A couple of days ago, my buddy Hugo wrote about the comments spam on blog and how this works from a spammer perspective. Just days after this post, my inbox is overflowing with comments full with spammy links, trying to sell pills for any kind of disease. Even if you have no-follow tags on any link dropped in the comments, and Akismet is trying to prevent spammers writing comments on your blog, there are still automated comments placed left and right. Below you see 4 comments which were placed within the time-span of just 2 hours!
And these comments are not pretty, as you can see from the screenshot below. (click on the image for a larger picture)
Still, it's pretty easy to delete all these comments through the WordPress Admin panel.
And once again, a social media scam is breaking out. I now get messages from Twitter profiles that only include a short URL with a sexy looking girl as a profile picture.
I’m not going to click on the link, as I suspect it will either take me to a Made for Adsense site, or to a site that will install some malware.
With every trending keyword in Google Search Trends comes the Spam. Just check out the following spam in the title, tags and the first paragraph on the following blog:
The title is full with the most popular keywords around Steve McNair:
Steve Mcnair Dead - Michelle Mcnair - Steve Mcnair wife Michelle - Michelle Cartwright - Steve Mcnair - Steve Mcnair Died - Steve Mcnair wife - Steve Mcnair Shot - Steve Dead - Steve Mcnair’s wife Michelle - Steve Mcnair wife Michelle Mcnair - US Mechelle Cartwright
That is something what I call Keyword Spamming!
And then the Tag section:
Who needs 24 different tags for a story. Clearly these tags are intended to increase the keyword density for Steve McNair on the page.
Will this become the new trend in Spamming? Target the trending keywords on Google Trends & Twitter, to get more traffic to some spammy website full with Ads…
