Associate Programs Newsletter #533 July 14, 2012.
I've been researching comment spam on blogs and was staggered to
discover the same item of spam appearing on more than 4 MILLION
websites.
You know that slightly suspicious looking blog comment you
approved yesterday? Well, your instincts were probably right. It
might have been posted to a million or so other blogs, too.
Yes, that's what the blog spamming industry is achieving these
days.
Google's latest Penguin algorithm updates have slowed blog
spammers a little, but they're still churning out millions of
garbage comments, written in a way that's designed to trick you.
Are you confident you know how to recognize comment spam? Have a
look at the deceptive examples I discovered.
How many of them appear on YOUR blog?
Some of them fooled me.
Are the spammers fooling you?
Plausible Lies Blog Spammers Tell
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/articles/plausible-lies-blog-spammers-tell.html
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The devilishly slippery slope
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It seems to me there's a devilishly slippery slope involved in
comment spam.
It goes something like this...
1. It all starts so innocently... First, you do searches in
Google, find relevant blogs in your niche, and take part in the
conversation. You post helpful, thoughtful comments. You make
friends and build business relationships.
2. Next, you hire an employee to do the commenting for you. The
quality suffers a little, but you're freed up to do other
things.
3. Then you decide you can save money by hiring an overseas
assistant to post comments on blogs. The quality suffers some
more, but you put up with that.
4. You experiment with using a blog commenting service, which
promises "relevant" results and posts hundreds of comments for a
few cents each. If you receive any complaints, you ignore them.
5. Then you step up (or is is down?) to buying a tool which
"spins" comments and promises that you can post thousands of
comments in minutes. Perhaps to start with, you use it just to
find relevant blogs quickly. But those other options look
tempting...
There should be a law against it.
Maybe there is already.
If the CAN-SPAM Act can be applied to commercial messages in
Facebook, perhaps there's nothing to stop it being applied to
comment spam?
But how on earth would you decide who to prosecute, and at which
stage of the slope?
Where are you on the slippery slope? I'd be interested in hearing
your views.
I'd also like to know if you are allowing disguised comment spam
to remain on your blog. Is it fooling you?
And if any of you are posting auto-generated blog comments by the
thousand, how's that working for you? Surely Google has figured
out exactly what you're doing, so why are you persisting with
that garbage?
I'm curious to know what you think...
Plausible Lies Blog Spammers Tell
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/articles/plausible-lies-blog-spammers-tell.html
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Thought for today: What to do
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you
have to do." - Epictetus.
All the best
Allan Gardyne
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