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Seperating Wheat From Goats.

by ed22
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Here it goes - I get hundreds of blog comments each day and being, shall we say, a little cynical, tend to assume most are spam links.

But I'd like to encourage my dear readers to contribute.

How do you seperate the wheat from the goats to horrendously mix a metaphor?
#goats #seperating #wheat
  • Profile picture of the author Sarah Harvey
    If you have wordpress you can get creative so to speak. Turn all the spam comments into conspiring or positive comments about your blog.

    Well that is one way to look at it. Otherwise, you have to do what the rest of us do. Install a captcha code and humans (more often than not) will end up posting on your blog. I sort of did that with my one blog because I was sick of the spam comments.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wayne-JJ
    There are basically three types of posters:

    1) Spammer
    2) Trying to contribute
    3) Contribute + Hoping to get a backlink

    Its quite easy to spot no. 1, but 2 and 3 is a bit hard to differentiate. As long as we see them trying to contribute something (although sometimes trying too hard) and not spamming then I guess it's a win win for both
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  • Profile picture of the author Greg Stack
    The spam I receive to my WordPress blog are obvious. Most sound as if they went through two cycles of an English as a second language article spinner.

    I have nearly 1,000 "unmoderated" posts now that I just haven't processed yet, all spam. What I have recently decided to do is to add them all to an email list and see if I will have any luck. You never know, although I suspect that many of the emails are bogus. But, if not, I have a free list to try to convert.
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    • Profile picture of the author Janice Sperry
      Originally Posted by SwiftKickMedia View Post

      The spam I receive to my WordPress blog are obvious. Most sound as if they went through two cycles of an English as a second language article spinner.

      I have nearly 1,000 "unmoderated" posts now that I just haven't processed yet, all spam. What I have recently decided to do is to add them all to an email list and see if I will have any luck. You never know, although I suspect that many of the emails are bogus. But, if not, I have a free list to try to convert.
      That is an interesting idea. I would worry about spam complaints but since they essentially contacted you first maybe that is not an issue? I would have tons of prospects every week if I tried that. I guess you could start off with a little humor - "Are you a human? If so you might be interested...." Keep us posted.
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    • Profile picture of the author ameerulislam10
      Originally Posted by SwiftKickMedia View Post

      The spam I receive to my WordPress blog are obvious. Most sound as if they went through two cycles of an English as a second language article spinner.

      I have nearly 1,000 "unmoderated" posts now that I just haven't processed yet, all spam. What I have recently decided to do is to add them all to an email list and see if I will have any luck. You never know, although I suspect that many of the emails are bogus. But, if not, I have a free list to try to convert.
      If you communicate with that free list, then now you are going to be accused of spamming.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Seek original thoughts in a comment, and you will not go wrong.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      Seek original thoughts in a comment, and you will not go wrong.
      That's the way I do it. "Great post." etc doesn't cut it. The links they post are pretty much a give away, too. Nobody is on my site to look at Ipod ads or IM crap - they want rocks n related.
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  • Profile picture of the author JeedoAquino
    If the comment sounds wrong, trash it right away. If you come to a point where you waste your hours moderating comments on your blog. You might want to hire a virtual assistant to moderate for you, assuming that VA is capable that is ^_^
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