We have reached a new low, or have we?
On my other blog, I am getting spam comments a lot, probably because of the content, I talk about shopping and post links to lots of online shopping opportunities.
Most of the comments are obviously crap, and most don’t get through the spam filter. However, this is a little something different.
Yay for me! Wow, someone thinks that search engines should find my post about buying a Bonsai tree and make it the top search result for related searches!
Oh, wait.
So, maybe not so much.
Chris Brogan talked about a similar situation, but his spammer left a comment relevant to the post. What is better? Since I don’t have nearly as many readers as Chris, maybe this person felt like flattery was the way to go, in terms of “what can I do to get through the filter and then NOT get manually flagged as spam?”
Too bad for you, “study abroad scholarships,” I think enough of my content that I will not be keeping your spammery around.
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I never understood spam comments. The link is nofollow by default in WordPress, they’re not going to get any traffic from people who read your blog (unless there’s some bizarre scholarship crossover going on) and it’s not as if you’re going to be so smitten with the commenter that you’re going to begin visiting his or her site.
So where’s the win? Someone paid a ton of money to some 4th tier SEO firm that promised some outlandish result. Pity the poor client, I suppose.
Here is a real comment.
I agree with Jay. The only rational explanation for those “comments” appears to be that some “seo expert” company has sold someone on the idea that they can build backlinks for them and then presumably tells them how many comments they have made. Caveat emptor.
My experience is that if the comments look odd, or only tangentially related to the topic of the blog post, they typically link to either an almost empty page or scholarships/pharmaceuticals/get-rich-quick type pages.