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What's the most over spammed web page you've ever seen?

by Michael D Forbes
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I came across a .edu page tonight that dates to 2006, 0 PR, plain vanilla, just another wordpress blog, hello world post with so many comments it crashed my browser before it loaded them all. I'm not going back, but I'm pretty sure I read the number as 24,700something comments.

Crazy. What's the worst you've ever run across?
#page #spammed #web
  • Profile picture of the author EffortlessEbook
    Yes, most .edu and .org blogs get a lot of spam comments. People do that because they think backlinks from .edu and .org blogs are valuable, which is wrong. They hold no value. They are just like any other backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author sumpreneur
      I saw a guy put like 500 different anchor texts into 1 Comment.

      It was pretty funny.
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Originally Posted by EffortlessEbook View Post

      Yes, most .edu and .org blogs get a lot of spam comments. People do that because they think backlinks from .edu and .org blogs are valuable, which is wrong. They hold no value. They are just like any other backlinks.
      Yes. I recently subscribed to a list that sent me some .edu blogs to subscribe to. They are all just spam farms and I don't intend adding links to my precious sites from them.

      I'm sure it won't be long before the Big G catches on and ignores links from these link farms.
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  • Profile picture of the author more control
    500 anchors is what I would call, taking it to the excess. You can check pretty much any blog with an auto do-follow comment section on and within no time at all it will be pretty much riddled with spam comments.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Originally Posted by Micheal D Forbes View Post

    I came across a .edu page tonight that dates to 2006, 0 PR, plain vanilla, just another wordpress blog, hello world post with so many comments it crashed my browser before it loaded them all. I'm not going back, but I'm pretty sure I read the number as 24,700something comments.

    Crazy. What's the worst you've ever run across?
    I must live in a good neighborhood. never saw anything above couple hundreds.

    24K... Wow.
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  • Profile picture of the author brunom
    Originally Posted by Micheal D Forbes View Post

    I came across a .edu page tonight that dates to 2006, 0 PR, plain vanilla, just another wordpress blog, hello world post with so many comments it crashed my browser before it loaded them all. I'm not going back, but I'm pretty sure I read the number as 24,700something comments.

    Crazy. What's the worst you've ever run across?
    THAT is a complete abuse. Wow.
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  • Profile picture of the author weblink29
    I wanted to learn Drupal so I created a test website www.GothChoice.com

    I finished the site but forgot to turn off comments/posting. I came back to it a few weeks later and I had thousands of pages of comments. It took FOREVER to clean it up.

    Lesson learned. I turn off comments completely on my sites.
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    Nothing to see here folks.....move along.

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    • Profile picture of the author Michael D Forbes
      Correction. I braved it and went back today... It's "only" 4,222 comments as of this morning. Funny, it sat untouched until Dec. 2010 and has been getting killed ever since.

      It just looks so hilarious. A blog with literally NO content with that many contents. Here's a link if you feel like looking at it.

      Jessica Bozeman » Blog Archive » Hello world!
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      • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
        Originally Posted by Micheal D Forbes View Post

        It just looks so hilarious. A blog with literally NO content with that many contents. Here's a link if you feel like looking at it.
        Poor Jessica.

        The day she goes there... what a surprise :p
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    • Profile picture of the author GameVoid
      Originally Posted by weblink29 View Post

      I wanted to learn Drupal so I created a test website www.GothChoice.com

      I finished the site but forgot to turn off comments/posting. I came back to it a few weeks later and I had thousands of pages of comments. It took FOREVER to clean it up.

      Lesson learned. I turn off comments completely on my sites.
      That's unfair! I can't believe you deleted all those comments that were providing valuable information to your readers! The government should do something about the monopoly you have on GothChoice comments! Those poor guys paid a lot of money for SENuke and now you just threw several microseconds of their work IN THE TRASH. How are people going to know where to buy Gucci Watches now that you have declared war on innocent Internet Marketers???????????1??
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaT
    That makes me laugh... so many comments asking how to get updates for new posts... or my favorite comment I saw...

    "Hi, sorry for enquiring this query here, but I am not ableto find a contact form or something so I felt like I leave my question here. I run a blogengine blog but I am receiving large amounts of spam. I see u use wordpress, is it unproblematic to regulate spam with wordpress or doesn’t it make any difference? I hope you will respond to my comment or maybe send me an email with your answer if you don’t want to approve the comment. Best regards, Annie"

    Also...

    "Extremely good writing. Ive added it by now."
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael D Forbes
      Originally Posted by AmandaT View Post

      That makes me laugh... so many comments asking how to get updates for new posts... or my favorite comment I saw...

      "Hi, sorry for enquiring this query here, but I am not ableto find a contact form or something so I felt like I leave my question here. I run a blogengine blog but I am receiving large amounts of spam. I see u use wordpress, is it unproblematic to regulate spam with wordpress or doesn't it make any difference? I hope you will respond to my comment or maybe send me an email with your answer if you don't want to approve the comment. Best regards, Annie"

      Also...

      "Extremely good writing. Ive added it by now."
      I liked that first one and also - "What theme are this?"

      I could probably laugh for an hour on that page at the shear silliness of the situation.
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  • Profile picture of the author weblink29
    .edu backlinks bring out the vultures
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    Nothing to see here folks.....move along.

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  • Profile picture of the author RichardF
    Oh yeah, I've seen pages with thousands of spam comments too. I sometimes use SEO Spyglass to analyze the backlinks of my competitors and it ALWAYS freezes up completely when it's analyzing a page with that many links. It's incredibly annoying.

    And yes, reading through spam comments can be a great way to brighten up your day Some of them are incredibly creative, and could probably slip through a manual approval without issues (unless the anchor text is "buy viagra" or something like that).
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxReferrals
    LOL, and the point of viewing over spammed web pages is what again...?
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  • Profile picture of the author IMWinner
    Countless my friend countless. websites are created to find their way into mail boxes and they are usually in multiples. The common ones are pharmaceutics sites selling Viagra and mails with information on how you will submit your account to help somebody in distress transfer their gold diamond etc. to your account. your compensation being 20% of the total value transferred....
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  • Profile picture of the author Palusko
    Since the main purpose of a spam on the web is to get a backlink, then technically speaking, even most article directories are overrun by spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author 1lov1
    i had a celebrity news topic site that got more spam than real traffic.....it had wp spamfree plugin and had like 12,000 pending comments in it in a month.....it was ridiculous, it was getting so bad, i had to go into phpAdmin each time to remove the spam there was so much.

    ps- celebrity traffic doesnt covert well and was just a server resource hog
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeseocool
    I have seen blog pages that stopped loading due to the immense quantity of comments. LOL!
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