Spam seems to be everywhere. It’s in your email, blogs, social networks and even text messages. Spammers are getting creative in terms of getting around spam blockers, captchas and even fooling unsuspecting bloggers. A typical comment such as “Great post” or “Great article” or “I’m a little confused about what you wrote” or “Can you explain what you meant by this” may not seem harmful, but I can usually smell a comment spam a 100 miles away because of the author’s link or website is a dead giveaway. The main reason comment spammers leave comments on blogs is to promote their own businesses, blogs, sites, etc by means of a link back. Spammers are merely trying to improve their search rankings. So, one of the things I have been doing to fight this type of comment spam is to delink the spammer’s link. Comments may seem legit and even make sense, but the commenter’s link is disabled. I use the WP Ajax Edit Comments WordPress Plugin to delink comments. It’s a manual process, but it’s very effective.
ok, let me ask you: what’s with those mails claiming to give you zillions of dollars from african countries and stuff like that? or the bank directors that keep dying and suddenly they leave you the money? they are bulls*it, alright, but what’s the catch, or the purpose? sometimes they have no link at all, just asking for a reply. i was always curious what’s behind them actually.
If it sounds to be good to be true, it probably is.
I just thought of this tonight. De-linking spammers is like going to a vet to spay your dog or cat. Yea, neutered. Spammers want links. De-linking removes it.