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Comment Spamming - Just Say No!
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Article Overview: In a recent article, on the ever-useful Google Webmasters blog, Adel Saoud and Paolo Petrolini have written an excellent piece covering Comment Spamming.bad-inbound-links
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Comment Spamming - Just Say No!
In a recent article, on the ever-useful Google Webmasters blog, Adel Saoud and Paolo Petrolini have written an excellent piece covering Comment Spamming.bad-inbound-links
This is the practice of users logging into your blog and then posting random links back to theirs or one of their clients’ business sites, often ones with no relation to your website or even your blog. As they also point out this can be modified by posting some generalised comment such as “Great article” before writing some gibberish.
Not only is this frustrating to the owner of the blog, who has to go in manually and clean out this rubbish, but Google say it’s essentially a waste of your time if you follow this practice yourself.
They say “At best, a link spammer might spend hours doing spammy linkdrops which would count for little or nothing because Google is pretty good at devaluing these types of links.”
Google strongly suggest that rather than waste time following these dubious practices, instead put your energies into producing good quality helpful material that actually benefits people on the internet.
This is always good practice for any website and one we strongly advocate at The Media Cube. Good content and the right approach to SEO will help you to be recognised by the web community as a reliable source of information and that will help build links to your site.
Some top tips to help avoid spam in your comments are:
* Disallow anonymous posting.
* Use CAPTCHAs and other methods to prevent automated comment spamming.
* Turn on comment moderation.
* Use the "nofollow" attribute for links in the comment field.
* Disallow hyperlinks in comments.
* Block comment pages using robots.txt or meta tags.
If you want help building ethical traffic to your website please contact us and we will show you how to keep on Google’s right side.
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Re: Tactics for Blog Traffic
- Wow some really great advice for blogging here and just one more. Comment on other blogs with a link back to your own. Just don't spam, leave a comment that is relevant to the post that has been made.
MichelleJ
Re: EvanCarmichael.com Directory?
- [quote="Evan":15wg1171]Thanks Cheryl for the suggestion!
The biggest hurdle we've had in considering creating a directory is getting spammed and not having the resources to moderate it effectively. I'll keep it on the list though! Thanks again![/quote:15wg1171]
Spamming has become the canker worm on Internet that cannot be easily removed. This should not stop us from this noble idea. I believe in the future there will be effective ways for us to fight spamming
Re: Craiglist Advertising - Google Analytics Results
- Craigslist has strict rules on posting adverts and they should all be for local ads. The fact you are posting in one city and then another means you *may* be breaking these rules.
If you ramped this up and craigslist got annoyed they may report you to your affiliate and advertising networks which will then ban you.
If you are not obeying craigslist rules and advertising your website, you are essentially spamming them. Spamming is not a long term business model and can get you in trouble.
Re: Twitter vs Facebook
- [quote="barrysarner":ejpeof1u]I know this is a naive question but i'm really not sure:
What do you tweet ? Business? promote your business? Personal? Are there things you can't do?
ALSO :Is there a rule book? Is there a success formula using twitter?[/quote:ejpeof1u]
I do a mixture of business tips, personal updates, success quotes, retweets, questions, promoting, etc... It just depends on what's on my mind right then.
I don't think there's anything you can't do. I've seen everything on there. But I suppose there probably are some rules. Spamming is obviously frowned upon.
Re: EvanCarmichael.com Directory?
- [quote="ideasuniversity":2n5zsmhv][quote="Evan":2n5zsmhv]Thanks Cheryl for the suggestion!
The biggest hurdle we've had in considering creating a directory is getting spammed and not having the resources to moderate it effectively. I'll keep it on the list though! Thanks again![/quote:2n5zsmhv]
Spamming has become the canker worm on Internet that cannot be easily removed. This should not stop us from this noble idea. I believe in the future there will be effective ways for us to fight spamming[/quote:2n5zsmhv]
If you use CAPTCHA and make people confirm their email address before their account goes active that should help. There are other measures you can take too like maybe make them be a member for a certain number of days before they can do anything with the directory. Maybe add another moderator to help with the directory, etc...
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