Blog Spammer Fooled Me
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I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my blog?
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely, Timur.
I recently received that comment on my blog. I was pleased that Timur liked my blog post and wanted to copy it to his own blog. You know you’re doing things right when you get blog comments like this – right?
Well, not in this case! I have more than one blog, and guess what I found? This same exact comment showed up on more than one of my blogs. This is a blog spam comment.
I have to admit, I fell for it when I saw it the first time, but of course when I saw it on the second blog I knew it was spam.
The comment was flagged as spam by Spam Karma on my other blog, so someone had already caught on to this spammer and had flagged them as spam. I also flagged it as spam, so Timur (if that’s the spammers real name) will not be getting as many backlinks as he thought he would.
The lessons learned here are, that you must be using a spam detecting plugin like Askimet or Spam Karma on you blog. And, you need to be on your guard for these clever comments that appear real and flattering.
Mike
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I have received the same comment on one of my post it goes like author: http://www.engel-bedeutung.de “Hello I like your post “Amoxicillin Antibiotic Information!” so well that I like to ask you whether I should translate into German and linking back. Greetings Engel”
I felt so bad when i noticed it was a spam comment while i was reading your post. I shared the author so you can flag it
i use recaptcha for my comments, but i get also spam…. the last barrier is akismet
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I guess I judge the comments on my blog by whether it benefits the readers coming to that post. Even if Timur wasn’t a spammer and really did want to republish your post, I think that’s the sort of thing better dealt with your private email.
Wow, i came to this blog from google when i was searching for ‘how to find out whether a blog is do-follow or not’ – yup after getting into your blog i figured it out – i am having SEO for firefox plugin – but actually that no-follow links indicating feature was turned-off by me – now i turned it ON – yup – and about those spam comments – well, i used to get many comments even though my blog is not that popular – so i thought of installing akismat – and from then on no spam comments on my blog.
I think what happens is that companies hire people to place comments all over the place. Some people are less creative and they use the same comments. I think there is a lot of software out there that auto comments, creating alot of the same.
Coincidently, my blog is do follow as well.
http://www.canadian-money-advisor.ca/archives/ and I do welcome comments that are not spammy!
Cheers
Looks like the spamming methods are getting more complex. Sometimes I just wish the good old days of easy to spot, poor grammar spam comments would return!
I would agree with you. I got that message to in my recently launched love blog – Cupid Blogger Dot Com, my thought was like you before. But this spammers spam every blog post i have in my blog. Now i used WP-Ban to ban him to access my blog completely
Hi, I will keep an eye out for this comment now that I am a “Do follow” blog like yourself, Cheers
Yes you have to be careful. I think the most successful spam is the spam that says positive things about the blog or the author in some way.
It does look like Askimet works though – I am not quite sure how it works, but I know it is blocking comments on my blog
There are a number of blog auto-commenter scripts used by less-than-white SEOs and spammers. Some can be configured to look for blogs using ‘keywordluv’. Generally, a comment that does not directly relate to the post has been submitted using automated software.
I get a lot of spam and some spammers are getting harder and harder to tell if they are actually reading a post or not. I do have several blogs though also, so it does make it easy to spot someone who keeps duplicating the same comment everywhere! It is sad, because the comments seem legitimate, but when you see it show up on more than 1 blog you know that its not!
I can tell you from experience, from owning my own personal blog, most of the time, those comments like that usually are spam. Especially those “Nice Article!” Comments, those always irritate me.
I use Akismet and so far it’s caught just about everything. Although 4 or 5 legit posts were flagged which I had to manually approve, I can say it does a great job.
I think the comment is too general so it already kinda look spammy to me. Nancy’s story is a bit different since the title of the post is stated but still too general.
This shows though that spam-bots are becoming more and more “intelligent” so bloggers would have to be more vigilant in the fight against spam.
ma points are some people are used to say these words like ” awesome , very nice content.” or “i love your blog”.
i got to notice that all these kind of comments are quit spamm.. they jus believe to got their link or watever…
You gotta watch out for those spammers, just trying to get links without any regard for the blog owner. I will admit that the primary reason I blog comment is for links. That’s right, I said it, but it’s okay. I make sure that my comments are not spam like and I respond in an intelligent fashion. This is an intelligent post, right? It’s not spam. I will challenge anybody who dares call this spam, right now, on a wooden table in Mexico City.
Unfortunately spammers are getting a little bit better at what they do, spam. It used to be that you only would receive blog spam from people that could barely speak a word of english and it would stick out like a soar thumb, but apparently spamming is a good business and everyone has now jumped on the bandwagon.
The funny thing is that you could get a free link if you just left a real comment, but rather they risk no link at all to spam, maybe spamming is an addiction? Someone start up a spammers anonymous website where they can go to get support when their links don’t stick!
There should be a module on how to comment right:-) I always tell people to please do take time to read ones post and leave a relevant comment that will contribute something to the discussion. If you wanted to gain a back link then pay it with a good comment. This is just a matter of give and take.
I used to get those all the time. “I love reading your blog, I’m going to add you to my reader” or the real obvious ones “Keep up the good work, blah blah”. I’m sure these scripts will be more sophisticated over time and spammers will be harder to catch. I know some people just hire others to comment for them. The “human bots” are the hardest to catch.
anyway it is fine to get good comments, when it is a scam thn its too bad.,scamming is not easy to find out,but it will be too bad to receive these all..
I just stopped by your blog and thought I would say hello. I like your site design. Looking forward to reading more down the road.
Sometimes, some comments that look genuine may be spam. But other spammers may still be caught by using the same comments for other blogs as well. You’ll know if a comment is spam if the comment is not related to your blog post. Some spammers will just say, “I like your blog!” “I like your post”, etc. but they don’t even bother to read even a single post in your blog. Anyway, Askimet is reliable when it comes to catching spammers. Many bloggers are already using it.
Spammers are getting smarter day by day.. on the other hand anti spam methods are not very much effective..
Thanks for the information, it may prove useful to every one..
Comment spams are hard to fight down.Because spamers say simply it depends on a try : ) What can happen? In worst case the comment will not be published, but then there are tons of other places to try.The email spam is a little bit easier to manage, because of mail hurdling (grey listing).The detection depends on filters and of course the technic that a serious mail from a serious host will be resent when delayed.A spam host nearly never tries to resend the mail.The blog spams are different.All automatic detection can be overriden with a good written, authentic spam content making the admin believe it is a serious ment comment…
today spammer just like virus, always come up with something new, we must update aour anti spamm to protect our blog..
Spamming is really a great problem with us..
they are caught rarely..
Thank you for sharing your experience with spammers..
Disregarding the spam / not spam discussion, is it good to receive a comment like that? In terms of both copyright and duplicate content, I would’nt be too pleased to see my exact blog contents appearing on other websites than my own..
Whether we like it or not, spammers are here to stay, so we must be always on the lookout to clean them out.
perhaps you can try using capctha. spammers are frustrating, I also really hate spammers.
very useful information for me. i just stop my blogging because there are many spammers on my blog. Now I’m using commentluv plugin with my blog.
captcha is very useful for anti spam i use it in my blog too.
Captcha is not always a great way to solve the problem. Some spammers work manually. But what about that spammer-tracking system. How does it track spammers (ip, nick, same e-mail, same text)?
Hello, my name is Tony. I have a man’s health web-site, is a online ED guide. Since 2009 year, spammers was attacked my testimonial page. Every day i recive more 10-15 spam comments at email. I’am the owner this site, but not a admin. Please anybody can help me via explain how to install the captcha? Becouse, it’s rather bad for me…
Thanks, Tony.
Well, what kind of name is Timur anyways? Plus, the comment, i think, was too short and sweet to be a real sincere person.
Splogs are blogs that are setup specifically for improving ones search engine placement. They often take the content from another blog and put it on theirs and try to get a link from the other blog by using the ping back system.
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Hi,
Spamm comment are the big problem now days.
They are comes to the dofollow blog like ant comes on the food.
Use the spam filter for that.
I have seen a similar comment appearing in many blogs that I visit and surprisingly it was being approved by the blog owner, what the person said was that his English is not good but he enjoys reading the blog or something similar to that. So I think most of the blog owners got fooled and approved it.
I have to admit, I fell for it when I saw it the first time, but of course when I saw it on the second blog I knew it was spam
Happened to me few days ago but was a different comment “Thank you for your nice article,i bookmarked and i will link back to your post.”
Spammers are still stupid because later that day i received same comment from a different user so i knew that was spam.
Yeah! I’ve had to deal with that to, just they didn’t ask me for it. You could add a link to your own website, so that if they copy your content you are rewarded with a link. Of course most scrapers are smarter than that and would delete the link but some wouldn’t.
Anyway I wouldn’t worry to much about that, google won’t penalise duplicate content for the site that has the higher PR. These people are so lazy they are unlikely to succeed, so don’t pay attention to them and focus on your own blogging efforts.
If it was not a spam, I mean if the commenter really liked the post, would you let him copy? I don’t think so, duplicate contents is a no no.
That would be a great complement on your part if someone likes your post but copying one’s work is not a good idea at all. I’ve read some blogs before and some refers to another blog they have just read. I mean, there’s so many ways of showing you like the blog. It obviously is a spam.
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Yes we have to be very careful. “I think the most successful spam is the spam that says positive things about the blog or the author in some way.”
“Nice Article” , “Nice Informative Post” , “I enjoyed reading the complete article” – I think that these are the most common words that many of the spammer use.Firstly, i approve only those comments which i think that i can learn something from those lines commented by the reader and also if i feel the comment could be helpful for the readers.
It seems that spammers are trying some advanced techniques how to hide that they are spammers. If you had only one blog you would never discover that this guy is making useless comment instead of to be interested in your post. However, at least he made some effort and didn’t post stupid comment like “nice post”
The problem with these spammers is that they are getting more “evolved” making them to be very difficult to be detected by anti-spam system. But I agree with them here that CAPTCHA can still do the blocking of auto commenting and spamming.
At the momment i only have the one blog up and running so not seen any issues with duplicate comments but you post actually made me laugh.
I bet the people posting spam comments would have thought twice if they had known both blogs where created/owned by the creator/owner as to not get caught out. This said if they are going to spam they are going to spam regardless and this wouldn’t really have stopped them.
The best advice i can give is to use captcha where possible and if using wordpress have the Askimet pluggin installed and active.
There’s nothing wrong with getting tricked on occasion. I have the most trouble with people who can’t spell or if English is not their first language.
Is the comment short because of that or because they are just in a hurry to get onto the next blog…
Use recaptcha for blog so that these spammers or machines don’t fool you again.
After all it would very embarrassing if it happens again.
I also use WP-SPAMFREE for my wordpress blog (in addition to akismet and a few other anti-spam protection plugins). Works great. I include a link to the plugin below for WP users.
http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
oh hell!!! you must be pretty happy to see that someone wants to copy your blog , even i would have been so..but these spammers are total crap
thanks for sharing
Even on my Blog also we use to see many Spam Comments, that too in bulk…god knows why they keep posting even if i disapprove every time..
Well, we have to accept that link spam is now part of our lives.
Given Mr. G’s consideration for backlinks, you can expect link spammers creativity to boost, just as the virus coders got better at their stuff after the antivirus companies started to claim they were better.
Anti spam plugins are really a life saver to get rid of some of this junk (specially a chinese dude that leaves 3 or 4 comments daily…)
Anyway, just as machines, we can also be fooled… part of being human.
You should try WP-SPAMFREE, i am using and see that it is quite effective.
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I’m new to blogging, so I was excited when I got my first comment. I got three more comments over a few days from the same person on different posts, but they were legit. I was really exciteded last night when I saw I had three more all at once, but unfortunately, they were spam, so I had to delete almost half the comments I had.
Wow he sounds like a real person, good looking out, blogging is so much fun!
It happens also to me…
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I just have one blog and it is not even a “do follow” but it has been getting more and more spam as of late. Thanks to this article and all the comments found here for giving me some good ideas on how to combat spam.
Hey it’s so interesting. Someone fooled you…
Let me tell you one thing you should use wordpress spam filter plug-in for your blog. This will give you many advantages.
i get those comments way to often, they are written in such way that the comment suits different blog posts on different blogs
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It does look like Askimet works though – I am not quite sure how it works, but I know it is blocking comments on my blog
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i like this post, i use recaptcha for my comments
It seems that spammers are trying some advanced techniques how to hide that they are spammers. If you had only one blog you would never discover that this guy is making useless comment instead of to be interested in your post. However, at least he made some effort and didn’t post stupid comment like “nice post”.
Not the smartest comment due. Nobody wants to get there post copied. It could give you duplicate content and Google can punish you for that. And you loose visitors who maybe find the other post instead.
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I think that this thread is for laugh purpose and nothing else…