DoFollow Blog Comment Spam

13 Responses to “DoFollow Blog Comment Spam”

1. dextro on October 24th, 2008 2:08 pm

   It happens all the time mate!We must be more responsible as a blogger. This is a very good program in my opinion,but if we don’t be responsible it won’t last long.

2. dextro from not just english written blog like the other on October 24th, 2008 2:11 pm

   sorry,I forget the keywordluv mate!

3. kouji from haiku poems examples on October 27th, 2008 12:50 pm

   indeed. i’ve seen this on some other former do follow blogs. they just get inundated by comments, which did not appear to have been posted in good faith, so they decide that their do follow experiment is no longer worth pursuing.

   it’s indeed a shame.

   still, it’s tricky trying to find the line where a comment becomes a spam comment. for example, strangely enough, i usually am more active on no follow blogs nowadays because i know that if i like what i read i can basically say so, and that’s alright.

   you also make a good point in your policy. i’ve had comments flagged as spam recently, and because those flags were directed through akismet, i suffered much grief while waiting for akismet to sort me out.

   so sometimes i try to pick and choose where i comment nowadays, and on which post, both because i want to be able to contribute to the discussion, and also because i don’t want to end up in comment limbo again.

4. John from Website Building Biz on October 28th, 2008 11:51 am

   The thing is, you don’t really get less spam by having comment links set to nofollow! I’ve dealt with spam comments from automated bots since the day my websites got indexed in the search engines.

   Now, it can be very annoying when comments seem thin or excessively complimentary while ignoring the content of the post, but I won’t “spam” people for it. The conditional nofollow plugin is nice, or better yet I’ll approve the comment minus the link!

   Hey, I get hecklers that are serious - why not compliments that are serious? Its pretty harsh that someone could end up in Akisment limbo just because they were trying to say something nice.

5. Do-Follow Mike on October 28th, 2008 3:13 pm

   I agree John,

   I don’t flag someone as spam unless it is obviously spam, but my Spam Karma plugin usually traps those comments and removes them for me automatically.

   Comments that are questionable, or not up to your standards should not be flagged as spam with Askimet - that’s just wrong.

   Just delete those comments.

   Sorry someone flagged your comments as spam with Askimet, Kouji.

   Mike

6. Rados from wholesale salon equipment on November 4th, 2008 1:09 am

   I think you should use “linkylove”. It should help you get rid of spammy comments and improve the quality of comments. Only regular readers will benefit from dofollow links and you’ll receive quality comments, because most of the spammers will have your blog tagged as “nofollow” and will hence give up on posting spammy comments.

   BTW: “This is great info, I now understand this better. I like your blog and layout and will be returning often”.

   Just did some copy/paste to save time

   Cheers!

7. Hicham from Hicham Maged on November 5th, 2008 11:04 pm

   Well Mike, this is a “side effect” for turnning on the dofollow. Aside the hunted spam, I’ve seen a lot of comments over mine too just to get a back link and the silly thing is that they are irrelevant!

   Dofollow dosn’t mean to accept any comments, right? It means you respect who read your blog and I wonder why people just drop and hurry?

8. Chris on November 19th, 2008 8:31 pm

   There are 2 problems with dofollow. One is obviously the spammers, especially internet marketers. They really are abusing one of my sites so I may have to add back my nofollow link. But the second problem comes from us, the ones who offer the dofollow. We are the ones who added the dofollow link and this is a free link. How many people can pass up on something that is free? Not too many if we are being truly honest. But all I expect from my free gift is just some respect back from those who benefit from the gift. I totally agree with your post and hope many more will read it and understand. Comment, but show the decency of writing something worthwhile and beneficial for the post. But I’m sure we will never win the war totally against the spammers.

9. sora on November 22nd, 2008 10:01 pm

   i think it’s 90 °/° of blog comments so if you delete them you will end up with only 4 or 5 comments that discuss the topic of the post

10. Seonewbie on November 24th, 2008 8:29 pm

    It’s frustrating sometimes to have to manually moderate all those spammy comments. However what is good with Dofollows is that it promotes discussions. As for me, when trying to google for a fresh portion of Dofollows, I sometimes find interesting posts that I really would want to comment on

11. Mike from Got My Girlfriend Back on December 9th, 2008 4:40 pm

    I like that you spell out your blog comment rules.

    It really doesn’t take much time to read the post you’re commenting on, and provide some relevant comments.

    Putting a little effort into providing good comments is the least you can do to get back a nice link.

12. Marble Host on December 12th, 2008 12:16 pm

    i totally agree with u dude.Good post.

13. marblehost on December 27th, 2008 4:46 am

    I came back again to this read this part again.
    I must say i too have seen most of the spammer too make comments saying this is nice blogs , thanks likewise.

    Those are general things. Without coming to the blog even we can say like that.

    Then i hope you are in right way.

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