Comments on: Weeding Out Bogus Blog Comments

By: Frank C

Frank C — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:35:42 +0000

I like to have fun with the flattery comments, most of which are generated by automated blog commenting software. I’ll pull their link from the comment and edit in a few extra things on the first go round. They rarely make a second appearance since somebody will have Akismeted them by then.

I do allow anchored keyword comments since, when paired with the strict requirement that the comment has to be on topic and link to a decent site, it gives me a lot of free content. I even find my blog ranking for some of the terms that visitors left keywords for, one example being a particular brand of sunglasses.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:28:58 +0000

Hi Ian,

I just checked out the article you mentioned and dugg it. Thanks for the heads up. I’ve been putting off a few precautionary measures, but now I’m putting them on the top of my to do list.

As far as the RSS feed, I get your drift ;D.

I hope you’ll enjoy my future posts.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:04:11 +0000

I think this a good post and makes me feel more cautious about the blog I am starting. I have just read another post called “Blogs a growing target for site hackers” which makes me worried, especially as Wordpress user. Search for it on Digg, I have also Dugg this post for you which I found on Digg.

Personally I always include an unobtrusive link to my website, such as with this comment, which I think is reasonable and I know this is a common practice encouraged by blog developers, like Wordpress, and commenting systems. That’s why the website field is in the comment form so that we can share.

Not sure if I should subscribe to your RSS though, I want to but there is so much to do already, you know what I mean?! I’ll give it a go.