BuyBlogComments.com: Blog Comments And Backlinks For Sale
I think it’s a very sad state of affairs when the blogosphere gets to the point where services like BuyBlogComments.com are launched. This new service will for a fee leave ‘relevant’ comments on blogs that are human generated to increase the chances of the site owner not spotting the spam, to try and create backlinks. Three packages are available - $20 for 100 blog comments, $100 for 500 comments, and $200 for 1000 comments.
Services like these are going to make it much harder for site owners to stop spam comments. At the moment I’m doing a good job of stopping the human spam that is designed to generate backlinks, but it’s getting harder and harder. To try and dissuade human spammers, I’ve been removing any site names or urls from comments that are obviously just trying to take advantage of my ‘DoFollow’ policy.
However, I do have a couple of regular users where I’m very tempted to remove their comments as well, as sometimes they don’t add a lot of value and because I have a suspicion that they are leaving 4-5 poor quality comments all at once just so that they can get a link in my top commenters section.
I’m letting them through for now, but I’m reviewing my policy on a daily basis.
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Comment by i like socks on 19 January 2008:
i get some obvious comment spam on my site, but if the comments are thoughtfull and invite discussion then why not let them continue?
some the anchor text makes it obvious comment spam though. i wonder if putting “i like socks” as my achor will be let on this blog??
Comment by Data Entry on 29 December 2007:
I do think it depends on the industry you are in and how many people who are reading your site are likely to have their own site. If it’s, say, 90%, then you’re bound to get more comments if you dofollow and allow URLs…but then the quality of comments probably goes down. It’s a balance
Comment by Sound of Music on 27 November 2007:
Now what’s wrong with drawing attention? What about those of us who can’t afford buying the stuff? And the owner also gets traffic from this, so …
Comment by Sophie on 15 November 2007:
I can’t decide what to do on my blogs - I hate spam so much I tend to want every last protection from it, but if it reduces the number of comments and prevents decent debate then that’s gonna kill the blog eventually.
I do think it depends on the industry you are in and how many people who are reading your site are likely to have their own site. If it’s, say, 90%, then you’re bound to get more comments if you dofollow and allow URLs…but then the quality of comments probably goes down. It’s a balance.
Comment by Collin LaHay on 25 October 2007:
I wouldn’t be surprised if WordPress was forced to add nasty image verifications to the comments, as I don’t see any other solution. =(
Comment by Kline on 23 October 2007:
I don’t think you can really stop real human scammers. I mean, if I were to target a niche, say SEO, I could type up about 10-50 actual long relevent targetted comments, and then just copy/paste my way through 100s of blog posts.. Every article I can find on buyblogcomments, I can just post this comment I’ve written right here. Anyone who would have blogged about these guys probably will write about the same thing, and.. who would actually see this comment here as a piece of spam??
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//comment template off//.. no.. i’m not really doing this, but I could see how a comment like my lame one above could make it through any ‘human filter’ out there. Honestly, right now, its not even about the # of backlinks you have, its about the quality, so a targetted attack like this, I do it enough times, I could rank #2 for buyblogcomments if I really wanted to….
yay. on to start my lame empire