http://www.webia.info/articles/techniques/avoid-spammers-on-your-blog/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:09:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.webia.info/articles/techniques/avoid-spammers-on-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-737 Avoid spammers on your blog (2) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:55:27 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=224#comment-737 [...] previous spam avoiding post described a nice technique to hide URL input fields from spammer's eyes. It has received [...] http://www.webia.info/articles/techniques/avoid-spammers-on-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-566 admin Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:57:48 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=224#comment-566 Hey Dustin, Thanks for your comment! You do have a point. You could consider spam many of those messages and soon end up with nobody commenting. However, you could take out of the equation comments that are longer than lets say, 25 characters. 10 seconds should be enough for a decent comment. During that time you could write something that long. So if you don't, it may be considered an attempt of spamming, or link building. The exact opposite of this would be asking people to comment and post their name and a short message so that they win a book or something. I think that awarding a comment that provides valuable information with regard to its article/post is way better. Not only it will make the winner happy, but he/she will try to post even better comments in the future.
Thanks for your comment!

You do have a point. You could consider spam many of those messages and soon end up with nobody commenting. However, you could take out of the equation comments that are longer than lets say, 25 characters.

10 seconds should be enough for a decent comment. During that time you could write something that long. So if you don’t, it may be considered an attempt of spamming, or link building.

The exact opposite of this would be asking people to comment and post their name and a short message so that they win a book or something.

I think that awarding a comment that provides valuable information with regard to its article/post is way better. Not only it will make the winner happy, but he/she will try to post even better comments in the future.]]> http://www.webia.info/articles/techniques/avoid-spammers-on-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Dustin Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:21:43 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=224#comment-421 That website area in comment forms is there for a reason, might as well use it! Most people actually scan through blog posts or articles with a lot of comments and find new blogs to read. If I see a comment I agree with, and the poster seems interesting, I would enjoy clicking their name and being taken to their website. It's far from spam of any sort. Although, you do have something here. Comments simply saying things like "great article, i liked it." I seem to be a little more edgy on. But all in all, who cares. The comment area is there to simulate discussion between the poster and readers (and sometimes readers with other readers). You could easily catalog such comments as spam, but watch yourself. Soon, you may end up with no comments at all and when that happens, you'll be back to getting no input from readers.
The comment area is there to simulate discussion between the poster and readers (and sometimes readers with other readers). You could easily catalog such comments as spam, but watch yourself. Soon, you may end up with no comments at all and when that happens, you’ll be back to getting no input from readers.]]>