It's been a while since I've gotten Viagra or Texas Hold 'Em comment spam on my blog. However, this reduction has been replaced with a deluge of spam from SEO "experts" who feel it necessary to comment on a bunch of my blog posts in a row with generic messages.
A long time ago, leaving comments on blogs had two big benefits. First, if you said something intelligent, other readers of the blog might read you comment and click on your name, which would lead them to your blog. Presto! Additional traffic.
Secondly, that link carried link juice that would increase your own blog's search engine visibility. However, those days are long gone thanks to "comment spam;" pointless or off-topic comments that spammers left at the bottom of every post they could find. In fact, they created "bots": insidious programs that would do their dirty work for them in 1/10,000 the time.
Unfortunately, a number of SEO professionals didn't get the message. A few recent comments that otherwise wouldn't make it to my blog:
I am new to seo.I am planning to start new blog.But I am getting confused to choosing blog platform.Please give me a suggestion…
Commenter name: seo company
Commenter email: hkcs.link@gmail.com
Commenter URL: http://www.not-the-actual-domain.com/SEO/index.htm
IP address: 58.68.29.162
Authentication: None
And, by the same intrepid spammer a few minutes later at another post:
Very good post.Look forward to reading more on you blog.Thanks.
Commenter name: seo services
Commenter email: hkcs.link@gmail.com
Commenter URL: http://www.not-the-actual-domain.com/SEO/index.htm
IP address: 122.167.21.138
Authentication: None
I fear for the small business owner that chooses this firm to handle their search engine optimization.
Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.


