Maryam and I are at the Northern Voice conference.
Comment Spam Is Getting Smarter
Here are actual comment spams I received on Sunday:
Cash for Comment Blogging
J.Ryan writes an interesting post at guerrilla news network on a strategy USWeb.com is using to promote clients using blogs. In short they are paying bloggers $5 to write nice things about their clients – even suggesting what such posts might include in them.
Fixing Comment Spam with Stars
Jason Calacanis posted a couple of days ago on Weblogs Inc’s new Comment Spam Fix – The Star System – which allows bloggers to award commenters ‘stars’ for productive comments.
Plain Speaking Blog Comment Policy
Here’s a plain-speaking description of a blog commenting policy that no one could possibly misunderstand …
Killing Blog Comment Spam
Steve Rubel posted today about a technique Google’s supposedly testing out that will remove the incentive for comment spammers.
Google Tag To Help Prevent Comment Spam
Lots of comment in the blogosphere overnight about the new anti-spam comment tag that Google announced yesterday.
Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam
On the surface, when Dave Winer put up a placeholder post this weekend on the Bloggercon site …
There Must Be a Better Way To Deal With Comment Spam
During the past week, I’ve had a trickle of comment spam on my blog. Nothing that I’m overly concerned with (not yet, anyway) …
Comment Spammers Have Blogs
Would you be surprised to know that some people who work in the search engine industry know who is responsible for a lot of comment spam … I met some of them recently.