A New Kind Of Spam?

March 3, 2009

Today, I discovered something new in my spam filter. It was a series of comments from different websites that at first glance looked like a trackback. They all ended in mid sentence using three periods like this…

What struck me is that for the most part the comments made sense and were relevant to SEO. They even included references to SEOmoz.org and Search Engine Watch, both well respected sites. However, they were not clever enough to fool the Askimet spam filter. Even if they had our comments are moderated and we always catch this garbage.

All four of these spam comments, arrived back to back and were easy to spot when I cleaned out the spam filter. Out of curiosity I visited each of these websites and they were generic blogs that had no comments. However, I noticed that they all had a PR of 3. None of these blogs had much of anything to link to as far as quality content goes.

What this shows is that this kind of spam does indeed work for these sites at least in gaining some PR. Which is sad, but it is what it is. So if you see these names appear in your comments you can be assured that it is from a spammer.

Ronsonbg
Things to do for your boy friend
Russmir
Humor Religion

I know this will not make much of a difference, but I can only tolerate so much of this crap before I have to speak out. It also shows how easy it is to game Google’s Page Rank. These sites then pass link juice along to other of their sites.

Call me an old fashioned white hat kinda guy but I rather enjoy earning links.

We are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful links as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”

The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv. We also use the Top Commenter plugin as well!

It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.

Are you ready to exchange comments for links?

This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business SEO solutions and venture further.

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