There are thousands of blogs that are available online. If you are a blog owner, chances are that you have had spam comments. What’s curious about them is what is behind them? Most of these spam comments are all about promoting something – whether it is an online dating site, a pharmaceutical site, or some other bogus website or link that can cause you nothing but grief.
In under two hours today I eliminated more than 50 spam comments from this very blog. What are these people getting out of this?
Chances are that someone is trying to increase their back-links. You can stop enabling them and here is how:
1. Do not allow automatic approval of comments – Make sure that all comments need to be approved by a moderator before being posted to your blog. You could wind up very embarassed to find out that you are promoting a website selling the latest clone of Viagra or promoting some pornography website.
2. Delete them as soon as possible! - Make sure that you first flag the comment as spam and then delete the comment. If you flag the comment as spam and still let it sit there in your your blog, you have enabled the spammer by providing him/her with back-links. The comment sitting in your spam box will sit there and will still be accessible even if it’s not visible.
3. Notify the email service – Check out the email address. If it’s a @yahoo or @gmail address, copy and paste the comment to your standard email and send a message to the email carrier. Let them know that the person is spamming (this can be time consuming). Don’t waste a ton of time on this because chances are that they are merely changing email addresses.
4. Google AdSense – If you are feeling particularly brave, go to the link in the comment and use “view source”. Get the persons Google AdSense number (usually near the end of the source code) and report them to AdSense as a spammer. This may not stop them but it will at least slow them down (til they open another AdSense account).
Summary
It’s not bad enough we have to contend with spam in our email, but our blogs could be enabling spammers. Do your part to help stop them!
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