I’ve received an enormous amount of spam comments on my blog – over 740,000 spam comments have been caught thanks to Akismet – blog comment spam was a hot topic at the October Perth WordPress Meetup. I remember the days when blogs were spam free, roaming the internet without a care in the world, and you didn’t have to be concerned if a comment was real or spam. Over the last few years there has been an influx of what I like to call complimentary spam comments. To the untrained eye these comments seem to look and act like real comments, however, they are complimenting the author to try and secure comment moderation approval. The spam filled website link or fake email address is normally a dead giveaway.
“I love this site/post/opinion, you’re awesome/great/informative!”
I know a few bloggers who approve such comments and remove offending website address. A comments is a comment, right?
A few months ago I received a spam comment that caught my eye, it’s the holy grail of spam comments…
Kitta.net 