A few days ago I got this comment on our cheap flights post … » Continue reading “How NOT to Comment Spam a Blog”

What is your personal comment moderation policy on your blog or website? Do you trim the comments to the most relevant or do you allow anything to be posted (even short comment spam)? I guess most people have their own personal rules when it comes to figuring out what to let through and what to delete or mark as spam.

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This morning I got a new kind of comment I had not seen before:

hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments, I can help you with this problem . » Continue reading “Hot New Spam Tactic: Link Extortion”

I’ve been seeing a lot of short spam comments bypass Akismet’s spam filters on this blog lately. This type of blog spam is a rather clever way to deceive the less-astute bloggers who don’t realize that it’s spam and approve the comment because it’s perceived as marginally relevant, only because it’s so general and vague.

» Continue reading “Short Comment Spam in Akismet”

Last week Matt Cutts talked about hidden links and illustrated a case of what was a pretty blatant attempt to hide links within text.

This morning I surfed over to MichaelSaunders.com (a brokerage here in Sarasota) and saw that their footer area is full of keyword-laden text. If you mouse-over the paragraphs you will see that a large number of the keywords in text are actually links to different parts of the Michael Saunders website. The text links are made to blend in completely with the rest of the paragraph. It appears that the links are there solely for search engines and not users of the site.

» Continue reading “Is MichaelSaunders.com Violating the Google Guidelines?”