Comments on: How Spam-Friendly is Your Niche?

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:37:41 +0000

Matthew: I’m sorry to hear that. I hope that you’re able to find a way to re-enable comments.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:52:40 +0000

I agree on my blog it actually got so bad I had to stop allowing comments.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:39:58 +0000

Lorelle: I’m not going to ask what you were doing posting something with “horse sex” in the title and pretend I didn’t just read that. I’m sure it was a very good reason but it is too early in the morning for me on that front.

However, I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one that’s seen that. Also, I think that your point about attracting the wrong kind of attention is very valid here.

That’s a great article and I wish I had thought of it in this light, I can see how it would impact this. Of course, this means that the experts get still more scraping so it isn’t all great for them :)

Anyway, thanks for the comment and I look forward to seeing you in Dallas!

Lee: That’s a pretty low number truth be told. Is that just spam getting through or spam total? I’m just curious.

Thank you for replying!

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:38:04 +0000

My blog is about video games and I get about 1 spam a week. However, at one time, I got 12 spam comments and they’re all the same message.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:35:31 +0000

There is no doubt that auto-splogging and spamming bots are using keywords to target blog posts. Let me tell you the story some day of an article I wrote with "horse sex" in the title and content...it's a never ending source for comment spam and traffic, though I'm sure the traffic never sticks around very long. There are no pictures on the blog post. :D This has been going on for years. Yes, while the more incoming links your blog has the greater the number of comment spam, targeted comment spam follows keywords. I wrote about the struggle of posts that attract the "wrong" kind of attention and what to do about them recently. Part of the classification of "wrong" is the high maintenance of such keyword-attractive blog posts. Until I closed comments on that post, I had to clean out 2-25 comment spams a day on it. Too much work for no return.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:28:22 +0000

Jeremy: I’ve actually had a bit of personal experience with that. A while back I wrote a story on “Porn and Piracy” and the item was not only scraped heavily due to the topic, but also subjected to a major linkblog attack. Other posts with similar link counts have not seen a similar spam comment wave.

It could just be my site, but I do think it plays at least a small roll. Not as big as it does with scraping, but a small one. It is still worth noting at least…

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:46:17 +0000

The only thing I disagree with is “Increased Comment Spam”.

I think that has much more to do with how many incoming links your blog has than what your niche is.