Blog comment spam magnet
Tim Finin, 8:14am 1 July 2008A good fraction of the comment spam that makes it through our Akismet filter is from people who are trying to add a comment to one of our posts about spam blogs or comments. Here’s an example from today’s batch, a comment on a two-year old post Blog comment spam with plagiarized text: hard to spot from cameroun trying to promote the site africapresse.com.
“spam is a real problem in this day not just for .edu but for the entire internet world. Plagiarism is a problem too.”
It’s easy for me to classify this as spam since the comment was made on a very old post, is short, includes a reference to a site that looks commercial, makes a few general and superficial statements that are not really tied to any of the posts details.
I think it’s ironic that so many SEO wannabes try to spam posts about spam. I guess they just have spam on the brain. So, I offer up this post as food for the comment spammers and their search and comment tools.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
I think it’s ironic that you decide to single out 1 site that’s prolly one of the least commercial just because they posted 2 years late. There are more than enough spam on that blog post since the first post. It’s still an honestly amusing fact though.
What classifies as spam? Would my comment be erased because I might have said something offensive (I have utmost respect for you btw)? What if you write something informative but it’s short and sweet? What if it’s thought provoking yet uses a spam link?
July 24th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Well but not anything is going through your Askmet Filter,
the biggest magnet for Manual Spam is if you are ranked high in Google for Search Terms, Blog Comment.
And for a .edu backlink a good SEO will just spend 5 minutes to write a theme relevant comment and post just some URL in the Website Field.
But why not giving a Backling as a Tribute for a relavant Comment.
That prectice is even better than this dozens of bot generated Spam entries.
December 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hi Tim,
Just wondering how you think your comment spam magnet is doing?
To me it seems to be a pretty weak magnet since the comments that have been posted seem to be contributing to your blog post.
Anybody that takes the time to read your article and write a comment that contributes to the discussion cant be considered a spammer even if they have a link back to a commercial website with related anchor text.
Whats the difference between commenting on a blog post written 2 years ago and one written 2 days ago. If its still a valid subject that someone has an opinion on, why not share it?
If you have any knowledge about this blogging platform, you would know its has nofollow commands on outbound links so anybody spamming this post for backlinks are wasting their time anyways.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
So, you don’t like spammers, but still spam on this post to attract the spammers from Google, such as myself. Cool
But basicly I’m not spaming, I mean how is this not a legitamte comment? 
February 20th, 2009 at 2:40 am
Hi ther,
My site msunil(.info)/myblog has been hit by spammer like hell. All the porno ppl are targeting my site. i have 6500 spam comments to be moderated and jhate to see the number every time i log in.. i used akismet and spam karma but its been of no help.. is there any way to delete all those spams at a go instead of deleting them batch by batch?
March 6th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Wow… was going to spam here (seriously…started typing and everything) and then, for some reason I stopped. Reverse psychology? Don’t let my wife find out!
April 9th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Spammers who try spam their spam here won’t get a so called “vote” from this blog because the links are set to rel=”nofollow”. So a backlink from this blog/page is not nearly as powerful as a page that has a rel=”dofollow”.
I hope I just made sense…
Furthermore Edu and Gov domains are SEO-wise very attractive to gain more pagerank. Edu and gov domains are SEO-wise(to get backlinks from) better than top level domains like .com and .org.
Furthermore, the Akismet on my WordPress installation does a wonderful job:-)
@Sunil: that’s horrible! So many spammers >:( I know how it feels because my forum was under attack of porn spammers well…
August 15th, 2009 at 9:17 am
If the links are set to “no follow” what’s the point in spamming a link? I’m a few months after the last poster, does that automatically categorize the comment as spam? You might want to loosen your filters.
May 4th, 2010 at 9:36 am
May I know how can you find out the spam on website…In comment the viewers will share there thoughts..If you don’t want there comment, before approve you can moderate that post..
Thanks…
August 15th, 2010 at 7:28 am
Who likes spammer :/ Whatever…