Google to Squash Blog Comment Spam

[desslock]

Steve Rubel's Blog reports that Google finally has imminent plans to end the blog comment spam that is rampant all over the web.

Blogs rank very well in search engines, so consequently people have been utilizing this as a place to spam their URLs, thus improving their page rank. This would however mean some changes in general as to how blogs generate traffic and PR.

I have personally discovered several interesting blogs simply by looking at my websites' statistics and checking Google backlinks.

Steve

[LavenderLounge]

I actually had to close off the comments of my blog because over the past few weeks I was getting 100 spams a day from the same company. However, the sites they are promoting have already been shut down by their hosting companies.

It appears that a marketing company signed up a bunch of clients, set up an automated script to spam every blog out there then just let it run continuously while they skipped town.

[Chilihost]

YAY!!! before all this blogging crapola started taking up the first 10 pages of every search term in google, I was actually listed quite nicely in a lot of search terms. I am looking forward to getting my googlers back

cheers,
Luke

[Dzinerbear]

dess,

Just trying to understand this a bit better because I'm not all that familiar with blogs. Is this referring to links spammers would put in the comments section when replying to a particular blog entry? And not the blog itself?

Thanks
Dzinerbear

[desslock]

When they make an entry in their blog, these bots come around and spam them with ads, which are appended as replies.

The proposed solution says that the Google spider will look for a html tag that can tell it to discontinue or change the way it slurps that page.

It may not be a panacea, but appears at first glance like it can help lots.

Steve

[Lee]

This can only be the start of things to come from Google in respect of anti-spam.

They have, imho, been lapse over the past year or two about addressing the issues of spam and specifically, the issue of blog spamming.

Regards,

Lee

[JustMe]

Greetings:

Originally posted by Lee
This can only be the start of things to come from Google in respect of anti-spam.

Well, I really do worry about seeing something that amounts to new HTML attributes being driven by a company, even one like Google, rather than the IEEE.

Look at what a cluster fuck Microsoft made of things with the proprietary tags they stuck in IE. Now we're having SEARCH ENGINES coming out with proprietary tags?

Uhm. I don't think I like the idea of that one bit.

This entire issue should have been brought before the IEEE to be addressed IMHO. The internet is going to become a scary, scary place if websites start making up their own tags and attributes, even if they are sites as large as google.