There has been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere recently about a new company called Buy Blog Comments. (I won't link to them here, however, I did a complete write up called Buy Blog Comments - The Changing Face of Comment Spam.)
From the company website:
Did you catch that? They actually keep a database of blogs who don't use the nofollow tag on their comments (I'm fairly certain mine is included on the list and yours may be, too if you don't use nofollow), and they have a staff of 6 people who go around "reading" blogs and commenting just to gain the links.
It's basically human submitted comment spam and it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. They say they send out quality comments, but frankly, based on what I've seen so far, most of them will be manually marked as spam by the blog owner anyway.
If you're a blog owner, please make sure to keep an eye out for legit comments (i.e. ones that pass your spam filters and Akismet) that are really spam in sheep's clothing. Take a moment to actually visit the site linked in the URL field to make sure it's quality, and if the <strike>spammer</strike> commenter uses nothing but anchor text in the name field, scrutinize that comment even more.
Just a head's up.
~ Teli
From the company website:
BuyBlogComments.Com is the first of its kind. Finally you can purchase quality blog comments without the stress of finding someone to write the comments, or buying some high priced automated program. We specialize in selling blog comments for blackhatters who are looking for good quality backlinks. We have three different types of packages, you can either buy 100 blog comments, 500 blog comments, or 1000 blog comments at a time.
Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it won't get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines.
Did you catch that? They actually keep a database of blogs who don't use the nofollow tag on their comments (I'm fairly certain mine is included on the list and yours may be, too if you don't use nofollow), and they have a staff of 6 people who go around "reading" blogs and commenting just to gain the links.
It's basically human submitted comment spam and it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. They say they send out quality comments, but frankly, based on what I've seen so far, most of them will be manually marked as spam by the blog owner anyway.
If you're a blog owner, please make sure to keep an eye out for legit comments (i.e. ones that pass your spam filters and Akismet) that are really spam in sheep's clothing. Take a moment to actually visit the site linked in the URL field to make sure it's quality, and if the <strike>spammer</strike> commenter uses nothing but anchor text in the name field, scrutinize that comment even more.
Just a head's up.
~ Teli
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