Or more specifically, bad english comments from people with a .ru email address?
The latest I got was on my ‘Fallout3 Keep the game alive’ blog post. I’ve deleted it now, so I can’t remember the exact words, but it was something like “cool notails.com googlereader!!”
Is it just me? Is it specific to wordpress bloggs? Is it something I should worry about?
Are they relevant comments or just words? If the comment seems to be relevant to the discussion the commenters are probably using Google Translator (or another such tool) and often the words come out “a bit off”
If they are random stuff it’s spam
Hi!
Interesting post! This happening lots time in web!
Thank you for sharing mybigbadspamsite.ru
Exactly like that!
In America, you get spam from Russian posters.
In Russia, you get spam from Russian posters! What a country!
In soviet russia, Spam gets you!
I’ve been getting a run of comments in Asian characters. I assume they’re spam. I delete them, but it’s a pain, so I have comment moderation on my blog for right now.
If it’s got links in, it’s probably not just spam trying to generate traffic from people clicking it, but it may also be search engine manipulation - among the factors influencing page rank in Google are the number and diversity of inbound links from other sites.
They are gaming google’s url weighting system. your site has a high pagerank so by dropping myspyware.com in your comments it will raise their pagerank.
Sometimes its testing to see if they cracked your captcha and automated posting.
I don’t have a captcha but I do have moderated commenting. Their comments never make it onto my blog.
Does my blog really have a high page rank? Or are you just saying that for the sake of the argument being discussed?
If it does have a high pagerank a) sweet! b) I don’t know why or how.
ETA: My blog is a wordpress blog. I don’t think it uses captchas. Does WP have a captcha widget? And if not how do I implement captchas? If I had a captcha there would be less need to have moderated commenting switched on.
I’ll go google that question now.
They might not be looking specifically at your blog. Theyre probably googling for postcomments.cgi or whatever wordpress uses and spamming all the ones they can find.
I, and a bunch of other blogs I frequented, got a rush of those a while back. It was like five or six of my posts and I noticed it on other people’s posts, but it stopped happening.
Doesn’t matter - if it’s indexed by Google, then Google would see any links there pointing to their site and that would falsely inflate Google’s understanding of their site’s popularity.
Sure it works better for them if they create inboind links on a popular site, but it still has some effect from less popular ones.
From Russia, with spam. I don’t know if it’s possible to block addresses on a blog but I’d block the .ru
Yeah, definitely.
By far the most common spam I get is great huge blocks of text—dozens and dozens of lines—filled with hyperlinked drug names and other typical spam subjects.
These are so easy to spot as I’m sifting through “suspected spam” since they are so amazingly huge and there are no line breaks.
I get occasional Russian spam, sometimes in Russian. I once asked a friend from Moscow what they say, and the comments she read were friendly and flattering, but they still had their typical links to spam sites.
I’m also using WordPress. Let us all know what you find for a captcha solution!
ETA: Thanks, Reply, I’ll check it out.