The objective sought in placing links in Blog comments is normally to raise the “PageRank®” of a site’s home page (part of the way Google ranks web pages) so that they get more visitors.
Google will blacklist sites it finds trying to monkey with its results in this way.
“If you believe that another site is abusing Google’s quality guidelines, please report that site at http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.”
It is worth reporting people, it will help to speed the end of this irritating practice, so you will be helping everyone.
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4 responses to “Spam® (a canned meat made largely from pork)”
Presumably we need to leave the offending links in while we make this report?
Google is not going to blacklist a site because it puts one comment on one blog. What they would probably do first is search their own database with the syntax
link:www.myspamsite.comso, no, I don’t think that you need to leave the link. If the site is systematically spamming their database it will be obvious to Google anyway.Wishing there was a similar way to deal with “trickle-treaters”?
Jax if we are on your server do we have to get individual spam blockers or have you got one on your server to cover everything on there.