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WP Spam?

by lutherlars
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Hey guys:
If you leave spammy comments in your pending Q, will they still get crawled by Google? God I hope not, lol as i have thousands.
#spam
  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Short answer, no.
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    • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
      Originally Posted by lutherlars View Post

      Hey guys:
      If you leave spammy comments in your pending Q, will they still get crawled by Google? God I hope not, lol as i have thousands.
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Short answer, no.
      Longer answer: wrong approach. Do not worry about G... worry about your database (and of the moment when they will say you are using too much of the shared hosting resources).

      Why would anybody keep thousands of dead data records (comments) in the blog's database just to slow it down? Decent anti-spam plugins delete spam older than X days. But you need to find a way to make them not "pending" but clearly flagged as spam. Then get rid of them: clean up your blog, your database.
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        Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

        Longer answer: wrong approach. Do not worry about G... worry about your database (and of the moment when they will say you are using too much of the shared hosting resources).

        Why would anybody keep thousands of dead data records (comments) in the blog's database just to slow it down? Decent anti-spam plugins delete spam older than X days. But you need to find a way to make them not "pending" but clearly flagged as spam. Then get rid of them: clean up your blog, your database.
        I absolutely agree. Unseen comments won't get indexed. But they could slow down your site as Istvan Horvath.

        If the comments are worthless and spammy, just delete them and focus on more important things like SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Willie Murray
    Originally Posted by lutherlars View Post

    Hey guys:
    If you leave spammy comments in your pending Q, will they still get crawled by Google? God I hope not, lol as i have thousands.
    I could be wrong, but until they are approved they're not published and therefore should not be picked up by google.

    Do you use anything now in WP to counteract the spam?
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  • Profile picture of the author luvtrees
    No. Also, install Akismet and you won't have thousands of pending spam comments anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tmill
    I hate the pending spam comments. Akismet would cost you and I wouldn't pay for it just for some niche sites. I plan on getting it for my authority blog site though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    But they could slow down your site as Istvan Horvath.
    I don't slow down anybody's site
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      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      I don't slow down anybody's site
      Oh darn. I meant to say:

      Unseen comments won't get indexed. But they could slow down your site as Istvan Horvath mentioned.

      My apologies for a stupid typo. Thanks for having a good sense of humor about it, lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Lim
    Nope, but they stuffs your e-mail box.

    I'm wondering why couldn't those tools spam my blog with a dash in my url.
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe R Piercey
      I really hope not. theres nothing I hate more than even seeing them in my inbox - they make me cringe, it's so obvious that theyve never been to your site
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