Most bloggers hate to deal with spam. The standard spam plugin feature for comments in wordpress is to add nofollow links to spam. Webdesigntaxi.com uses such a feature, yet there are lots of people who add non-relevant comments to posts regardless. We rarely approve such a comment. We only approve relevant comments and comments that are clearly NOT used just to promote a business. Such comments do not receive any link benefit from us.

I figured we should post this to let would-be spammers know it is a waste of their time here. We ban IP address a large amount of the time. Automated posts from software are also useless. They are always off-topic and offensive most of the time as they contain links to illegal porn. At the very worst we track down said spammers and report them to their ISP’s, and authorities for their country, state, locality, and anyone else relevant.

The age of comment spam is over. It is no longer beneficial and is looked down upon. It is best to use comments wisely and participate in a post subject to drive quality traffic from our readers who want to know more about you because you provided a knowledgable comment. Your comment will be added almost guaranteed as long as your link is clean from viruses and bad content.

Tags: automated software, blogger, bloggers, comment spam, quality traffic, spam, spammers
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