Comments on: Top five comment spammer tricks

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:32:33 +0000

It’s nice to see the top five of spammethods. And I did nearly encounter everyone too. Like Tonys sister I also have a guestbook, which was spammed so much it increased with each day. As I don’t allow registration on my site I closed it. Currently I try to create one with Akismet implementation.

By: John K

John K — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:57:00 +0000

I love the “readable white” skin. It makes me smile every time I read that…

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:52:14 +0000

I’d add a 6th; offering a backhanded compliment to stir you up. “Hi, nice blog, but rely less on scripts and try to add a little content, ok?” Or “Its the second time I visited your web site. Looks interesting. However, Id recommend you thought of a new design. ” Click on their name and they’re pushing some weight loss drug or low cost mortgage.

By: Shaun Shull

Shaun Shull — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:11:13 +0000

Spam comments for the most part appear to be a method for black-hat SEO. It would be nice to start seeing the common blog applications apply the rel=”no-follow” attribute to all comment links therefor making the Google juice value of blog comment links null.

By: Titanas

Titanas — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:05:27 +0000

Thank god all that applies to the English language. It makes it so easy for me (i’m greek) to click on the Spam button

By: CountZero

CountZero — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:40:38 +0000

thank you very much for outlining your top 5 spammer methods. Especially that rant about that social bookmarking site reminded me of some comment i got on a post of mine referring to openbc. That comment followed the same pattern as for the bookmarking site you mentioned – nothing to do with the topic, and the “backlink” pointed to another “social community” site concurrent to openbc.
As for your last statement whether that top# pattern will work out good – as far as my own experiences go, it will do – I posted a list of my wp plugin recommendations a few days ago and traffic goes *boom* since then well, not particularly, but at least this post gathers more attraction than many others of mine

Hopefully spamkarma will find some patterns to get rid of the manual spam patterns you’ve written about some day – especially this manual comment spam is very distracting.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:49:33 +0000

Greg, this site ([ahref=http://tinyurl.com/c6raw]) is totally copying your content.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:07:22 +0000

I’m convinced that some comment spammers are really just email spammers trying to get around email spam filters. They submit an obviously spammy comment (or even a trickish one like you’ve outlined), knowing that it will never see the light of day, but that they will get the eyes of the site owner in the moderation queue. My sister runs a site that has a moderated guestbook, and she had to close it to non-registered users becuase she was getting 20 spam entries a day, despite the fact that not one was ever published.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:59:14 +0000

Hi Greg, I think you are totally right!