Legit comments are going to spam
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Is there a way that I can look at my spam comments? I just found two recent comments in the spam folder which were legit comments. And now I’m wondering if my comments are being read as spam. Several months of blogging: a total of 7 comments.
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Hi there. I had a look at a few of your blog. The commenter you approved for the post, The User, is a spammer.
Most of the spam in the spam queue in your dashboard is generated by humans and some of them look very much like real comments, but if you look at the poster’s email and website it’s pretty easy to tell they’re fake. These spammers also only offer vague praise of your site without making any reference whatsoever to the actual post.
By approving comments like those you’re doing exactly what these spammers want – you are posting a link to their sites on yours, driving up their search rankings and sending them traffic. You’re also opening up your site to more and worse spam as Akismet is a learning engine and will stop filtering those comments if you approve enough of them.
Akismet filters out those comments for a reason. I never even look at my spam queue unless a regular reader informs me that their comments are not showing up, and that has happened only once in two years of blogging. Meanwhile Akismet has protected me from over 4000 meaningless spam comments exactly like the one you approved on that post. (The comments generated by spam bots and containing malware and viruses are immediately deleted by Akismet – they don’t even land in the spam queue.)
I strongly urge you to mark that comment as Spam again, along with any similar comment you may have approved. Also see here for more information: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/05/20/mark-spam-as-spam/
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The comment from “tas papilon” at http://madelynlang469.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/the-user-a-primer/comment-page-1/#comment-26 is also a generic spam comment made for the sole purpose of attracting traffic back to the blog of the blogger who posted it.
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@timethief
Hi there :) That’s the one I was referring to.BTW, have you noticed the “5 things every blogger should know about spam” article that used to be at http://akismet.com/how/ is no longer there?
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@kokkieh
Thanks for the heads up up on that removal. Too bad it’s gone. :(Here’s a link to a useful post on how to spot a spam pingback http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/23/how-to-spot-a-splog/
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