Identifying Spam Comments

Blog and website owners are responsible for moderating comments. The comments are left by attentive and interested readers and the content can be useful feedback for the content of any site. However, from time to time comments are from spam bots, instead of readers. Spam detection is useful information for each owner of the blog I moderate comments.

There may be times when spam is difficult to identify. This article describes several ways you can identify spam in your blog comments. Not all spam comments come with links. Some spam bots are designed to add comments to sites and blogs are just phishing.

Comment spam can be blocked for you with software you can easily find on the internet. However, spam can make it past software installed for blocking it. Spam comments can hurt the reading enjoyment for your audience and their involvement with you blog. Some comments that are spam can have language that is rude, offensive and inappropriate for your readers.

Identifying spam is easier than you think. There are some comments that appear to be formatted in another language that you cannot identify. If you see these types of comments they are more spam. Comments full of unrecognizable characters or jargon that don’t fit into recognizable sentences or their structure are spam. Nonsense or gibberish are others ways that spam find their way to your blog.

English language blogs have comment left in English. If you are writing a blog in Vietnamese, comments are left in Vietnamese. Therefore, if you think the comments are in a foreign language more than likely they are spam. Remove it immediately.

Comments filled with advertising information. For example, if you have advertising or links in a comment to things such as ProActiv or other affiliate marketing information remove these spam comments from your blog or website.

Other spam comes in the form of vague or information that is not relative to your blog or site content but filled with links are a different kind of spam. Delete this information and get it off of your site or blog. If you receive a comment and you cannot tell whether or not its spam, follow the link or URL provided in the body of information and define if it does or doesn’t add value for your readers. If it doesn’t, delete it as spam.

Every blogger or site owner loves to receive and read comments left by their audience related to quality content they have written. Commenting is a great resource for constructive feedback and can get a dialogue or conversation going with your readers. However, because of this spammers have taken the opportunity to abuse the privilege of commenting to pollute your blog or site.

Don’t allow your blog to have spam comments. Use your software and these tips to identify spam that gets past the spam blocking software and delete it as soon as possible.