I've been getting good spam lately

by jxam69
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Over the last few weeks some of my sites have been getting high quality spam comments.

People come in, and manually post thoughtful and valuable comments, and add a spammy link.

I simply remove their spammy link, and publish the comments.

I get quality content, and the spammers get nothing.

Keep it up whoever you are!
#good #spam
  • Profile picture of the author terryd
    Yep I pretty much do the same thing if the quality is good , I'll even leave the link if it's a related niche and it was a genuine comment.
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  • Profile picture of the author hipeopo02
    If I don't have anything in front of me to do/taking a break from my work I go ahead and turn it into a thoughtful and valuable comment if it isn't one already. So at the very least thanks for the unique IP visit spammers!
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Good for you, I always receive comments like: "hey great post, thank you so much for sharing"
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  • Profile picture of the author trade4861
    Or maybe the same post are on thousands of other pages across the Internet. Maybe the content just devalues your page.
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    • Profile picture of the author jxam69
      Originally Posted by trade4861 View Post

      Or maybe the same post are on thousands of other pages across the Internet. Maybe the content just devalues your page.
      No, the ones I'm referring to are ones that directly, and thoughtfully, address what's being said in the article they're commenting on.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by jxam69 View Post

        No, the ones I'm referring to are ones that directly, and thoughtfully, address what's being said in the article they're commenting on.
        You are aware of technologies where they scrape and perhaps spin a part of what you wrote and place a few sentences around that right?

        It's a very common technique that is used by many Xrumer spammers. Looks legit at first glance but in fact just pure spam. You can easy find out by putting the non relevant part in quotes and do a search in Google. I bet you'll be surprised.
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        • Profile picture of the author jxam69
          Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

          You are aware of technologies where they scrape and perhaps spin a part of what you wrote and place a few sentences around that right?

          It's a very common technique that is used by many Xrumer spammers. Looks legit at first glance but in fact just pure spam. You can easy find out by putting the non relevant part in quotes and do a search in Google. I bet you'll be surprised.
          Read my comment again - i said "thoughtfully" - in fact I've used two variations of the word in this thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author cpoalmighty
    There is always askimet if you are fed up of the spam. Works pretty well with other spam preventative measures as well
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  • Profile picture of the author jbearnolimits
    Ok let me get this right...real people are reading what you write and they are leaving thoughtful comments that you ask for right? How is that spam?
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    • Profile picture of the author jxam69
      Originally Posted by jbearnolimits View Post

      Ok let me get this right...real people are reading what you write and they are leaving thoughtful comments that you ask for right? How is that spam?
      If you read my OP carefully, you would have noticed that I said they include spammy links - that's why it's spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author godoveryou
    Good thing I'm hacking your site to get the link that you're denying others.

    How funny is it now

    (Of course I'm not really hacking your site... Maybe?)
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    • Profile picture of the author jxam69
      Originally Posted by godoveryou View Post

      Good thing I'm hacking your site to get the link that you're denying others.

      How funny is it now

      (Of course I'm not really hacking your site... Maybe?)
      I quite literally have no idea what you're trying to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author godoveryou
    That's fine, perhaps even better.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    Of course, we should take benefit of this as well, but you have to give time in checking all the comments..

    Akismet would also help a lot here.
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  • Profile picture of the author msharmjia
    Maybe this is the only thing you can do as of now. Because there are no other alternative you have for these spam comments.
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