It’s no secret to most people attempting to keep up with search engine optimization that Google and other search engines only really score you well if you’re linked from relevant websites. The downside to this is that spam comments looking for a home tend to gravitate to relevant posts instead.
I can understand, because of it’s powerful search engine, that when you post on Twitter about a certain subject you’re bombarded with spam tweet responses. But how the heck are people doing it with blogs?
Google’s Blog Search looks practically useless for that purpose, because almost none of the articles that are spam magnets on my site appear in those searches. I posted an entry called “Updated WordPress Plugins: Profit” and I was immediately inundated with spam comments about profit and banking.
I post something about feeling overweight and unhealthy and Akismet’s beating away comments about the current best diet pills with a heavy baseball bat.
It seems to take less than 24 hours for them to start pouring in too – so I’m left wondering exactly how the heck they’re accomplishing it.