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OJR on “comment spam”

Online Journalism Review’s Mark Glaser has penned a column dealing with comment spam.  “Basically, spammers have been using blogs to help boost their standings in Google searches by posting massive numbers of comments that include links to their pornography sites, scams and get-rich-quick sites. If your site is linked by a top-ranked site or blog, then Google will often raise your site’s ranking—at least that’s the thinking of spammers.”

Comment spammers have been hitting top-rated blogs, leading several to simply turn off comments. (Glaser quotes blogging godfather Dave Winer, who says comments aren’t critical to blogs anyway.) Other approaches to dealing with this new abuse by spammers are covered in the piece.

12/22/04 | 0 Comments | OJR on “comment spam”

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