Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

robwatts — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:57:58 +0000

Hello John

I removed your link because it made me laugh, why not offer something intelligent instead of dropping a link to something you clearly seek to promote? Do I look stupid?

Hello
I am new to blogs, & still keen to learn lot. How these anchor text turns can to spams….

Yes you link to a site that advocates social media marketing…right, got that.

Promoting with this method helps increase the rating, which inturn increase the traffic, & according to me there is no harm promoting something by this means….

There is certainly harm if you disrespect what has been said and just drop your crappy link anyway.

Fool.

Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

John — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:50:40 +0000

Hello

I am new to blogs, & still keen to learn lot. How these anchor text turns can to spams…. Promoting with this method helps increase the rating, which inturn increase the traffic, & according to me there is no harm promoting something by this means….
John
Self promo link removed by site owner

Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

robwatts — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Hi Neil, yes fine no problem at all with that.

I had someone recently who left 4 okish comments yet spoiled it all by trying different weird variants of his name with links to his obvious network of blogs, that or ones he was trying to get backlinks for…shame really, cos most of what he said was pretty ok.

You’d have though that he might just of realised that I would have seen a correlation between the writing styles and the IP addresses..oh well

Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

Acopic Web Design — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:51:32 +0000

mmmm. It’s a tricky one. I always use ‘Acopic Web Design’ as my name for all posts across the 40 or 50 blogs to which I’m subscribed and on which I regularly comment. Yes it obviously helps with SEO but to be honest most of them are nofollow so it’s not the main reason I use it. I could use my real name but I think ‘Acopic…..’ (didn’t want to take the piss and repeat it yet again!!) informs people of who I am and what I do better than just John Smith or whatever. Obviously you’ve got to make a decision based on multiple factors like the comment itself though.

I liked Davids suggestion above that you could create a plugin that only switches to dofollow after so many posts (maybefollow?).

Anyway – I hope the name is OK for you, lol?

Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

robwatts — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:59:08 +0000

Hi MD,

Well I did toy with some of the ideas you suggest. Top commenters for example on this blog, rewards top commenters with a non nofollow link on the home page and nofollows them on internals.

The blog isnt so busy at the moment (im a little lazy0 but if it picks up again then i may well revisit some of what you suggest.

Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

Mutiny Design — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:43:31 +0000

Or alternativly, you only remove nofollow on your top x commenters. Something like that would ward away most link hounds.

Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

Mutiny Design — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:42:19 +0000

Maybe you could try implmenting a system where people have to make x comments before you remove nofollow on their links. Although I often find people use spammy link text on nofollow blogs.

I don’t agree that blog link comments are of low value. I know one blogger who has a PR7 with less than 3,000 link about 10% are from actual blog posts, about 60% from blog comments and the rest is miscelanous sites and spammy looking directories.

Spotting comment spammers and link droppers

OOM — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:12:36 +0000

The best way to avoid spam comments is the old one. Moderated comments. This is good for small to medium traffic blogs, not big ones. Isn’t there a way to spam the spammers? Get their links/emails then direct all the spam you get to those links/emails… Would this work? Probably not.