This is about the underlying health of the internet.
It is a Plan to Stop Blog Spam
Do you get spam comments on your blog? Would you like to see them come to an end? Are you tired of doing things right and watching others benefit from cheating?
I have an idea. What are your thoughts? Please weigh in at the end.
My favorite to hate are the comments to my art only where some comment that they like the way I write. This is just plain wrong.
Incidentally, if almost anyone followed the directions and only posted a one word comment to UlteriorArt.com I would gladly give a live contextual link. Yep, what the spammers actually want, a link, they could have by just posting a one word comment.
There is something to do but it is entirely up to you.
First let me tell you a story that may help you want to.
My neighborhood is going down hill. Many of my neighbors have lost their passion to keep their yards nice. They no longer fertilize their grass. They do not even clean up the trash that may end up on the street.
The down turn is rather unusual because we live in a bedroom community. Many of the neighbors have lived in their homes for over 20 years.
So, I took it upon myself to clean the trash (usually something dropped by the trash man) in front of my neighbors homes as well as my own home. Doing so, something amazing happened.
The amazing thing, I found money. Not just a dollar. Not just a few dollars. I found a $10 bill, a $20 bill and once several ones all at once. How come nobody else saw them?
The green in the money became invisible in the grass and mud. The other side of the street has no sidewalk. So, where the grass stops the road starts. At times during the year, there is a strip of mud.
More importantly, the reason they were not seen is because the neighbors stopped caring. Since they did not care about the trash, they did not see the money that they probably dropped there.
Oh yea, the money had to be laundered. Literally.
The lesson, it pays to clean up trash. More importantly, it pays to care.
Oh, there were other things of value found too. One package obviously belonged to one of the neighbors so I returned it to them.
What does this have to do with the web and spam comments?
The web is our neighborhood. We can let it go or we can help keep it clean. We can care about how our neighborhood looks. At Assist2web.com you will only find white hat ways to build a website and web traffic.
Cleaning up the spam comments will eventually mean more traffic for you.
With almost 129K new websites coming on line daily in 2009, there is an ever ending stream of competition for your viewers. As new ways to scam the system appear, new rules appear. This number does not even count blogs.
So to put an end to spam comments, there will need to be a new rule.
How do you get a new rule?
This is where taking the initiative to clean up the trash can pay off.
When you get a spam comment to your blog, rather than just clicking the spam button that sends it to the trash, do something else. Clean up the trash.
So, if the spam comment links to an Ezine Article, write a very brief note (repeat: very brief) with the vital info on the comment and who it was from.
The email addresses are probably bogus so there is no need to include it in your note. It might be a good idea not to send them anyway because you agreed to keep the email private, even if it is bogus.
If you should check out the odd website, do a quick check and see if there is real contact info, if there is a privacy policy and so forth. If in any way it violates the Google Terms of Service, let Google know.
To do this, simply click on the word Google in the lower right hand corner of the Google Ad. This will take you to the Google page. Near the bottom is a place where you can post your complaint or concerns.
Remember, many site owners are being taken by this new spam scam. The only way to stop it, start cleaning up the trash.
Oh yea, it is already working.
As of this posting, some of the spam comments links were dead. The hosts had suspended the spammers accounts.
Let me know what you think.