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As a blogger, one soon attracts unwanted attention. Fortunately, there are tools that automatically block spam comments. Askimet and SpamKarma are the two I am employing on this blog.
But of late, there have been coming in new types of comments (and not just here). Genuine comments, but with a link to a commercial web-site. The name is not a real one, but a SEO friendly one.
So, what to do?
Rather than just deleting those comments as spam, I am (for now) simply removing the link.For now, I will keep my policy of “do follow” on all comments, just as a little thank-you to anyone taking the trouble of adding to this blog.
Tags: blogging, comment spam, commentspam, dofollow, fighting, spam, spamspam, wordpress
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21-Feb-08 at 04:24
Widgett Walls
I’ve been doing the same thing on my comments, frankly. It’s true: no good deed, such as dofollow, goes unpunished.
21-Feb-08 at 15:58
Hallvord R. M. Steen
Good idea. I saw someone in the discussion you linked to report that they had experienced apparently legitimate links that two months later redirected to some adult site, so removing dubious links from comments appears to be a better-safe-than-sorry precaution.
I think I’d rather delete the whole comment though, unless it *really* adds value to the discussion.
22-Feb-08 at 08:40
iDope
I wrote a plugin to block comment spam without resorting to captchas called WP Captcha-Free (Sorry for the shameless plug, I hope you dont take this as comment spam
. It uses a combination of time based hash and ajax to block spam. I use it myself of both my blogs and now get zero spam from an earlier 40+ per day. You can check it out at http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/
25-Feb-08 at 02:37
lena
I agree with you. If the comment is related to your topic and has sense, there’s no reason of deleting it. You’ll never know that you might learn from it too.
26-Feb-08 at 00:05
Minca
To leave comments is really good because you has more attention to your post. BTW you don’t use dofollow in comments.
26-Feb-08 at 09:27
Martin Weiss
You are right, Minca. Apparently the plug-in got disabled during the last update. Now it is up and running again. Thanks.