Comments on: Google Groups Comment Spam http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html Internet Marketing, Lead Acquisition, Online Business Strategy and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Igor The Troll http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-203519 Igor The Troll Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:45:18 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-203519 Andy thanks for mentioning phsdl, I put a lot of work into it and it has helped cleaning up Malware Spam. So You will not not find much Malware Spam redirect domains on Google groups or blogspot now days. But passive Spam is hard to ger read off. Even on my Human rights activist blog I got passive Spam but I have the setting on Wordpress set to have first time commentators moderated and the hello I like your post will not be posted..:) I just come back from SES London, too bad we could not meet in person and have a beer. The show really sucked not many people were there. Andy thanks for mentioning phsdl, I put a lot of work into it and it has helped cleaning up Malware Spam. So You will not not find much Malware Spam redirect domains on Google groups or blogspot now days. But passive Spam is hard to ger read off. Even on my Human rights activist blog I got passive Spam but I have the setting on WordPress set to have first time commentators moderated and the hello I like your post will not be posted..:)

I just come back from SES London, too bad we could not meet in person and have a beer. The show really sucked not many people were there.

]]> By: iDope http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-203282 iDope Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:02:07 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-203282 Its all a matter of volume. I dont want to be a human spam filter and spend every minute of my day checking for spam. Akismet works okay for me but lets through couple of spam frequently (especially the ones without links). And I hate captchas, I won't put one on my blog. So I wrote a plugin to block comment spam without resorting to captchas called WP Captcha-Free (Sorry for the shameless plug, I hope you don't take this as comment spam ;) ). It uses a combination of time based hash and ajax to block spam (or atleast ensure the commenter was human). I use it myself on both my blogs and now get almost zero spam from an earlier 40+ per day. This doesn’t replace Akismet but does complement it very well. You can check it out at http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/ If you do, let me know what you think! Its all a matter of volume. I dont want to be a human spam filter and spend every minute of my day checking for spam. Akismet works okay for me but lets through couple of spam frequently (especially the ones without links). And I hate captchas, I won’t put one on my blog. So I wrote a plugin to block comment spam without resorting to captchas called WP Captcha-Free (Sorry for the shameless plug, I hope you don’t take this as comment spam ;) ). It uses a combination of time based hash and ajax to block spam (or atleast ensure the commenter was human). I use it myself on both my blogs and now get almost zero spam from an earlier 40+ per day. This doesn’t replace Akismet but does complement it very well. You can check it out at http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/

If you do, let me know what you think!

]]> By: SlightlyShadySEO http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197281 SlightlyShadySEO Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:08:03 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197281 One issue with keeping a spammed domain list like the PHDSL...you say "blacklist" I say "backlink scraping list" Although to be fair, it's not hard to find spamvertised domains without it for a quick backlink scrape. One issue with keeping a spammed domain list like the PHDSL…you say “blacklist” I say “backlink scraping list”
Although to be fair, it’s not hard to find spamvertised domains without it for a quick backlink scrape.

]]> By: Dev @ seo blog site http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197280 Dev @ seo blog site Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:07:16 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197280 Hello Andy sorry abt my looooooong anchor, ill keep it short next time :) Hello Andy sorry abt my looooooong anchor, ill keep it short next time :)

]]> By: Andy Beard http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197098 Andy Beard Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:15:24 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197098 David sorry I didn't get back to this sooner - I suppose performance difference depends on how you work and how many blogs you own. I find using SK more efficient, and safer David sorry I didn’t get back to this sooner – I suppose performance difference depends on how you work and how many blogs you own.

I find using SK more efficient, and safer

]]> By: Drew Stauffer http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197028 Drew Stauffer Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:36:28 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197028 I gotcha, good explanation. I've been thinking about this a lot lately mainly for my own site not client sites. But the last thing I want is to look like an ass on a blog that I frequent a lot. So it sounds like your saying as long as I do it for my own site and no obvious keyword abuse than it's not too frowned upon. I gotcha, good explanation. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately mainly for my own site not client sites. But the last thing I want is to look like an ass on a blog that I frequent a lot.

So it sounds like your saying as long as I do it for my own site and no obvious keyword abuse than it’s not too frowned upon.

]]> By: Andy Beard http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197015 Andy Beard Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:17:45 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-197015 It is partially covered in my comment policy. I basically want all links to be to good sites where I can find out something about a person, thus they can then use anchor text. If someone from Google left a comment here, and linked through to a Google property, I would expect them to use their name rather than "search engine" Anywhere in between is a judgement call. As an example I know Shawn from Hobo Web has other people he works with, but effectively he is the only one out and about commenting. I have told him that he can abuse anchor text all he likes to his own sites. If he started leaving anchor text links to client sites I would delete them, it wouldn't be fair. Dev's comment above I allowed, I could reply to his comment as Dev and not worry. Probably a few too many keywords, but the site was legit. There are a few family business owners who are regulars, and leave keywords as anchor text, I am fine with that as I checked their company profile. The same is true for SEOs, Realtors etc, who have a personal site. I would prefer people to use anchor text that is relevant to them, as long as I can relate to the person leaving the comment. That being said if someone has a 12 person firm and leaves a comment with anchor text, and I visit the link and can't work out who left the comment, I am going to call them out on it and probably delete the link. I have upset people over it as well I am also good at spotting junk sites - I will delete the links even if a name is used that appears on the other site. It is partially covered in my comment policy.

I basically want all links to be to good sites where I can find out something about a person, thus they can then use anchor text.

If someone from Google left a comment here, and linked through to a Google property, I would expect them to use their name rather than “search engine”

Anywhere in between is a judgement call. As an example I know Shawn from Hobo Web has other people he works with, but effectively he is the only one out and about commenting. I have told him that he can abuse anchor text all he likes to his own sites.
If he started leaving anchor text links to client sites I would delete them, it wouldn’t be fair.

Dev’s comment above I allowed, I could reply to his comment as Dev and not worry. Probably a few too many keywords, but the site was legit.

There are a few family business owners who are regulars, and leave keywords as anchor text, I am fine with that as I checked their company profile.

The same is true for SEOs, Realtors etc, who have a personal site.

I would prefer people to use anchor text that is relevant to them, as long as I can relate to the person leaving the comment.

That being said if someone has a 12 person firm and leaves a comment with anchor text, and I visit the link and can’t work out who left the comment, I am going to call them out on it and probably delete the link.
I have upset people over it as well

I am also good at spotting junk sites – I will delete the links even if a name is used that appears on the other site.

]]> By: Drew Stauffer http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-196959 Drew Stauffer Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:31:14 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-196959 A little off topic and please point me to another post if you've already covered something like this but... How do you feel about people using keywords for their name in comments rather than their own name? It seems ok when you see one or two comments like that, but there are a lot of blogs I go to where ALL the comments are like that and I wonder what it's going to do for blog comments in the future. Any thoughts? A little off topic and please point me to another post if you’ve already covered something like this but…

How do you feel about people using keywords for their name in comments rather than their own name?

It seems ok when you see one or two comments like that, but there are a lot of blogs I go to where ALL the comments are like that and I wonder what it’s going to do for blog comments in the future.

Any thoughts?

]]> By: Dev @ Internet marketing seo blog site http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-193859 Dev @ Internet marketing seo blog site Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:27:44 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-193859 Well up until now i never been to a google group and don't even know how they look like :D, But i would like to know from you, Does google groups has No-Follow disabled ? Is it really worth posting on google groups ..? Interms of back links ? hmmmm Well up until now i never been to a google group and don’t even know how they look like :D, But i would like to know from you, Does google groups has No-Follow disabled ? Is it really worth posting on google groups ..? Interms of back links ? hmmmm

]]> By: geld lenen http://andybeard.eu/1199/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-193096 geld lenen Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:26:38 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2008/02/google-groups-comment-spam.html#comment-193096 I tried the honey pot project with several well known spam domains. But they were "clean" strange enough... At my old blog I had several Google Redirect pages, starting with google.com and then the spam domain. Tough to track but also simply banned google.com at the end. I tried the honey pot project with several well known spam domains. But they were “clean” strange enough…

At my old blog I had several Google Redirect pages, starting with google.com and then the spam domain. Tough to track but also simply banned google.com at the end.

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