Archive for November, 2011

Spam…One annoyance to running your own blog.  I recently enabled Akismet to cut back on the amount of spam I receive.  I was getting on average about 5-10 bogus comments to approve each week.  Most of them had major typographical errors or were intelligible.

“How does it work?

Each time a new comment, trackback, or pingback is added to your site it’s submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down. As a result, you don’t have to waste your time sorting through and deleting spammy comments from your blog.”

A lot of these spammers are using blackhat SEO techniques in order to improve their rankings on the search engines.  Sounds to me like a lot of it is automated and very little human interaction is involved.  I do wonder what the return of investment is in writing a script that just spams blogs.