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Whats the point of spamming?

by andybeveridge
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I'll tell you what does annoy me, and something that I don't really understand. What do spammers get out of leaving comments on your blog? Its not like your going to allow them to be published is it?
I get bombarded by links to viagra sites, I suppose if I ever need the stuff, I will know where to go.

Andy Beveridge
#point #spamming
  • Profile picture of the author Jason_V
    I know, it's such a shame too. I was doing a lot of blog commenting yesterday (well thought out, intelligent comments about the posts not spam) and every single one of them except one I had to wait for the comment to be moderated. Why I say this is a shame is because if people hadn't started spamming you could have been rewarded with a backlink by instant acceptance of comments.

    I know my comments will most likely get approved. However, it's too bad that it had to come to moderated blog comments.
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  • Profile picture of the author bradleynsmith
    I'm with you on that one Andy.

    If anyone else is interested, I've written (yes, by my own hand, not a rehashed PLR ebook!) a book for IM'ers about SPAM, how NOT to be taken as a spammer.

    It's available for free here (signup required):
    The SPAM Blockers - Stop SPAM Now ! - SPAM Blockers

    Oh, I think you're talking more about "forum spam" or "blog spam" right ?
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  • Profile picture of the author andybeveridge
    I'm really talking about spam on your blogs. I just don't understand what the spammers get out of it.
    I mean it must be really rare for a moderator to actually click on a spammed link. So where is the incentive for the spammer?

    Andy Beveridge
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    • Profile picture of the author Jason_V
      Originally Posted by andybeveridge View Post

      I'm really talking about spam on your blogs. I just don't understand what the spammers get out of it.
      I mean it must be really rare for a moderator to actually click on a spammed link. So where is the incentive for the spammer?

      Andy Beveridge

      Andy, the only thing I can think of is they are just mass commenting and hoping one comment will stick. Like I said, I spent almost all day blog commenting yesterday. I actually had one blog where the comment went live immediately. These spammers are just trying to find a list of blogs that allow comments to go live instantly and will make a list and just spam away to their list of blogs that have instant comment acceptance.
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      • Profile picture of the author andybeveridge
        Yes, I guess its just a numbers thing.
        You can drop by one of my blogs and leave a comment. I could do with a bit more comment action.
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      Almost all spamming you see is completely automated. The spammer has never been to your site and probably never will be. They just give a program their keywords and maybe a few other parameters and click a button and go play HALO. If they only get 500 followed links out of trying to spam 100,000 blogs, so what, mission accomplished so far as they're concerned.

      Some people may leave meaningful, manually typed, comments but use an anchored link instead of a name, for example 'Cheap Hair Curlers' instead of 'Joe Blow'. If you don't want people to do this on your blog or don't mind if they do, state this up front in your policies page and perhaps in a little text near your comment area.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amenda Jessera
    Yes, By leaving comments on blogs, spammers are sucking SEO juice, However, that is known as blackhat SEO, they can stable there for just 2-3 days or weeks after that there are high possibility to get de-index by google, Most of the spammers do NOT aware of it.

    I too had a blog where I gave people to get DOFOLLOW link via commenting, but I hve got huge spammers. So, I just disable comments on my blogs due to these spammers.

    By these spammers, My blog too had lost the PR and had lost rating on google too, but now I am back with some hard work, So, Spammers are giving trouble to us at the same time they too into trouble....
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  • Profile picture of the author MustafaKamal
    In the internet world, spammers are bound to exist. Just have to make do with whatever to either prevent them as best as we can. Then again, they'll definitely outsmart us one way or another.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Sussman
    I get a lot of the automated spam on one of my test blogs. Such as " Your work is so inspirational" "This is great, I will bookmark to read later on" The only thing is there is absolutely nothing on this blog except a standard wp header.
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  • Profile picture of the author andybeveridge
    Hey Adam, perhaps they just know your work is going to be good.
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