subject: My Website Is Getting Spam Comments [print this page] My Website Is Getting Spam Comments My Website Is Getting Spam Comments
Within the last few weeks I've realized that my website is getting plenty of spam. Not just a few spam comments in some places but a lot of the damn stuff. The fact is reported by Google Analytics the website appears to acquire more spam comments than actual site visitors. I still have not got around to activating my Askimet configurations yet to prevent the spam remarks. Now having looked around a handful of black hat forums I noticed that this system is fairly popular. I figured I'd perform a little test!
So out comes my copy of Scrapebox and I harvested some Wordpress blogs. Scrapebox by the way can be great for finding blogs related to your niche if used in a white hat manner, which will be covered once i start to put up some tools for Search engine optimization Reviews. Anyway I thought I'd try a little experiment just to find out if spamming works or not. To be honest anyone with blog with any real traffic would always decline them anyway. However some people don't know how to use Wordpress blogs effectively too, me included.
After harvesting some (very few) I let Scrapebox rip and off it went auto commenting on blogs (sorry incidentally if you were one of these). Within an hour I got an email from one of the people which i had spammed and he informed me that 90% of those who left comments gave an incorrect email. That's because they don't want you to email them back and make a complaint! I did check to see how many of these links did actually get okayed but it was very few indeed.
The truth is if you have a spam comment approved then it is gonna be by a website that generates little or no interest and would definitely have very little or no page ranking. If the link did get approval then the it's likely that the page has or will be spammed to death anyway. You would need to make a huge quantity of of them to make any real difference in search engine positions as well as risk Google putting your website in the dreaded 'Sandbox'. So having used your time harvesting URL's to discover prospective spamming victims, wasting more time whist the spamming software does it's work and checking to determine if any of the comment stuck would it have been worth the time in the first place.
There will probably be a few people who come on here and comment to state that it does work if it is implemented correctly but for the time wasted would not it be easier to find a few webpage's with high page ranking and write a good comment related to their posts.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter how many backlinks you've got if the ones you do have are from high quality - high page ranking and related websites as these are worth much more and so are almost certainly going to attract referrals too.
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