Posted by admin in As I log into the Wordpress admin dashboard for GeekySpeaky, I can’t help but notice all of the incoming links, most of which look like this:
- Do Follow Blogs
- Giant List of Do Follow Blogs
- Do Follow Blogs With PR
- and so on and so forth
Clicking on any one of these links will lead you to a post that links to this blog and all of the other do follow blogs and gives instructions on how to leave a comment for link juice.
Most people reading that crap are SO missing the point of this even being a do follow blog, as evidenced by the comments I get here daily. I can easily separate out the spammers from the legit bloggers, because the spammers are the ones with keywords for names. The spammers who use a real name have spammy links.
My policy here has always been to mark people who use keywords in the name field as spam, but what to do about those people who use a name and leave a great comment…but I suspect that they’re only here to benefit from my link juice? That’s where an AMAZING WP plugin called Delink Comment Author comes in handy. Once you install the plugin, you can remove the spammy link someone left with just a click while perusing your moderation queue. Leave the great comment, remove the spammy link! (I’d been doing this manually up until I discovered this plugin!)
I’ve been using the plugin on Simple Kind of Life for over a month now, and it’s made moderating comments so much easier. I can remain a do follow blog and offer link juice to legit people, and I can easily weed out the people who are here to abuse my do follow plugin!
One thing I wonder about this plugin …
If your WP blog is set up to moderate the 1st comment from new users, will this then allow the next spammy link from that person to come through automatically when they comment again?
It seems to, but I rarely get the spammers back to leave a 2nd comment. If they do, I delink it again.
Nice plugin, and it is such a good way of allowing those comments that do use keywords as titles until maybe they realize names are so much better..
comment disqus is great commenter plugin
I want the link juice, but I would still like to have an informed comment. I am testing do follow blogs and informed commenting as a method to create a little PR, but I don’t feel like it is spam.
What would you consider a spam site? Mine?
thanks
Very good tool to have
I from russia, excuse me for grammatics. I with you completely agree that it is necessary to tighten selection of the commentaries
Just use nofollow and avoid all the headache from spammers. Either that, or check where the incoming links are coming from. If you have your URL on other blogs that are advertising you as a nofollow blog, then just pop them an email and ask them to remove your URL form the listing.
dr2v6e hi! how you doin?
I’ll have to check that one out because I too have had terrible spam problems. I had keyword luv installed but is was a MAGNET for spammers…but at the same time I hate to get rid of it because it does reward commenters with a relevant keyword link instead of their name. (And people can have real names, instead of keyword names!)
What’s really funny is because I have several blogs, a lot of these guys go around writing seemingly relevant comments but then I see them repeated over and over again…
Plus too I always think its best to connect with bloggers and build relationships with them by reading/commenting often. You don’t get that with a spam comment!
Nice post and thanks for sharing…