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Dumb Blog Comment or Clever Ad - What do you think?

by Colin Evans
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I got this comment on one of my blogs:

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?
#blog #clever #comment #dumb
  • Profile picture of the author Johnathan
    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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    • Profile picture of the author MikeWords
      Reverse psychology in effect. Nice...
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  • Profile picture of the author ADAMw3
    Clever ad... I might have to use it! *sarcasm*
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Dean
    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 **** 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
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  • Profile picture of the author Jessica Lynn
    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)!
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Evans
    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 **** Berry comment - It wasn't a bad comment as spam goes, but it was way off topic and I left Akismet to blitz it .
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  • Profile picture of the author BubbasBits
    Definitely an ad
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  • Profile picture of the author James S
    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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  • Profile picture of the author joannabenz
    I wasn't sure at first, either! LOL
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