Part of the way I get back links is I use tools and search engines to find dofollow blogs related to my niche…and who doesn’t right? Well… I take the time, read the article, read through the comments and leave a comment that either provides value or ask a question if I genuinely have a question. Then I add the blog’s feed to my public Google feed and come back to the blog on occasion to read more posts and comment.

One other thing I do which is somewhat selfish and somewhat helpful is Social Bookmark the post that I commented on. Not only that, I mention in the comment that I Social Bookmarked it…hoping to entice the blog owner to accept the comment if he might not have normally. I’ve seen a lot of spammers use that trick now so I’ve since stopped. They say something like “Great post, I added to Stumble.” Yeah, sure ya did!

Of course, the main selfish reason to Social Bookmark the post is to give it more luv, which may in turn give more luv to your dofollow link that sits on that page (in the comments). As pointed out on CowTV (JohnCow.com) it’s more beneficial to do that when someone links to your from their post…but your link in the comments deserves some luv too.

The thing that made me decide to write this post is because of some comments that I seen in my diet blog a minute ago. The comment spammers are playing on the fact that most bloggers have a big ego and if they get put down they will fight back. So, they suspect that comments like: “I find your blog boring, I don’t think you are telling the truth.”, “Your information is confusing, may be you need more information.”, “I’m pretty sure some people will not like it.” might have a better chance of being approved. All of these comments were from the same douche within minutes of eachother. He changed the URL/comment and that’s it…kept his name the same! haha So it seems that enough people reported him to the Mr. Akismet and the douche is now dropped right in Akismet. He hasn’t got to the point where he is auto-purged yet…maybe that’s the next step…Maybe if enough people declare it as not spam he won’t be flagged automatically…so slow your roll buddy!

Anyway…that’s it…I just found it funny some of the tricks that comment spammers use….Albeit (is that a word? it looks weird) somewhat clever, sometimes they are done in a really stupid way.

I’ve turned off DoFollow in the comments, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv…we’ll see how many regualr commentators still comment…I don’t suspect it’ll drop too much though because I do dedicate a post with some DoFollow luv to my regular readers..and the blogs I read…

Tell me some of the crap you’ve seen try to slide by as regular comments that were apparent spam.

More info: Comment Spammers Think They Are Clever