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Gotta Love Spam Blog Comments

by bhuff85
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One of my blogs got hit hard with spam comments this morning. While going through them and deleting them all, I have to say that this one definitely gave me a good laugh:

"The genius store called...and they're running out of you"

and

"You've got to be kidding me! It's so transparently clear now!"

Haha. Wow...That is all.
#blog #comments #gotta #love #spam
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    That's why you should turn off comments.

    All comments are spam, no matter how much people say
    they leave great stuff that adds to the page.

    They don't. Every comment drags your site down.

    Why do you want people editing your page and adding
    content? Beats me. Waters down the real content.

    Use something like intensedebate if you must. Then,
    being a script, nothing is seen by search engines.

    Google keeps telling people this, but nobody listens.

    There are exceptions, but they are celebrity, news, etc.
    sites where it just does not matter, run by big sites.

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      That's why you should turn off comments.

      All comments are spam, no matter how much people say
      they leave great stuff that adds to the page.

      They don't. Every comment drags your site down.

      Why do you want people editing your page and adding
      content? Beats me. Waters down the real content.

      Use something like intensedebate if you must. Then,
      being a script, nothing is seen by search engines.

      Google keeps telling people this, but nobody listens.

      There are exceptions, but they are celebrity, news, etc.
      sites where it just does not matter, run by big sites.

      Paul
      In the end, I think comments on certain blogs are well worth it (especially personal blogs, as it allows me to connect with everyone, rather than having to go through individual e-mails to answer questions). Makes it easier for discussion.

      For my personal blog, I'm not using it to appeal to Google. In fact, I could careless how much traffic it pulls in from Google. I'd rather build that traffic through other websites and other connections online.

      For my other sites that use Wordpress, I turn off all blog comments. Always have and always will on those, but that's because they serve a different purpose.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        There is no reason to allow comments.

        This is a borderline adsense TOS as well.

        Remember, the content on your page matters.

        Why allow people to muddle the content?

        Sure, if I have a personal-throw-away-blog that I
        could care less about for rankings and adsense, maybe.

        But why?

        Leave that stuff to FB. The perfect place for personal
        stuff and comments.

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          There is no reason to allow comments.

          This is a borderline adsense TOS as well.

          Remember, the content on your page matters.

          Why allow people to muddle the content?

          Sure, if I have a personal-throw-away-blog that I
          could care less about for rankings and adsense, maybe.

          But why?

          Leave that stuff to FB. The perfect place for personal
          stuff and comments.

          Paul
          Paul - I think you may have missed what I said before. On traditional websites, I don't use comments. Those are automatically deactivated before a site even goes live.

          For my personal blog (the one in my sig), I allow comments for discussion purposes. In my opinion, it's worth it. Besides, my personal blog doesn't use Adsense (don't know where that assumption came from), so that wouldn't apply in this case.

          As I already said above, all of my other websites that use Wordpress do not have comments activated.
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        • Profile picture of the author JRCarson
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          There is no reason to allow comments.

          This is a borderline adsense TOS as well.

          Remember, the content on your page matters.

          Why allow people to muddle the content?

          Sure, if I have a personal-throw-away-blog that I
          could care less about for rankings and adsense, maybe.

          But why?

          Leave that stuff to FB. The perfect place for personal
          stuff and comments.

          Paul
          I personally think Google wants content that engages visitors, and encourages them to participate. So I keep the comments, and it works really well for my sites...but I don't use Adsense.

          Comments also makes the content more dynamic, which I think Google likes as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    Theres a funny page that lists some really good ones here: 31 Outrageous Spam Comments |

    I like this one best:

    I am happy to found your advice. This information helped me achieve rapid erection when building my site I hope to keep learning from you how to do this more.
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    • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
      Originally Posted by nicktyler View Post

      Theres a funny page that lists some really good ones here: 31 Outrageous Spam Comments |

      I like this one best:

      I am happy to found your advice. This information helped me achieve rapid erection when building my site I hope to keep learning from you how to do this more.
      Haha. That's awesome Nick! Thanks for the laugh man.

      I'm telling you - some of the one's I was going through this morning were hilarious. At least it made deleting spam a little less boring.
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