I received a comment or two many weeks ago that says something like this: “Please don’t delete spam. The money gained will be used to feed the children in Africa.” Oh, really? Spamming for a good cause? Why don’t they just buy Spam and feed the hungry?
There could be money in spamming because there are people who do it. And the money flowing to the spammers could be larger than we’ve imagined. The other day, this site received almost 30 spam comments, when I normally get around a dozen. Where did they come from? What is their purpose of doing so? If they’re from somewhere, how much are they paid for spamming? Can we join? (oops, just kidding on the last one)
Or are they into SEO too? Using the spam links to push their websites up in SERP. This only signal one thing for me: Stop Spam ASAP by installing a plug-in. Now, where’s the plug-in I downloaded?
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really? there is money in spam! *LOL* geez, the only spam i like is the spam canned goods you pictured there. interesting post ceblogger.
there is this thing called, the economics of spam. and it wont go away easily, snow.
I’m getting a lot of porno and medicine-advertisement spams lately, and my site isn’t even near porno or medical at all. These spammers are really very good at searching out sites to spam and I’m averaging about 20 a day. My anti-spam plug-in does not seem to work at all too.
Why resort to spamming, I ask? They could have nicely asked us to for an advertising space and work something out with us, right?
nice info cyril, thanks for the additional insights.
We hate spam, akismet is enough ?
dudi, i don’t think akistmet is enough. i didn’t activate mine, as it works just like my current manual moderation.
@ceblogger – just want to add something about my akismet…you know…my akisment has an interesting moderation mode coz’ it blocks the pingbacks!
snow, i had my troubles with akismet. legit comments are sometimes marked as spam. i installed the math anti-spam for both of my blogs.
Hello..how do I know if a website or blog is banned from Google?