{"id":574,"date":"2010-11-28T23:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T07:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/?p=574"},"modified":"2012-04-12T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T18:02:42","slug":"danger-of-approving-comments-on-your-blog-from-nice-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/social-networking\/danger-of-approving-comments-on-your-blog-from-nice-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger of Approving Comments on Your Blog from &#8220;Nice&#8221; Spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-578\" title=\"Wordpress Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-200x200.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-200x200.png\" alt=\"Wordpress Logo image\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27200%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20200%20200%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27200%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Just thought I&#8217;d send a quick post about this subject&#8230; in short don&#8217;t approve comments without reading each one thoroughly.  Even though comments can give you more content and make you look popular, they can also adversely affect your search engine rankings among other things.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Read More About Why You Want to Carefully Check Before Approving Comments On Your Blog --><br \/>\n<iframe class=\"lazyload\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27550%27%20height%3D%27309%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20550%20309%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27550%27%20height%3D%27309%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Jj81mkycCw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Check an example of another one we just received:<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>&#8220;That is my second see to this weblog. We are starting a whole new initiative while in the same exact category as this blog. Your blog offered us with vital information to do the trick on. You might have achieved a marvellous position.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The dead giveaways:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t say sh*t<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s too nice<\/li>\n<li>Poor spelling<\/li>\n<li>Poor grammar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why would a spammer send nice comments?<\/h3>\n<p>They just want the backlinks (a link back their site)\u00a0 from sites with decent pagerank to gain better rakings\/standings on Google&#8230; most likely to make more $$ with advertising.\u00a0 Yep, it&#8217;s that simple.<\/p>\n<h3>Why should you care?<\/h3>\n<p>Having links to sites that may be marked as spam sites or blacklisted  can look bad in Google&#8217;s eyes&#8230; and we want to always remain in  Google&#8217;s good graces, yes?\u00a0 ;^ )<\/p>\n<h3>What to do?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t approve the comment<\/li>\n<li>Mark it as spam (your blogging software should\u00a0 just have a quick link to do this)<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s it!\u00a0 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you want to have your spam removed automatically, just install <a href=\"https:\/\/akismet.com\" title=\"Akismet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Akismet<\/a><\/strong> (FREE &#8211; depending on the type of site you run) and let it manage the spam for you.  (it&#8217;s truly amazing&#8230; nuking about 99.9% of the spam automatically)<\/p>\n<p>Hope it helps.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I&#8217;d send a quick post about this subject&#8230;&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/social-networking\/danger-of-approving-comments-on-your-blog-from-nice-spammers\/\">Continue Reading<span> Danger of Approving Comments on Your Blog from &#8220;Nice&#8221; Spammers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,46],"tags":[95,93,94],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-web-development","tag-backlinks","tag-danger-of-approving-comments-on-your-blog-from-nice-spammers","tag-nice-spammers-approving-comments-in-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}