I don’t care if you do write hand-crafted comments that are actually relevant to the post contents: If you sign your name ‘inflatables’, ‘pistons’ or ‘Caribbean holidays’ instead of a real name then I’m tagging you for the spammer that you are.
The way WordPress works, then pretty soon any comment you leave on a WordPress blog will go straight to spam.
It’s not worth your time as the SEO benefits are non-existent, it pisses people off and puts you on a blacklist-you have been warned.
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Good to see a resumption (spasm?) of blogging activity, Chris.
(Spasm — that’s spams spelled sideways.)
I have to tell you these spammers are pretty savvy. I have multiple email accounts (don’t say there’s one for everyone of the voice in my head — that’s not nice).
Some of these accounts are more active than others. Guess which ones draw the big-time spam?
Fortunately (?) for me my blogs are so unimportant in the Blogosphere that they seldom attract spam comments.
When you think about it, spam is almost a sign of success, isn’t it?
Thanks C.
Work gets in the way of blogging
Yeah I know what you mean it’s certainly a dubious badge of honour. I just thought I’d make it clear in case any of them whine about getting deleted……
I get irritated when I see my articles reproduced on some splog with a bad neighborhood domain like “gayafricansex.net”.
I use a different CMS and I do not have comments, so no issues with comment spam.
As for me, spam is nothing but a no substance comments. If he talks about something useful to readers why not reward the person with link and the choice of anchor text? Of course, I wouldn\’t accept links and anchor text from sites that promote hate, drugs, and etc.
Spam is inevitable. Just like the first comment poster said it\’s a sign of success. The more you have it the more famous your blog is.
Hear hear.
I absolutely hate comment spam.
Just looked at my askimet stats and it’s marked over 1000 as spam -v- 5 genuine real life comments.
I really don’t understand the point of it - as if you’re going to allow a link to some dubious site.
It’s got to be computer generated or do they set up a comment template and try to distribute it as far and as wide as possible?
I’m with you John, but as with email spam enough people DO follow it to make it worthwhile…..