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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Blog Comment Spam

Within minutes of my last post, I already had 2 comment spams. You now have to do the word verification thing to post comments. Take that stupid computers with poor character recognition!

5 Comments:

Sarah said...

MT has much better spam fighting methods. It is really good at recognizing spam. It deletes it (or makes it unvisible until I moderate the comment) and rebuilds my blog in the background. Amazing.

Yeah, I blame this all on google. People are so desperate to increase their page ranks - they need every link they can get!

Vince said...

Well, this word verification thing is basically fool-proof and isn't too much of an inconvenience.

Speaking about page rank, you should speak for yourself, you're totally into pushing your links everywhere you can :p, but hey, so am I :)

Anonymous said...

Google's March 2005 patent reveals us that links from comments don't play a single role in Google's PR computation. PR has no effect on you SERPS anyway, I don't understand why people are absesed with the little green line. It's SEO that counts...

Vince said...

Unfortunately, it still doesn't stop people from spamming blogs. That's partly why I was apprehensive about your first post.

Sarah said...

i know it hardly affects pr. but i think it used to. enough people think it still does.

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