Comments on: Eliminating spam is good SEO

By: Rhys

Rhys — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:08:17 +0000

I often do a G search for the comment text for doubtful comments, surprising how often I find that they have repeated the comment elswhere – sometimes many times.

If it only show on my own blog I can let it through.

Rhys

By: yarismak

yarismak — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:50:28 +0000

In my view, the main damage comment spam does is reducing the value and interest of a discussion for *human visitors*. (Which, of course, translates into SEO damage, since the best SEO is optimization for humans.)

By: Elmo

Elmo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:10:21 +0000

I totally agree. I just launched a blog and get user leaving comments that have nothing to do with that blog. They then tend to leave multiple links on the post. It really is annoying…

By: Stuff, Stamps, and Spam « Surface Reflections

Stuff, Stamps, and Spam « Surface Reflections — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:21:36 +0000

[...] Speaking of junk, there has been a lot of spam collecting in the Akismet spam queue in all three of my blogs. On one blog, one day there were 23 spam comments. Spam has been getting sneaky, though, bypassing the Akismet net. Someone will post, “Really like your blog.” or “Keep posting.” or “Thanks.” The URL to these comments looks fishy and I don’t click on the URLs either because of nasty viruses lurking out in cyberworld. The other day I had a comment for a post that just said “Thanks!” Thanks for what??? Since I was unsure of the comment along with the reasoning as well as I didn’t know the commenter and the URL looked fishy, it seemed to fit the spam profile, I deleted it. I have the link to the Akisment blog on the sidebar under Websites of Interest. Are you damaging the reputation of your blog with harmful spam links from a ‘thankful’ commenter? There is an excellent article about spam that will give you something to think about concerning spam comments called: Eliminating Spam is Good SEO. [...]

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Thu, 07 May 2009 23:03:25 +0000

[...] Spam = SEO Winner: In “Eliminating spam is good SEO,” the folks from Akismet talk about how cleaning out your comment spam can tremendously boost [...]

By: Christopher Hennis

Christopher Hennis — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:12:58 +0000

I have a rule of thumb. If the commenter left a URL, I’m unsure if the comment is spam or not, and the site at the URL is commercial, I delete it.

By: GFMorris.com » links for 2009-05-02

GFMorris.com » links for 2009-05-02 — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:30:43 +0000

[...] Eliminating spam is good SEO « Akismet "Anyway, a comment is a comment, right, so what’s the harm in approving a few tame platitudes, even if they were posted by spammers?" (tags: comment_spam) [...]

By: The annoyance of spammers and over sensitive bloggers… « Paul Zannucci Blog

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:02:45 +0000

[...] The problem is that some people are becoming ridiculous about what sort of comments they let through their site thanks to articles like this: http://blog.akismet.com/2009/04/28/eliminating-spam-is-good-seo/ [...]

By: AndrewGene

AndrewGene — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:45:01 +0000

Nice blog. Can I have your theme? ….

….j/k. Great article. Coming from someone who is about to launch their own blog (independent of wordpress or any other engine) do you have any advice on techniques to keep these spammers away?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:14:51 +0000

I emphatically agree here, especially with the fact that if spammy links end up on your page *anywhere*, even in name url’s, once the Goog and others follow those links to their spam destination it’s going to dock a point on your own site for linking to theirs. They don’t, and probably shouldn’t consider it’s a comment because every webmaster/blog owner has the ability to moderate their comments.