Comments on: Comments on my Blog: When is it Spam?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:52:54 +0000

No afraid not, I was just merely making a point.

Great point RE the content still relevant, and this is a prime example.

Thanks for the thoughts on comments, will see how it goes…

By: Nichola

Nichola — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:45:04 +0000

Oh so you’re the one that keeps leaving the “bro” spam on SEO-Chicks?

My view on closing off comments is that despite the age of the post, the discussion and debate may still be entirely relevant.

I agree with your line of thinking on making your blog comments followed. You can deal with any blatant spam yourself and agree that you will probably entice the right kind of commentor.

Also – I don’t really subscribe to the concept of “equity leakage” or pagerank hoarding; though I wouldn’t think if the value of allowing follow links as being the potential to be listed on dofollow blog directories. I would see the value more in the additional UGC and the opportunity to grow a true community.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:55:19 +0000

Hi bro, so I am commenting on an old post, am I spam? I am afraid not…

First tip everyone, remember you can disable comments on posts over a certain age such as a month old etc. This will reduce a huge amount of spam.

My second point, or rather a question. Is well crafted comment spam (by real people) a good or bad thing? One of my blogs gets a number of comments, let’s say 15 per day on average, and I would put 10 of them down as spam. However I am actually considering making that particular blog comments a do follow. here’s why…

My site is geeky / tech stuff, the majority of my traffic comes from referring sites and social media (over the past month approximately 17% has come from google). I have a weird thought in my head that IF I made my blog comments do follow (with strict guidelines of not crap anchor text and a constructive comment) I would actually increase my blog views (people specifically coming to my site to post), increase my page views per visitors (browsing for the subject they wish to ‘spam’) and I would actually end up with the type of user I want on my site (an SEO geek bored in their job creating links, and loved finding my content to pass the day away…). Now yes I may lose some ‘link juice’ but the extra links I would get from people listing me as a ‘do follow’ blog would outweigh this.

Thoughts?

By: @tokyito

@tokyito — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:48:45 +0000

Lol. saw the title of this on your homepage and in the recent comments is a nice little keyword rich anchor text of “cheap true religion brand”. I guess know these guys or Akisment (or similar) is giving out some false negatives.

By: Miles

Miles — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:58:22 +0000

In my previous blogs I got hit by so much flipping spam that I decided to remove comments altogether. Most of the crap came from either India or Russia. Having read this blog I might turn the comments back on and have a go at building a community.

By: Ritz

Ritz — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:29:16 +0000

Happy to help!

By: Nichola

Nichola — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:50:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip-off @Ritz. Appreciated

By: Ritz

Ritz — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:43:57 +0000

Just as a side note, the link at the bottom of your post to the Social Media 101 has 1 too many http:// and is currently showing up as a broken link .

By: Nichola

Nichola — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:19:04 +0000

@Dean – much as I’d love to kick off a blogstorm, I’m with you.
@Rhys – you’ve raised a good point here and I agree with you that old posts are often the target.

To you both, when the respective platform and plug -in are ready, by all means come drop some links as it sounds like both exercises will be extremely relevant and useful; plus that is what building online relationships and blog communities are all about!

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:28:53 +0000

Spam is a huge problem on my blog! I’ve got about 100 comments (10 in mod queue, 90 in Akismet), almost all of which are spammy comments. I am a huge Nazi when it comes to spamming/not spamming comments though, and here’s two more I’ll add to the list:-

1. Is the commenter commenting on an old post? Often spammers target an older post, particularly if their keywords match up with the keywords of the post.

2. Little of a plug here, but I’m putting some finishing touches to a plugin I call InComment (there’s a version of it on my actual blog, but I’m making it compatible for WordPress 2.9). Basically it drops a cookie when people enter the site based on the referrer. It’s not perfect (if somebody’s using some software such as Comment Kahuna it won’t show as such), but you can see if people search on Google for phrases such as keyword +”Top Commenters” + “wordpress” +”Leave a Comment” -”Comments Closed”, or using search engines such as comment hunt (which I change one letter when referring to it in not so polite public ). Anyway, it helps finding out true intentions of commenters