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Well said, Patricia. If you're known to have blogs that do not use the rel=”nofollow” on outward links, you get even more of these folk who believe they're not spamming. It's a little more work to have to trash them, but it's got to be done if you want to do the quality control to ensure you have only comments with substance and interest for other readers. I hope Google appreciates the effort we all put in to try to maintain quality on the Web.
One could say this a slightly more nobler form of spam, instead of the usually links and general nonsense. I genuinely believe this guy thinks that he has something to offer. This is the problem when anyone anywhere can make use of web 2.0. The only alternative to this is to go private and not make the material available to unregistered users.
Hi Leo, I agree with you that maybe he thinks he has something valuable, but don't you think it's up to us who, it seems know better, to perhaps help to enlighten the online community? Maybe we'll help to put him on the right track so he can make some real money–I hope.
Hi Patricia
Thanks for this. I agree with your general definition of spam, but as I'm sure you know it is often difficult to differentiate between a meaningful contribution and just a generic comment that could apply to almost any post. I am surprised that spammers don't try harder to fashion their comments so they are less obvious.
It wouldn't be at all hard to do it legitimately. It would just take a bit more knowledge/effort. MOral of the story is, do your research I suppose.
Should I believe that majority of commenter are just spammers? They always disclose something very funny and stupid which might be a wonderful gift from them to to others. In no time I can find his site in Akismet, well, that is a hell for all spammers and their customers along with their sites. May be it is very difficult to decide which is legit and which is not but I know now after having 10 blogs(It took so long for me to learn all that).
maybe he is a real man who commenting to your blog. But his post comment don't have correlation with your article. Thats why you mark it as spamm comment. I'll do the same way if i found that comment in my blog too.
Try Disqus: much better than akismet in my opinion.
Yes Patricia I do agree that we have to hold people accountable. Is that not the number factor in any community?
we dont have it.
come on be soft
On your url wellwrittenwords, the same thing shows on your article. By heart I would like to clap for whatever your article says
Thanks a lot and keep writing
It is difficult to find a single legit comment on a lot of blogs(Majority of them are “do follow”). There is no question of such spam on no follow blogs because they are useless for spammers. I think there are many more ways to seek links but in this ways(blog comments) we just ruin others and ourselves. Your definition for spam is pretty fair and right though.
whoa.. your on fire dude, and that man made your breakfast taste bitter, its really funny how other people do things, for me posting a link as your name is fine as long as you are contributing to the conversation, but advertising on blog is quite childish and considered as unprofessional sides of SEO, it really leaves a bad impression of this job..
by the way you still manage to give advice on how to give traffic, and its so nice of you..
whoa.. your on fire dude, and that man made your breakfast taste bitter, its really funny how other people do things, for me posting a link as your name is fine as long as you are contributing to the conversation, but advertising on blog is quite childish and considered as unprofessional sides of SEO, it really leaves a bad impression of this job..
by the way you still manage to give advice on how to give traffic, and its so nice of you..