Verifying Comment Spam Phrases
Sometimes I come across blog comments that are just a bit too generic. They're complimentary, but don't mention anything specific to the topic of the post. When this happens, there is a good chance the comment is a piece of spam.
Here's an example:
It's certainly polite, although it also says nothing related to the topic.
Other hints: Keyword stuffed username, SEO site, and an email address a human would never use (test@)
If that wasn't enough, I searched for the blog post's phrase on Google and found this:
WOW! That 10-word sentence has been indexed 17,300 times by Google.
Looks like that spammer has had quite a bit of success getting their spammy comment past thousands of bloggers.
1. Posted by: Jon Pear (a.k.a. NeuroAster) on August 3, 2008 6:17 AM:
I've seen comment-box Bovine-Scatology (B. S.) that's WAY better than "I would like to see a continuation of the topic" I've seen "Thank you for sharing this" "I've learned so much from your blog" and the "person's name" is supposedly PharmaCo or Viagra and the "person's webpage" is a corporate infomercial site. Spambots do WAY better than "I would like to see a continuation of the topic" believe you me! Whoa!