Andrea Posted April 30, 2010 Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 A couple or so months ago, I redesigned my webdesign site via Wordpress and added a few blog posts (about 4 or so so far), and I keep getting (some) comments with URLs. If the content of the posts was realistic, I wouldn't even mind, but if I hear - after FOUR posts - stuff like: "How do you come up with those great ideas - I'll bookmark you" - and then a URL to THEIR (probably fabulous, I'm sure) site, I feel so used. The question is - of course those posters are working on creating links to their site - is there any way we can both win by me accepting the comments, or is it a clear SPAM attempt. I don't want to mark them all as spam, and therewith bite my nose to spite my face... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krillz Posted April 30, 2010 Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 add a nofollow to all links in the comments section of your blog. That way they spider crawling your site won't leave your site anytime they stumble on them as you just declared them as links with no value to you. Or you could implement a system that requires them to post let say 10-20 comments before links are rendered as links in the comments. But I suppose you have one of them spambusters installed on you blog, you might be able to add the links they are posting as they pretty much are the same to the banlist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted April 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 Nothing with a URL gets published without my approval. In the end so - does the posting of some unrelated link hurt my site in any way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie Posted May 1, 2010 Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 I don't know about whether it will hurt your site or not, but I am curious to know whether you're using the Akismet plugin. It will zap spam comments in a hurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krillz Posted May 1, 2010 Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 Nothing with a URL gets published without my approval. In the end so - does the posting of some unrelated link hurt my site in any way? Well within SEO there is something called bad links, that is if you are linking to pages that google have labeled as spam or payed links. So yes they can hurt you as their bad label will spill over at your site for supporting these sites by linking to them. You could just click and quickly evaluate the site that is linked to, any spam related like pornography, drugs and such is a no brainer. Then you got the links that link to these feed blogs that just post chunks of peoples articles then sends a pingback to get a link, you will see a lot of articles and when you press read more you are taken to another blog. You could just apply the nofollow rule to anything shade that you directly can't make out if it's spam or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted May 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 I don't know about whether it will hurt your site or not, but I am curious to know whether you're using the Akismet plugin. It will zap spam comments in a hurry. I am now It's not that I got a lot of those comments, a couple a week or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted May 1, 2010 Report Share Posted May 1, 2010 Akismet is pretty well known and definitely recommended by those who have a lot of Wordpress experience, so it should help with the spam issue. Let us know if things improve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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