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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:40:03 +0000

Kiran: YES. That’s why it is important to report and stop feed scrapers and splogs, even if they are using your content “legally” within accepted norms. Google doesn’t want them. Bloggers don’t want them. Google is punishing those who do them, as best they can, but we need to help report them so Google can deal with them. They are hurting everyone, not just your page ranking.

By: kiran

kiran — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:59:48 +0000

I delete all of them, are these trackback links affecting my site ranking?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:26:15 +0000

Not true. Who links to you as well as who you link to impacts your page rank. Spammers and splogs get page rank credit in the complicated method Google uses to determine page rank by linking to criteria as well as being linked to.

By: Darmok

Darmok — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:43:45 +0000

Wait, that doesn’t make sense to me. Yes, comment spam is bad. But if Akismet catches it and it never appears on your weblog, how do you feel it could benefit the spammer? Google’s PageRank is determined by sites that link to your site, not which sites you link to. Spammers (and everyone else) may link to whatever sites they want; just linking to a prominent site won’t increase one’s PageRank.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:03:23 +0000

It is not impossible. I get thousands of comment spams a day and very few ever get through Akismet, the comment spam fighting tool WordPress.com blogs use. It is not only possible, I do it every day. Akismet gets the majority of the comment spams, so I check what I can to make sure no good comments get through, and then let it do its job. I concentrate on the good comments.

By: Ainuddin Mohamad

Ainuddin Mohamad — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:55:09 +0000

I’m getting about 100 comment spams per day and no longer have the energy to delete them. I strongly believe that it is almost impossible to prevent vigra pushers from making a mess of my blogs.

By: milo

milo — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:11:23 +0000

Rubel wrote about the problem too:
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/01/googles_blogger.html