What’s With The Spammy Comments? Seriously!
I started out with this blog being a do-follow blog because I believe in giving back to those who contribute useful comments. I can live with the fact that they might be adding the comment only for a link back as long as they also add something solid.
However, sadly most of the comments turn up being the ‘Thank you for this post’ type comments, while others don’t even bother with that and just copy an old comment that made it through moderation. Even worse are those that are not even relevant to the post.
No Follow to Do Follow to No Follow
Due to these tactics, a lot of do-follow blogs have decided to go back to being no-follow blogs. Although, this blog is still do-follow, I am seriously considering that option if the quality of comments keeps deteriorating. It can be very time consuming to wade through the spam to get to the real comments and sometimes they get missed out on or get delayed in posting.
What’s Happened to Akismet
Another issue for us bloggers is that Akismet is no longer working at an optimal level. It is letting through some very blatant spam. And when I say blatant, I mean adult related spam that should never get past any spam filters.
Thanks to the comment moderation option, these comments never make it to the blog. May be it is time to add another spam comment removal plugin.
Anyway…
….the point is that if you want blogs to remain do-follow and keep sending their page rank and link benefit your way, make sure to write comments that add something to the discussion. It goes without saying that please read the post before commenting.
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Deborah Bradley says:
On September 29th, 2009 5:50 pm
Its sad that your resorting to make this blog a No Follow blog but why not just moderate the comment so that you can filter the spammy ones, I know its a hard task to moderate especially if you are having tones of comments coming in.
Erum Munir says:
On October 15th, 2009 12:10 am
Deborah, I haven’t yet made it no follow but currently I am only getting 2 out of 30 comments that are genuine. Any higher and all I’ll be doing is moderating comments. So I’m going to give do-follow another chance for now.