Spam Her, I Don’t Even Know Her
Every once in a while I cruise through the comments that Aksimet has held back, just to check and see if it has held anything back that wasn’t a spam. My site, The Real Taiwan gets the most spam out of any site I have, so I was going through recently and wanted to share different types of spam I am receiving.
Why do people target comments for spam?
There are three things I can see right away. One, they are trying to build up backlinks to boost their websites ratings in Google and other search engines. If the comment makes it to the site, and the site doesn’t have nofollow comments, then they will get a link that way and earn valuable Page Ranking (PR). Second, if it is a nofollow site, and the comment makes it through, then they still get a link in your comments that may be clicked on and generate traffic for their site, which in turn would make the site stronger. Third, it is easy because they have robots (bots) doing the work for them, meaning it is automated. they sit back and can watch the links come in. Of course this is black hat and not a nice thing to do. I think the profit margin on these drugs must be so high, that even one sale could be profitable. Yes, I think people do buy these things online.
Here is one type, and these are usually for drugs like viagara, ephedra, tramadol or an ever growing list of drugs I don’t know, care about, or have any clue what function they have. I do know what viagara does though…;)
What is tramadol used for. Tramadol no prescription. Tramadol….
Here is another one, from a realted website, and it is what I call a quality spam comment, meaing it looks like they actually read the site. If there weren’t so many caught up in Akismet, or if they didn’t have a few little errors I would let them go. Here is an example:
Greetings from an English teacher! I came across your blog posting after searching for tefl course and your post on in Taiwan: Taiwan Behind in English Proficiency makes an interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I will search online more next Tuesday when I have the day off.
The thing about this post is they used a post title in the comment, but they forgot the first word of the post which is English. The real title is English in Taiwan: Taiwan Behind in English Proficiency.
Their site is a PR5, and they are resorting to these techniques. They have 24,800 pages indexed in Google. The obvious question is, if they did this to get the site PR that high, then why hasn’t Google or another search engine found out about it and cut them out?
Here is another spam from them:
Hello, I came across your blog posting after searching for taiwan and your post on of TRT, friends links page, Taiwan Blogs makes an interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I will search online more next Tuesday when I have the day off.
Again, they made a post and left the first word of the title out. They also picked a page with only links on it, so it isn’t interesting to read at all… What exactly will they search for too?.. haha. Probably more sites to spam.
I couldn’t help myself and wrote them an email. Now, I didn’t report them, but I want to. I wonder if they will respond. Here is the email:
Hello,
I have reported your site to the major search engines for engaging in the black hat practice of comment spamming. I would recommend that you immediately stop this practice as it only serves to make your site look bad and when the search engines find out what you are doing, they will penalize your site.
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John
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