Tons of Disguised Spam
I don’t know what happened lately to cause this, but I am getting a lot of disguised spam. I don’t know if various poker affiliates think they being really coy and sneaky or whatever but there are a lot of people posting normal-looking comments with their poker affiliate site URLs in the web site field. I guess they’re doing this to get a link even though it’s nofollow’ed (ie, supposedly doesn’t pass PageRank to help with search engine rankings).
Let me just make it clear that unless I know you, your site and I think it’s a good site, I am not going to approve the link to a poker affiliate site. I’ll just remove it from the comment and move on. Sorry, but this isn’t the place for you to come to to get links in comments.
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I have pretty much a similar policy. If your comment is something like:
Interesting. Didn’t know people spammed comments.
I remove the link back to your site.
If you write two or three paragraphs of on-topic thoughts, regardless of whether I know you or not I keep the link. Hey, you’re adding value and you should get some too.
Bill Rini
February 26, 2010
Yea I’m not opposed to linking but I’m not going to fall for someone who goes around commenting on 80 blogs a day with stuff like “I don’t know if you should remove those links” or something like that on this post. Screw them imo.
Nat
February 26, 2010
Automated comment spam is huge at the moment. Alongside the regular spam culprits, a bunch of SEO companies are using the technique for otherwise legitimate businesses (who are unaware of what’s going on) because Google used to not penalize sites for the practice; rather they just ignored spammy comment links. This has recently changed, however, and Google *is* penalizing sites for it under some circumstances (such as a particular ratio of spam to high-quality links).
Nate
February 28, 2010
Pretty amusing, since your blog seems to mostly serve the purpose of improving your SEO for your business. Who would come and think “gee, i bet i can slip a link in on his blog as a competitor and he won’t notice”
Dingo
March 28, 2010
That’s not really the “purpose” of my blog. I started blogging long before I really even knew what SEO was/is.
But yea, I know what you’re saying.
Nat
March 28, 2010