this is the personal blog of brandon quintana.

I have been following Darren Rowse’s blog ProBlogger for a few months now. I guess you could say he gave me some inspiration into moving into the whole blog format and for the most part I’m glad I did. It’s a great way to get my views out and an easy way to keep my sites updated. In his post, the Cost of Comment Spam he mentioned that he has seen some people give up on preventing spam in their comment posts.

Almost daily, I have to clear out comment spam from the blogs I have created. That’s the main reason I moderate my comment posts. It’s not that I filter people’s ideas to only show what I want. Most of the spam I encounter are massive amounts of links to whoever the spammer is trying to promote.

Since blogs offer such high page rank in Google and Google weights links heavily in its search results links in the spam only promote the spammers site. The spammer can built huge link popularity just by spamming a few different blogs in their topic category.

Darren makes a point that people think that if they ignore the spam it will eventually go away. Recently I have been working on some filters to eliminate spam and creating rules to reduce it. I don’t mind filtering my results to eliminate spam even though I would like it if I could just let comments be open.

Rowse also mentioned that it could tarnish your reputation and is sometimes unethical. In the end the site is a reflection of its owner. It just looks bad on you if you don’t attempt to control the situation.

The best advice I could give bloggers like Darren does it just spend some time everyday to keep your comment sections clean. You and your readers will be much happier at the end of the day.