log - in (
with proper cookie management).
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.
As a result of the recent kerfuffle
with our
comments, I've taken another look at our
comment spam filters and found that it's very difficult to achieve the results I'd like through the use of filters alone.
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.
I would rather put up
with a bit of annoying
spam, which can be deleted by a moderator, than limit the ability of legitimate timely
comments that for one reason or another can not be made other than anonymously.
So Google, along
with Yahoo! and Bing decided to come up
with a solution to try and cut down on this «
comment spam» and devised an attribute that a webmaster could add to links that he or she could not vouch for, or did not trust.
Even though your
comment amounts to
comment spam, * I'll keep it up because I happen to agree
with what you're saying.
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.