Comments on: The Cost of Comment Spam

By: Bumeral

Bumeral — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:54:37 +0000

It is very easy to find comment with reason and spam.I hate comments with just one sentence for example : It is good.Ok….Comment must have some point, reason, final couse.

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By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:40:14 +0000

Without the use of plugins or some sort of captcha your blog will be overrun in no time :/

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By: The Retrospector » On Dealing With Comment Spam

The Retrospector » On Dealing With Comment Spam — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:14:43 +0000

[...] All is not lost. I know there’s millions of bloggers out there dealing with this. I may as well suck it up and deal with it too. Problogger.net has a few posts about why spam comment is dangerous and how it costs blogs in many different ways. [...]

By: Bright Meadow » Sunday Roast: death by Jello is very unlikely

Bright Meadow » Sunday Roast: death by Jello is very unlikely — Sun, 21 May 2006 11:55:43 +0000

[...] A while back Darren talked about the cost of comment spam and mentioned that certain high profile blogs were just letting it through. I couldn’t believe that anyone would do that, till I stumbled across one such blog in the course of chasing down links this week. I was going to name and shame, but then I remembered that I’m meant to be nice, so I won’t. I will say, however, that it’s reaffirmed in my mind my distaste for this blogger and made his/her reputation even lower in my eyes. There is no excuse given the great tools available. Then again, I now know where to go if I ever want a dodgy GSM phone… [...]

By: Fight and Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam with Akismet » My Digital Life

Fri, 19 May 2006 12:35:09 +0000

[...] Comment, trackback and pingback are all unique features of a blog. However, trackback spam, pingback spam and especially comment spam are seriously threatening these features of the weblog with increasingly overwhelming amount of spam. However, stopping spam from appearing on your blog is easy with several plug-ins and tools such as Akismet. What will happen if comments spam is left unchecked and undeleted? ProBlogger discussed about The Cost of Comment Spam which include any comment spam found on your blog might invite more spam, reputation of the blog with too much spam, dead links that may caused by spam as almost all comments and trackback spam will link back to their sites, and also the cost of spam that may affect search engine ranking and optimization. [...]

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 15 May 2006 04:15:53 +0000

not any more :-)

By: Jeremie

Jeremie — Mon, 15 May 2006 02:12:00 +0000

Ha ^^^ A spam comment in an article about comment SPAM. hahaha

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:44:31 +0000

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By: Jeremie

Jeremie — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:24:45 +0000

I installed Akismet just recently because I simply do not have the man-power at my disposal to manually delete the amount of spam I am getting.

In the short time I have had Akismet, it has caught over 1700 spam comments.

By: Best Advice for Combating Comment Spam - the Starving Marketer’s Blog

Best Advice for Combating Comment Spam - the Starving Marketer’s Blog — Sun, 07 May 2006 11:52:54 +0000

[...] There’s a ton of advice out there for dealing with comment spam, but when it comes right down to it, the best advice is pretty simple. Darren has an outstanding post on spam this morning that talks about the cost of ignoring trash on your blogs. In it, he says this: My main piece of advice for bloggers is to use up to date blogging software and to use the built in spamming solutions that many of them have built in or available with plugins. [...]

By: L

Fri, 05 May 2006 04:23:08 +0000

I have a related question: Why do we call them, “comment sections”? They don’t have their own section at all!

(I’m really commenting again, because I forgot to check off to receive replies in my e-mail. :-))

By: L

Fri, 05 May 2006 04:18:50 +0000

EXCELLENT post. And do you find that Spam Karma (I think I was referred by you) lets some slip through? It’s mostly on my new posts (they have this age setting), and I catch it quickly. Most things either get tossed, a few get posted, and I rarely get moderate e-mails. Hmm. Well, it works, mostly. But I also find it odd that I NEVER get moderate e-mails. I mean all sorts of new commenters’ comments go live immediately, and I’m happy for my new visitors, but it’s a worry. I do have the setting in Word Press itself for that to be moderated. I just let that go with the whole benefit of the plugin. It’s pretty good, and it does a better job, with less moderation (and less me reading about *drug product* and *type of gambling game* [don't want to get caught by spam 0:-)]). Of course, I still read everything in order to reply!

By: se7en

se7en — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:50:29 +0000

Doh! Sorry about the double trackbacks on this post, it wasn’t intentional!

Great article! Thanks!

By: Blog Flak - Blog Resources » Blog Archive » Comment Spam Got You Down?

Blog Flak - Blog Resources » Blog Archive » Comment Spam Got You Down? — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:20:32 +0000

[...] Problogger has an excellent article up titled “The Cost of Comment Spam” that is a must read for anyone who’s blog is deluged with the scourge of comment spammers. We all know what a pain in the arse it is to deal with but giving up and giving in is not the answer, even if you’re feeling overwhelmed and tired of dealing with it. Taking an aggressive stance to delete, remove and prevent spamming on your blog is highly advisable to keep spammers from destroying your hard work, reputation and your search engine positioning. [...]

By: Blog Flak - Blog Resources » Blog Archive » Comment Spam Got You Down?

Blog Flak - Blog Resources » Blog Archive » Comment Spam Got You Down? — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:15:22 +0000

[...] Comment Spam Got You Down? Problogger has an excellent article up titled “The Cost of Comment Spam” that is a must read for anyone who’s blog is deluged with the scourge of comment spammers. We all know what a pain in the arse it is to deal with but giving up and giving in is not the answer, even if you’re feeling overwhelmed and tired of dealing with it. Taking an aggressive stance to delete, remove and prevent spamming on your blog is highly advisable to keep spammers from destroying your hard work, reputation and your search engine positioning. Did you know that it’s possible for spammers to fill your database up with spam on future posts? WordPress seems to be particularly vulnerable to this type of attack and the first sign is that spam comments show up immediately everytime you put up a new post. The reason why this is possible is because of the way posts are numbered and they can load your database up with comments on posts that you have yet to write, invisible until you login to your MySql database on your server and delete them. There’s some great stuff at WordPress on “Combating Comment Spam” that you should read up on to help you get a handle on this nasty problem. Technorati Tags : spam, blogs, blogging, comments, seo, search, engines, wordpress TAG IT | DIG IT | SEARCH IT | ADD IT | BLINK IT [...]

By: CT Biz Blogs » Blog Archive » Tricks for detecting comment spam

CT Biz Blogs » Blog Archive » Tricks for detecting comment spam — Wed, 03 May 2006 13:42:52 +0000

[...] The cost of comment spam [...]