News and views from the "Smart" spam
Well, not exactly smart. What I mean by smart, is that a human being is spending human brain time creating it, rather than a spambot that only spends machine time spewing mindlessly. Lately, this blog seems to be attracting comments that are relevant to the post, but come from people I don't know and contain embedded links to sites that sell stuff. I delete those comments faster than you can say "spam." But for a nanosecond, I'd like to get into the heads of people who spend time doing this. I can't imagine the mindset.
This is not to say that I don't want comments from unknown persons. On the contrary - comments from far-flung places are generally very cool and remind me that my audience is broader than I think it is. One of my favorite examples of this is a two-year-old post on the novel Kiss the Dust, which is told from the point of view of a Kurdish girl. Apparently, there are folks who regularly search the Web for references to all things Kurdish. Lately, though, another two-year-old post has been drawing a lot of attention. In fact, on the school's website statistics for May, this post has gotten more visits than any other page, except for the school's main page. 7,457 as of today. I have to say that I don't get it. Surely there are better places on the Web to find information about this topic?
This is not to say that I don't want comments from unknown persons. On the contrary - comments from far-flung places are generally very cool and remind me that my audience is broader than I think it is. One of my favorite examples of this is a two-year-old post on the novel Kiss the Dust, which is told from the point of view of a Kurdish girl. Apparently, there are folks who regularly search the Web for references to all things Kurdish. Lately, though, another two-year-old post has been drawing a lot of attention. In fact, on the school's website statistics for May, this post has gotten more visits than any other page, except for the school's main page. 7,457 as of today. I have to say that I don't get it. Surely there are better places on the Web to find information about this topic?
posted by franceylibrarian at 10:59 AM
4 Comments:
What your experiencing is SEO optimization techniques. Sites hosted on edu domains are worth more in terms of pagerank than from .com domains. In other words, a link from your site (.edu) is trusted as a "more credible" source to google than from a .com domain. This means that it will rank the linked sites higher in search rankings. (i've been research SPAM lately--that's how i found your post)
I would have to second "anonymous" posted comment.
As a blog admin to myself, I have to educate myself how to differentiate between "spammer" and "real user". As you mentioned above, common pattern from spammer is using "fake/splash" url page or simply if you visit their page, you would see clearly high irrelevancy page content.
Please do not get frustrated to all search engine optimizer because not all of us do that. The spammers are more likely we called as "SEO Black Hat Group". That's the one you do not want to have anything between your websites and theirs. The good group is known as "SEO White Hat Group".
There is "win-win" situation where you allow external user to posted a comment and at the same time they refer your page article somewhere from their page. As long as both are showing relevancy of each content. That's just a little part of SEO :).
According to me the main reason behind your blog drawing comments from irrelevant site is the difficulty on part of search engine optimizers in finding theme related blogs for comment posting in web.
I must say that by deleting comment links to sites only selling stuff on your blog, you are just doing the right thing required to keep it spam free and who knows this strategy may bring an increased the number of visits to it.
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