« Rand Fishkin is Oprah — 9 October 2007

As your blog grows, so will your comments (hopefully), and in turn, so will your comment spam. There are plenty of great tools out there that help combat this, but before you blindly remove spam, take a look at it.

If you look at some of the comments on my post plugging Shylock,  you will see that they were blatant attempts at getting a link. One wanted to have a link to his or her site with search terms that happened to compliment my site. So, instead of just deleting it, I stripped the URL, and kept the comment. Thus giving me a tad bit more content within the post, containing some search terms.

Now, this probably isn’t conducive to some of those blogs that get thousands of spam comments, but I only get about 15 a day. It’s not a large chunk of my time to glance over them.

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