Spam Comments

I’ve been getting dozens of comments per day of the “I’m glad I found your blog, it’s one of the best” variety.  In other words, totally generic. A way to get the email address and webpage of the sender published on my pages (they wish!).

I have great anti-spam widgets which put all these sorts of comments into a separate folder, but I still have to go through it all.  Yesterday I had to review over 150.  A bother. And you just know there’s a software writer out there who made it possible for attention seekers to send bland, generic comments to thousands of blogs with a keystroke. On my site, these spam comments have been accelerating. The search engines are partially to blame. They measure your web presence and assign your importance in search results based on how many times your website is mentioned on the web, even in the comments section of other people’s blogs.

Besides being a bother for blog owners, these spam comments sometimes mask less-than-specific comments sent by real people. So you may have sent something to me and you may not have a website called “f0rtuneteller0nline.not” (slightly altered to thwart their efforts). But your comment may be like his/hers:

Hello there, You’ve done an excellent job. I will definitely digg it and personally suggest to my friends. I’m confident they’ll be benefited from this web site. Regards,

So if you want to get through, please mention something that’s actually on my site.  I apologize to those real people whose encouraging comments didn’t appear. As for my “web strategy” I am not into all the new stuff. I would never send spam comments, tweets or even facebook entries. I’m a dinosaur. I hate iphones. Big flat screen TVs are OK though.

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