[thelist] Blog Submitter Pro - useful tool or annoying spam?

Anthony Ettinger apwebdesign at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 23 10:53:48 CDT 2005



--- Ian Anderson <ian at zstudio.co.uk> wrote:

> Anthony Ettinger wrote:
> > Comment spamming is not really something that is
> > recommended you do. Any of those "submit it pro"
> > packages for $99.95 is crap anyway.
> 
> Yes, quite agree. There are two things that occur to
> me about this:
> 
> 1. Comment spam is one of the saddest things to
> happen to the web in a 
> while - it really attacks the community aspect of
> personal publishing. I 
> think it's actually worse than email spam because
> it's vandalising the 
> web site in question, and many people are affected
> by the consequences.
> 
> 2. There is becoming little point in the technique
> for SEO because 
> increasing numbers of blog packages and page authors
> implement various 
> techniques to prevent the links from bestowing
> PageRank on the spammed URLs.
> 
> e.g. putting the attribute rel="nofollow" on link
> tags
> 
> (c.f. http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html tip
> 14)
> 

Yes, Moveable Type's newest releases do a redirect,
therefore making a link pointless. It only passes PR
along if it's a direct link. If it goes through a
redirect script, then it's not doing anything for the spammer.

Anthony Ettinger
ph: (408) 656-2473
blog: http://www.chovy.com


		
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