Blog comment spammers get bolder

Ever wanted to spam blog comments to the world? Create thousands of back links, and annoy bloggers the world over? Now it’s easy, with automated comment spamming systems.

Yeesh. Comment spammers are getting bolder all the time. This morning I’ve received two piece of comment spam advertising blog comment spam systems…

Don’t waste your money. Firstly, all modern blogging systems implement REL=NOFOLLOW links in comments, so the backlinks and trackbacks advertised by these systems are worthless. Secondly, advanced spam catching systems like Akismet weed crap comments out anyway. Since installing Akismet in May of 2006, it has trapped over 1.4 million spam comments for me. Currently, Akismet is weeding out approximately 2,400 spam comments per day.

There’s only one way to build quality backlinks – have something to say, and work hard at building relationships with others who have something to say.

Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.

Tagged as: blog, Blogging, Spam

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lankapo August 26, 2008 at 11:27 pm: wow millions of spam trapped by you. Your blog must be famous then.

Spammer is bad people. They are selfish and materialistic. Just send them to zoo in lion cage haha.

I got spam comment evryday, and have to waste my time delete it.

Spammer sux