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Can spam comments affects your website/blog?

by geto
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Hello everyone,I need to know how spam comments in your content or website can affect your site,thanks.
#affects #comments #site #spam #website or blog
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    They are content on your page. They impact your site pretty much like any other content on your page.

    For 99% of websites, there is no reason to allow comments.
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    • Profile picture of the author geto
      So what advice your recommending not to comments at all or?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by geto View Post

        So what advice your recommending not to comments at all or?
        I would not allow comments. Simple solution. There are very few sites where it makes sense to allow comments.

        And I would NEVER allow links in the comment section. Whether the links are the person's name or the comment itself.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    Originally Posted by geto View Post

    Hello everyone,I need to know how spam comments in your content or website can affect your site,thanks.
    As mentioned above, it is treated as content on your page. You should never set your blog to 'auto approve' for comments because you can safely assume that people and bots will spam your website with (mostly) useless and bot generated comments.

    It is okay to allow comments but make sure to do manual reviews of comments before posting them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hemanth Malli
      Originally Posted by alvinchua91 View Post

      As mentioned above, it is treated as content on your page. You should never set your blog to 'auto approve' for comments because you can safely assume that people and bots will spam your website with (mostly) useless and bot generated comments.

      It is okay to allow comments but make sure to do manual reviews of comments before posting them.
      Yes, I agree with your point, we never set auto approve for comments.
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  • Profile picture of the author jameskyle
    Yes it can effect the "OBL" or out bound link number.

    Some believe OBL effecta how powerful your ability to internally link on your page is.
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  • Profile picture of the author kevin timothy
    It's the nature of the beast. Why wouldn't you allow comments on your blog. True, the spam bots stay busy but you have to be busier. "Real" comments show that your blog is active. Do your best to cut down on spam comments, either manually or via an automatic spam blocker, but don't ban comments.

    In my opinion it defeats the purpose of blogging. You want activity.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrhmamun
    Spam comments always increase bounce rate sometimes it's create malicious comments that can hack your site. I use Akismet and sweet captcha to protect this.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by mrhmamun View Post

      Spam comments always increase bounce rate
      No, they do not. Spam comments are bad for your site, but why do you need to come up with stuff that just isn't true?
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      Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

      What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author kmjyoti
    Spam comments can have disastrous effects to your websites or blog and visibility of your domain in organic search.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikhailblaze
    Of course it does, though I'm more inclined to think that they're more of an annoyance.

    Most comments are spam by the way, and it will be hard to moderate them. Luckily, Wordpress plugins are there to help you filter spam.

    Anyway, I still think blog comments are a way to receive traffic, and not all comments are spam. Regardless, I'd still keep an eye out.
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  • Profile picture of the author kientrucae
    Sorry for bad English. Automation Software commented, comments unrelated to the topic, outbound links... will reduce the quality of your site. If I had read that comment spam, I'll get out soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author jessikaload
    Yes. Spam comments always effects to your website. If you use wordpress site Askimet is good solution.
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  • Profile picture of the author SureshHiten
    Yes, spam comment affect the website or blog very badly then it doesn't matter how well you optimized the site. This is the major reason to audit the site before to start optimized the site, if you found the duplicate content in your site though it is better to change the site content. Actually duplicate content affect the visibility of the site ranking in SERP.
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