Comments on: Do not Buy Blog Comments

By: Hjemmeside

Hjemmeside — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:43:35 +0000

Hehe. The funny thing about this article/blog post is, that the first two or last two comments “money” and “click” or blatantly blog comment spam and you approved their comments. They have keywords as name as their comments are as general as a comment can be. You have fallen into the trap :)

By: Click

Click — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:39:38 +0000

Hi, Just thought I’d let you recognize your website is rendering weird in my K-melleon browser. Looks good from what I can see however.

By: Money

Money — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:41:56 +0000

I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:10:35 +0000

Nice on the nofollow. As long as search engines look as the number of links to the site rather then content on the site this sort of spam thing will just keep on happening

By: mlankton

mlankton — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:19:53 +0000

Garbage comments suck, whether on blogs or forums. Fortunately for WordPress users, the combination of akismet and moderation will make it a non-issue. Unless your blog gets John Chow kind of traffic I imagine.

By: Aral

Aral — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:01:36 +0000

@bela: Bless, are we a little slow or are we a spammer too?

Blog spam is theft. You’re *stealing* from bloggers.

You have no right whatsoever to spam a blog. It’s not your space. You’re illegally putting your advertising (stealing space, benefiting from page rank and clicks) on the blog that you’re spamming. And you are poisoning the information on that blog and doing a disservice to anyone reading it.

If you’re a spammer, you’re nothing but a petty thief and a nuisance.

By: bela

bela — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:51:06 +0000

This guys just jealous the guy is making money,
your nothing but jealous all your trying to do is knock his money making scheme.

Why get jealous when somebody makes money?

Leave the guy alone if he wants to spam and earn for a living then thats what he wants to do.

By: Marky45

Marky45 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:29:58 +0000

this must be the worst idea yet and this is definitely gon to be hated in the blog community, back links for the most pages from the top you will see that it doesn’t matter what PR they have, That is just plain stupid. The way I feel is simple is a person comments in my blogs, the comment is relevant and on topic and the link does not go to some “bad thing” and otherwise complies with my comment policy I am fine with it.

By: hugh

hugh — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:43:37 +0000

I like the fact that he calls it the “blogspear” not “blogsphere”, as it’s commonly known.

There’s education at it’s best. He is an incredibly sketchy person, to be sure.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:35:44 +0000

The solution is simple.

1. Google and other SE’s need to actually enforce nofollow. Lots of empirical evidence that they do not.

2. Implement various anti-spam turing methods. When nofollow was introduced, only a small % of blogs had anti-spam methods. There are even 3rd party services in addition to turing tests to help prevent spam.

There is real value in allowing blog commenters whatever minimal link credit they might get from a comment link. Don’t punish the legitimate commentors, deal with the problem before it even gets in the door.

Nofollow is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Fix the problem as its root, i.e. prevent the spam in the first place. There are real methods to do this that will solve 95% of all comment spam. The remaining 5% is either tolerable (e.g. thinly disguised comment spam from outsourced human services to bypass turing tests)… or can be solved with moderation or a self-policing system like on craigslist and various forums.