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I just got a comment from Louis Vuitton!
Oh, wait, no – upon further investigation, it appears that was spam trying to sell knock-off handbags.
Dang it! 😉
Seriously – what is the deal with spam comments?! I don’t have a top-rated blog, there aren’t a zillion people flocking to the site daily, and my Google Analytics (when I remember to check them, teehee, sorry TLB but it’s true!) are humbling to say the least… Yet every day I have a dozen spam comments waiting to be trashed.
I don’t understand what these people think they’re going to get by spamming my site. Even if I approved them all and they go to re-spam it on a daily/hourly/minute-ly basis, what could they possibly hope to achieve?
I guess I can understand the logic a bit if you are spamming someone famous’s blog, counting on gross quantities of traffic and comments such that your one might slip in and you might end up getting seen by scads of people. Although, come to think of it, the odds of “slipping by” when someone has a full-time dedicated staff devoted to maintaining the integrity of a blog is probably unlikely. So scratch that – I will start again.
I guess I can understand the logic a bit if you are spamming someone niche-famous’s blog. Better? By that I mean someone with a devoted, large following but that isn’t quite into the upper echelons of being able to afford a staff to do hands-on things like keep you up-to-date with the blogosphere… Although, come to think of it, I still don’t get it. Not only because spam is RUDE, but also because who in the hell would actually click on the random-ass, completely unrelated and totally obviously spam-tastic links provided in these kinds of faux-comments??
Sigh.
I don’t get it. But I *really* don’t get when they spam me. It’s pointless for them, irritating to me, and unproductive for us all. So stop, please. 🙂
Hiya Jill!
Just got hit with three spammer comments myself this afternoon. I switched to comment moderation, however, when I went on my little “down time for Tracy” time (heheh), so they never saw the light of day.
Most spammers are hoping for a little link juice – in other words, if they perceive your blog as valuable, they’re hoping that links they post on your site will help raise the value of theirs. I’m oversimplifying, and there is code that some blog sites automatically append to visitor links to combat this, but trust me, they do it because it sometimes works (over time) when they are in mass spamming mode. Not that it always does, but they don’t care.
Throw enough spaghetti against a wall and some will stick, you know? 🙂
And what do you mean you’re not checking your analytics???
🙂
See you soon!
Tracy
Yeah, mine never see the light of day either – I have to approve the first comment someone tries to post, then they can post freely thereafter. I still get a notification that a comment goes up, so I can pull if necessary – thankfully, so far it hasn’t been necessary. 🙂
And teehee, I knew you’d give me grief about the analytics – threw that one just to see if you were reading… 😉
Thanks for the comment and insight into the spam thing. I guess I figured it had to work sometimes, or they wouldn’t bother, but I really don’t see how my blog comes up on their list of spaghetti wall targets!