Spam Comments
Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by admin in SEO
Ok, I give. Shutting down comment function because I am sick of moderating. I get so much link spam, it’s filling the cupboard Mother Hubbard.
It’s the nature of the beast to get the spam, and I get around 100 comments per post. Now that may not sound like a lot but it’s basically 100 minutes (scan comment, approve/deny, etc) that I could have devoted elsewhere.
I approve few comments and pretty much assume the ones I DO approve are spam too, just better spelled and more fawning. Do I believe in comments on corporate sites? In theory yes, because two-way communication is trust building. However at a certain point when the time expended on moderating far outweighs any additional trust built, you have to pull the plug.
Can comments be done without moderating, you ask?
It depends on the community you’re trying to build, but I’m not a believer in unmoderated posting unless your topic is really time sensitive. If you’re running multiple sites that you’re trying to rank it can get really onerous administering comments. There are really only two choices.
1) you can either let your posts get junked up with spam by not moderating and later have to go in and do housecleaning or
2) you can moderate on the fly.
I think they are probably about equally costly in terms of time
Why should you moderate your comments? Well, first of all, you don’t want hatred spam about your company going up unchecked. And second, if you allow every comment that comes in, then you’re creating a junky link ratio within your site that is potentially going to be damaging to your own rankings. Too much outbound linkage to bad neighborhoods is not favored by G and you’ll be seen as spammy yourself.
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