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Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing. It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online discussion boards. Any web application that accepts and displays hyperlinks submitted by visitors may be a target. Adding links that point to the spammer's web site artificially increases the site's search engine ranking. An increased ranking often results in the spammer's commercial site being listed ahead of other sites for certain searches, increasing the number of potential visitors and paying customers. HistoryThis type of spam originally appeared in internet guestbooks, where spammers repeatedly fill a guestbook with links to their own site and no relevant comment, to increase search engine rankings. If an actual comment is given it is often just "cool page", "nice website", or keywords of the spammed link. In 2003, spammers began to take advantage of the open nature of comments in the blogging software like Movable Type by repeatedly placing comments to various blog posts that provided nothing more than a link to the spammer's commercial web site. Jay Allen created a free plugin, called MT-BlackList, for the Movable Type weblog tool (versions prior to 3.2) that attempted to alleviate this problem. Many blogging packages now have methods of preventing or reducing the effect of blog spam, although spammers have developed tools to circumvent them. Many spammers use special blog spamming tools like Trackback Submitter to bypass comment spam protection on popular blogging systems like Movable Type, Wordpress, and others. Possible solutionsFrom Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How can you prevent comment spam when you own a website? Q. Which is the best way, please this is urgent, spammers are taking over the site Asked by teacher's pet - Fri Jun 22 21:11:07 2007 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Hi, First, if you have your own website the spammers are either flooding you with emails to your website domain name, or you have a web page form, like a Contact Us page, that is not secure and they have hijacked that form. There are a number of things you can do. If the spam is coming to you for a legitimate email address from your website, you should be able to access your website's Control Panel and change your password, even put quotas and limits on specific email accounts including turning on spam protectors. You can tell if the spam is coming to you from one of your own email accounts, for example it will have your domain name in it (name@yourwebsite.com) unless the spam is spoofed to look like that. Do change your password… [cont.] Answered by desertcities - Fri Jun 22 21:22:40 2007 How can i mark my comments on youtube to spam? Q. Does someone have to mark the comment as spam, or can i do it my self? Asked by michaelkioken - Wed Aug 12 13:38:38 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. You can do it yourself, when you're logged in. Just go to the video with the comment and press the "mark as spam"-button on the right of the comment. Good Luck. Answered by Job - Thu Aug 13 11:22:12 2009 Does it help or harm your site's SEO if you comment (not spam, but comment) on blogs?
Q. I have been given a list of over 2000 PR4+ blogs. Will it help my site's search engine optimization if I read the blogs and comment on the post with a signature? Such as: Comment: Blah blah blah -my name www.mysite.com Will that help the search engines see me and appear in rankings higher? I won't spam and say irrelevent stuff like, "Hey everybody, check out my site! www.mysite.com," but I would comment on what I think about the article and then sign my name and website. You can find several good ones on eBay, just make sure to check their feedback before you buy and see what other buyers said about the product. Asked by Ian - Sun Feb 3 01:20:25 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. Ian, this is one of the most relevant ways to increase your inbound link numbers while helping your rankings with your website. Do your comment signature like this. local seo services - Terry Reeves Or whatever you would like to rank for. I posted this signature in blogs for several days and I now rank on the first page of Google for local seo services. It is one of the methods I use when ranking clients sites as well. Google now considers the hyphen ( -) a word or phrase separator. So I also rank very well for my own name. This is not the best type of inbound targeted link you can get, but they are very effective with rankings and PageRank at this time. Also. Do not concern yourself with follow blogs over nofollow blogs. I have… [cont.] Answered by Terry R - Sun Feb 3 17:12:37 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Comment Spam" See also:
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