Comments on: BuyBlogComments.com: Blog Comments And Backlinks For Sale

By: i like socks

i like socks — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:23:24 +0000

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??

By: Data Entry

Data Entry — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:08:19 +0000

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 itâ€™s, say, 90%, then youâ€™re bound to get more comments if you dofollow and allow URLsâ€¦but then the quality of comments probably goes down. Itâ€™s a balance

By: Sound of Music

Sound of Music — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:19:23 +0000

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 …

By: Sophie

Sophie — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:15:34 +0000

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.

By: Collin LaHay

Collin LaHay — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:25:21 +0000

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. =(

By: Kline

Kline — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:22:41 +0000

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

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:48:43 +0000

I guess I somewhat disagree with your notion. The reason that most people comment at all is because they can call attention to their own site or blog. If this wasn’t true why would they even bother putting their website in the website field on the comment form – just like everyone who has posted a comment here has… So, are they ALL spam. Your argument would seem to say yes, even though they are relevant. 95% of the time people comment to call attention to their own site – simple as that. So, if the comments you buy are really relevant, there’s little difference…

And anyone posting here can’t argue otherwise – they put their URL in the optional Website field.

By: Everton

Everton — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:34:46 +0000

@Shankar

That won’t help solve this problem – as human ’spammers’ will just keep doing what they are doing

By: Shankar

Shankar — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:25:36 +0000

May be you should add the image verifycation method to avoid a few spammers. In one of my forum, I added a checkbox near the login form saying “I am not a spam” and the forums logs in only when u tick that checkbox. This simple idea reduced the spammers by 90%. and only a hardcore human spammer who is dare to do these thing come now which is easy to block. :)

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:07:18 +0000

A lot of people are saying SK2 is better than Akismet. I think I’ll go take a look at SK2. Thanks EB.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:02:59 +0000

I’m disappointed to see the likes of Wendy Piersall dropping DoFollow and even Chris Garrett considering doing so purely on the basis of this new “service”. I won’t be dropping DoFollow unless it has an adverse affect on my site. What I may do, though, is review my comment policy so that I will only accept comments where people use their real name or a non-product/site related handle.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:28:57 +0000

I have no qualms whatsoever about leaving the meat of a comment and stripping out the URL and even a company name. It’s a lot of additional work for me, bu i actually mod all comments right now. I really do need to get a good spam filter system in place, but I read reviews for each of them and it seems that genuine comments sometimes sift into the spam catch.

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:15:58 +0000

Le Baron

It’s probably because Akismet isn’t the fastest to adapt and spam levels have increased in general over the last 10 days. You should switch to SK2 – you won’t regret it

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:04:16 +0000

I was wondering why the number of spam caught by Akismet was increasing over the last few days. It’s probably connected to this.

By: Buy Blog Comments: A Dark Day in the Blogosphere | Ian Fernando

Buy Blog Comments: A Dark Day in the Blogosphere | Ian Fernando — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:12:42 +0000

[...] Connected Internet Says: Services like these are going to make it much harder for site owners to stop spam comments. At the moment Iâ€™m doing a good job of stopping the human spam that is designed to generate backlinks, but itâ€™s getting harder and harder. To try and dissuade human spammers, Iâ€™ve been removing any site names or urls from comments that are obviously just trying to take advantage of my â€˜DoFollowâ€™ policy. [...]

By: 3gp

3gp — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:20:42 +0000

I think it is over hyped every one is talking about it. It is not worthy enough to be discussed.