OMG! How many?

[juststeven]

So today I went to my blog's dashboard and found in one day askimet had stopped 2,187 spam messages!

 

[David]

That's expected for your blog though (I assume your webmaster blog). If you are posting Private Label Rights articles, then spam bots will automatically search for content like such and do their best to pass any spam filters.

 

[juststeven]

Hmm yes get's annoying having to look through it all for legit comments. Should I accept messages like: I was looking in yahoo for something else, but I have to say your blog is really good? When it's clearly an auto post but they don't give a link only in the link form.

 

[David]

Not really. If you let them through, Akismet may think you are allowing comments from that spam IP so they will pass through every future comment from that IP, even if they are spam.

 

[JayJACKEL!]

+1 for David there.

Don't allow them unless you change the IP slightly.

 

[juststeven]

Hmm comments are set to approval anyway. Well I might delete them all.
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Deleted em all.

 

[AnAccount]

That's expected for your blog though (I assume your webmaster blog). If you are posting Private Label Rights articles, then spam bots will automatically search for content like such and do their best to pass any spam filters.

So does it really depend on what your blog is about, then? Like the sort of content you post on it? I don't own a blog, but that's an interesting theory right there.

 

[David]

That's expected for your blog though (I assume your webmaster blog). If you are posting Private Label Rights articles, then spam bots will automatically search for content like such and do their best to pass any spam filters.

So does it really depend on what your blog is about, then? Like the sort of content you post on it? I don't own a blog, but that's an interesting theory right there.

If your blog is posting up PLR articles, it can be seen a "splog". Splogs' aims are to rank higher with keywords and contents which are common amongst the field. Effectively, spammers (automated bots) look for these articles to spam at because that content is easy to find. If you take a small bit of Steven's post and search it, you will find many other blogs of the thing, which are really just looking for ways to rank higher. Even if Steven's purpose isn't to rank higher, bots don't know that, so they are triggered into spamming that site so their link can rank high as well.

There are plenty of bots for different content. They all try to achieve the common goal of gaining links to rank their site higher, or to damage your site. There are just some content which raises a flag for bots and they will come down heavy.

 

[AnAccount]

That's expected for your blog though (I assume your webmaster blog). If you are posting Private Label Rights articles, then spam bots will automatically search for content like such and do their best to pass any spam filters.

So does it really depend on what your blog is about, then? Like the sort of content you post on it? I don't own a blog, but that's an interesting theory right there.

If your blog is posting up PLR articles, it can be seen a "splog". Splogs' aims are to rank higher with keywords and contents which are common amongst the field. Effectively, spammers (automated bots) look for these articles to spam at because that content is easy to find. If you take a small bit of Steven's post and search it, you will find many other blogs of the thing, which are really just looking for ways to rank higher. Even if Steven's purpose isn't to rank higher, bots don't know that, so they are triggered into spamming that site so their link can rank high as well.

There are plenty of bots for different content. They all try to achieve the common goal of gaining links to rank their site higher, or to damage your site. There are just some content which raises a flag for bots and they will come down heavy.

That's kind of how it works with forums as well, isn't it? Kind of the same concept? Especially with all the Viagra ads and junk like that.