Buy 100 Quality Blog Comments for $19.99!
July 11th, 2007 | Filed under Blogging, SEO, Tips, Tools.A new service lets you buy quality blog comments without finding someone to write comments, or buying some high priced automated commenting program. You can buy 100 Blog Comments for $19.99 or 1000 Blog Comments for $199.99! If automated comment spam was not enough to waste your blogging time, paid comments spam promises to give bloggers a new challenge.
Akismet has been effectively blocking thousands of spam on this blog, but this type of human comment spam will be difficult for such antispam services to deal with too. This new service is called Buy Blog Comments and this is how it works
“We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it won’t get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines.”
It will be difficult to identify these spam paid comments as the blog comments will be related to the blog post topic and will look completely like legit comments.
Has paid commenting started?
I just moderated and accepted lots of very valid and interesting comments by 2 individuals on multiple posts. These are comments which Akismet would never block. These are comments you would welcome on a poorly commented post. These are comments which readers would like to respond to and discuss. These are comments which search engines would like to index and follow. There are no links or spam words to trigger blogging filters.
The comment review panel is full with such comments which makes me wonder if I should start rejecting these comments. Has paid commenting has started on this blog? Why am I looking at each comment with suspicion? Why do I feel so sad …
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Comments
Iantrepreneur | 12/07/07 #
yes it will be difficult to identify comment spam from these human spammers, the only thing we can really do is help each other and keep everyone focus
the movement for the do-follow now is pointless as it will just help those spammers
even with this the author that choses this service will definitely lose their brand respect online
Penguin Pete | 12/07/07 #
Ha! And what’s the difference between myself being more motivated to leave a comment here because I can leave a link to my site, and me hiring somebody else to do it?
Seriously, this would have to work by hiring 3rd-world country types who would leave about three quality comments, and the rest would be “Nice blog! Kind of reminds me of home-mortgage-site…” In other words, they’ll be easy to spot by the pattern over time like all other forms of spam. Take it from an online freelancer who works in the global market - at $20 USD per 100, you can NOT find someone with a good handle on English who would work for that kind of money, and that’s figuring it at cost.
What I do is check the link itself. If it sets off the spam sirens I’ll just delete it, just as I would a goatse’er.
Christy | 12/07/07 #
This is just scary, is nothing sacred? When I first heard about this I couldn’t believe it, it is quite sad.
Jack Square | 13/07/07 #
Hi I think this is a great idea! You should visit this great website I found recently: http://www.co-comments.com as I think it completely emphasizes this point.
Sean | 16/07/07 #
Really its nothing suprising, people get paid to spam for loads of reasons, however this could turn out for the better or for the worse, depending on the english of the person who is leaving the comments.. I have to aggree with Penguin Pete though, anyone who’s working for that little money won’t have a good grasp of the English language!
Milli22 | 12/08/07 #
we can really do is help each other and keep everyone focus, pattern over time like all other forms of spam. Take it from an online freelancer who works in the global market, When I first heard about this I couldn’t believe it, on the english of the person who is leaving the comments
Ali | 27/05/08 #
seems like a great idea I have been trying to get something like this but it hasn’t been to successfully well good luck to all about it.
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