Many bloggers have spent sleepless nights fighting the onslaught of each day’s new comment spam; most of the time, it can be identified, eliminated, and protected against with minimal effort. However, a new breed of spam is on the rise, and it is for blatant self-promotion: bloggers who want to increase their website’s traffic can pay BuyBlogComments.com to intelligently spam similar blogs to get deceptive trackback action and higher SERP rankings.

Though many bloggers may be familiar with the standard comment spam of, “slkjssdfokid,” and a tasteless trackback, the spammers of tomorrow are leaving intelligent responses that are tailored to each particular post, assuring the post won’t be removed, which can increase the commenter’s ranking in SERPS.

BuyBlogComments.com says, ““Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it wont get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines. ”

Wikipedia on SERP:

“A search engine results page, or SERP, is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query. The results normally include a list of web pages with titles, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page. A SERP may refer to a single page of links returned, or to the set of all links returned for a search query.”

In essence, BuyBlogComments.com is offering a fool-proof way of increasing traffic to a paying user’s site by providing “fool-proof” spam at a moderate price; $20, $100 and $200 will buy you 100, 500 and 1000 intelligent spam comments, respectively.

Though every blogger would enjoy increased site traffic, there is something inherently wrong and corrupt with this back-door method to success.

First, courts are consistently ruling against spammers of all kinds; new iterations such as this are surely to be added to the list of offensive spamming practices.

Secondly, as the blogging community is close-knit in goals and intentions, users who purchase services such as this are dooming themselves to become outcasts; ProBlogger.net’s Darren Rowse said, “I know I add anyone spamming my blogs to Akismets blacklist and have been known to expose companies who do it. Perhaps it’s time that bloggers stood up a little more aggressive to such blatant attacks?”

Though the short term gains offered by such an ill-intentioned service might seem appealing, there is much more at stake; by utilizing such a service users are endangering their own sites and reputations as well as the well-being and future of the blogging community.

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Entry was posted on Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pm under Advertising, Antivirus, Blogosphere, Internet, Legal, Opinion.

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