Dumb Blog Comment or Clever Ad

Colin Evans · 01-09-2009, 08:20 PM

I got this comment on one of my blogs:

Quote:

Attention All Site Owners: The following website openly promotes unfair tactics to gain high ranking in search engines! [The url was here] Their members use dark art scripts free of charge. Those people are ruining the web! AVOID them at all costs!

I'm not sure whether it was a dumb comment or a clever ad - the url was not a link, and there was no link entered for the comment.

It was caught by Akismet, so I'm inclined to think it was an ad...

What do you think?

Johnathan · 01-09-2009, 08:26 PM

defintely an ad. I get annoying word press spam that is any variation of the following:

"Hi, gosh darn it golly gee! You have a great site, i visited it from _urlhere_"

or (some were even too lazy to replace the automated code)
"Hi! I read your %TOPIC% on %WEBSITE_URL%, and think it was a great post." and in the username it is their username/keyword stuffing/url.

etc, etc.

MikeWords · 01-09-2009, 08:57 PM

Reverse psychology in effect. Nice...

Adam Bshero · 01-09-2009, 08:59 PM

Clever ad... I might have to use it! *sarcasm*

Tom Dean · 01-09-2009, 09:03 PM

Sounds like a clever ad. I imagine people would be curious to see the dark art scripts free of charge

I had a strange one recently.

The posters name was the keyword Acai Berry which was not so unusual considering my blog. The url was some sort of acaiberrysomething.com address.

The strange part is that the url redirected to the Sham Wow website shamwow.com/ with that guy from the Sham Wow Infomercials I keep seeing on T.V.

That dude is everywhere lol

Jessica Lynn · 01-09-2009, 10:12 PM

At first glance it looks like a dumb comment by an overly enthusiastic "ethics cop", which probably means it works well on readers - making it a clever ad (albeit an annoying one)!

Colin Evans · 01-09-2009, 10:18 PM

I guess it was a clever ad, but it it got me curious because I've been accused of polluting the web with my premade websites and seen enough "you are ruining the web" comments to make me want to stop selling them and go into flipping instead.

Tom, I also got that Acai Berry comment - It wasn't a bad comment as spam goes, but it was way off topic and I left Akismet to blitz it .

BubbasBits · 01-09-2009, 11:16 PM

Definitely an ad

James S · 01-10-2009, 03:40 PM

Thats rather clever.. using reverse psychology to get the reader intrigued and makes them want to click.. thats an ad in my opinion!

joannabenz · 01-10-2009, 04:15 PM

I wasn't sure at first, either! LOL

01-09-2009, 08:26 PM	#2
Johnathan Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 822 Thanks: 257 Thanked 74 Times in 64 Posts	Re: Dumb Blog Comment or Clever Ad - What do you think? defintely an ad. I get annoying word press spam that is any variation of the following: "Hi, gosh darn it golly gee! You have a great site, i visited it from _urlhere_" or (some were even too lazy to replace the automated code) "Hi! I read your %TOPIC% on %WEBSITE_URL%, and think it was a great post." and in the username it is their username/keyword stuffing/url. etc, etc.

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MikeWords HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida Posts: 112 Thanks: 1 Thanked 19 Times in 18 Posts Social Networking	Re: Dumb Blog Comment or Clever Ad - What do you think? Reverse psychology in effect. Nice...

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James S Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Dumb Blog Comment or Clever Ad - What do you think? Thats rather clever.. using reverse psychology to get the reader intrigued and makes them want to click.. thats an ad in my opinion!

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