A few months ago, I posted about being on Courtney Tuttle’s “D-List”, and how I was getting spammed by people with no name - instead a string of keywords. It calmed down for ages but in the last week or so I’d been getting a lot more than usual. As a cheap way of blogging, here’s some of the best:
From My Post on Rhyse Richards comes this:
“Welcome to sharing your name with porn star!! Start being worried if you get people searching for Rhys’s jugs”
“Welcome” would sound like you also share your name with a porn star. Well, try as I might, I couldn’t find one called “Alien Adoption Articles”.
When I first posted about Courtney Tuttle’s “D-List”, some guy called Latest news of Linux posted this:
“Is it good for all the sites or just the spams…“
So to answer the age old question, do they read your blog? Sure, even though they appear to read the post, they don’t actually read it. Hell, they probably pick up on the title, or a couple of sentance, and ignore the rest of the post.
Not every comment I delete because of there being keyword rich names. Oh no, some comments I delete because they’re abusive stereotypical arseholes who hide behind yahoo e-mail addresses, such as pete pernicker:
“What’s wrong dude? Couldn’t you find any sheep to shag?”
Admittedly, it was for the post me with the title “Don’t You Know That Rome Was a Fucking Shit Day“. But the post is a happy one!
Finally, SEO Web Design set out a great message of professionalism with their comment on Corey Worthington - Party Liason.
“Unrepentant guy…This is how some are teaching their new generation. Sad to hear that but this is dickhead.”
I know SEO experts focus on keywords rather than full sentances, but I expect them to be able to formulate full sentances in their comment!
I do what I always do - send them the e-mail with a link to my bid directory and advertising page. But I’ve added one more sentance, which I will repeat here.
Comment keyword stuffing does not work. It disassociates you with the blogger in question, makes you look like a git, and harms your reputation. Worst case is making your email associated with comment spam (yes, I’m looking at you tahin4u at gmail), effectively killing your brand. If you are to do it, use your name. It looks better, trust us!
Which lovely companies have been spamming you? If you are to do it, why not link back to the keyword phrase back to your blog? Nothing like a bit of healthy competition. So, do something like this:
Name: Rhys
Blog: Whatever
Comment: Yeah, some cock linked to me with the phrase health information and services.
What are you waiting for, get linking!
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That’s the crap Ive got in my spam queue at the moment… Those damn ones that take the title of the post and use it keep ‘getting’ me, I keep thinking they are actually valid comments.
I get tons of these comments from Courtney’s D-List myself, but I don’t give a rat’s ass about them anymore. It’s too much work to sift through the hundreds of spam comments every day, so I just delete what Akismet catches and leave the rest.
Autoblog pingbacks are much more of a nuisance than keyword stuffed comments, IMHO. My Wii Contests blog gets tons of these pingbacks every time I post a new contest and it drives me insane. I’m certainly not going to pass any Google juice to a content stealing, do nothing website or blog.
Thanks for allowing me to vent; I feel much better now.
You know, after putting in the math spam protection, my spam has dropped WAY down. But if starts hiking up again, I think I’ll start changing their links to my site. Thanks for the thought ha ha
Hehe, funny post. I haven’t had any problems like that on my blog yet, but perhaps when I get a bit more well known I’ll be fighting off the comment spam too!
Hi Rhys,
I actually requested to be on the D-list a few months back, but at the time I was using the comment luv plun-in, and not following until someone made 3 comments (not a terribly high barrier). I was turned away … because I wasn’t using the true dofollow plugin.
In hindsight, after reading your posts, it’s probably not such a bad thing that I didn’t make the list.
Think that being DoFollow can help to increase the interaction on a blog … but, there’s no doubt at all that it’s also being abused by many people who don’t know any better … and quite a few more who do (or at least should) no better.
Todd