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There is a new company - BuyBlogComments.com - that will actually make spam comments on your behalf to blogs. This is just a bad idea no matter how you look at it. Buyer beware of buying such comments for these reasons.

Comments that look either generic or generated might be past the spam filter of a website but not the blogger. Most bloggers keep a check on their comments as they should. If something looks spammy, then most likely they will mark it as spam or just delete it altogether.

While most blogging platforms use the nofollow tag in comments, some plugins or workarounds have been developed for bloggers to turn off the nofollow. What this means is that those comment links now pass a “vote” to Google for that website  when Google updates the PageRank. A lot of bloggers have been proudly displaying their choice to turn off the nofollow tag. Sadly, it hasn’t taken long for someone to decide to exploit this.

BuyBlogComments.com promises to place comments on these blogs that have disabled the nofollow tag. The problem is that these bloggers really care about their comments and the people who comment. So they are extremely diligent when it comes to moderating comments. Let a batch of spam-like comments start hitting all of these blogs, and bloggers will get the word out. They can possibly delete the comments or even blacklist the IP of the commentor.

If you want links from comments, take the time and comment yourself. You will gain the “vote” from the link. You might also gain readership if your comments are well thought out. People will click your website to want to read more of your work.

Lynn Little wrote this on July 11th, 2007 and filed it under Link Building |