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Spring Break: Comment Spam Gone Wild!
In honor of Spring Break, we remind you why spam filters and comment moderation are blogger tools to cherish:
All the best indeed. What baffles me about this approach is that as someone who has done e-mail marketing, if you’re at all smart you figure out what triggers spam filters. Given that there are some pretty predictable comment-spam standards for the big blogging softwares — and that comment moderation tends to be default to on rather than off for neophyte users — you’d think some of these clowns would actually, you know, try to link-spam one at a time. (Most of the set-defaults tend to trigger at two. I’d feel bad for pointing this out, but it is that obvious if you look in either WordPress or Blogger settings.)
This is why the Big Three created the nofollow standard to start with. I tend not to believe that even on some of the bigger sites (read: popular and ranking) that even slipping in one or two links at a time, though methodically, does all that much for overall performance of the site.
It’s far better to piss people off and create link-bait, in my mind. It’s also more fun!