Linkbuilders: Please Get Less Obvious About Your Commenting Tactics

July 13, 2009
By: Drew Meyers
Author's Website: http://virtualresults.net

There were three comments on Geek Estate Blog this morning that I canned due to being blatant attempts to build links with specific keywords as anchor text. This type of link building is fairly easy to spot because the comments seldom add any value to the conversation — but the three this morning were all beyond blatantly obvious. Why? In addition to adding no value and being on old posts, one e-mail address included the word “linkexchanged” and the other “elinkbuilders”. It’s fairly obvious what [nameremoved].linkexchanged@gmail.com and elinkbuilders@gmail.com do for a living.

To the linkbuilders out there, please just do us all a favor and stop these SPAMMY tactics — you’re benefitting no one and damaging your clients’ reputations in the process. Or, if you insist on continuing these tactics (which I wouldn’t recommend), at least get less obvious about it so your comments stand a chance of not getting canned by blog editors.

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davidjonhston

yes i agree with you guys there are too much annoying spammers around and we must try to find a way to get rid of these.

Swansonager

Drew, someone actually using those keywords in their email is quite amusing to be honest. Some people just don't get it - and it's beyond annoying to say the least. If it weren't for great comment spam plugins, we'd all be hating life. We should all be thanking the providers of the best plugins daily, imo :) Cheers, Matthew

Paul Trippett

I have found Akismet does a good job of stopping 95% of spam comments but they just look blatantly obvious its a spam comment when you look at it from the word press admin screen. What I have found site doing now is reposting your article content and sending a trackback to the original site. Doesnt matter how much you try these people will always find new ways to spam a blog no matter how hard we try to stop them

drewmeyers

Me too Jay - it's getting annoying. Can't they go find something worthwhile to do with their lives?

Jay Thompson

Amen. I've been hit hard by these numbskulls lately. It's annoying beyond belief.

TomRoyce

My favorite are on 3 different posts the same IP address pops up with comments from 3 different people, all with a link back to the same site. Usually put up at 3 am. It makes hitting the spam key easy.

Joshua Dorkin @ BiggerPockets

We just delete every comment from these linkbuilders. SPAM city! Our comment policies are ignored by these guys, so their posts are treated with the same respect --> into the garbage!