(Had to give you a really cheesy pix, didn’t I?)
I hate spam as much as the next guy. And sometimes, these guys manage to make a nice sounding post which gets by the spam filters. Some people are simply thinking that they can market their stuff by getting links through comments. What they don’t understand is that lots of people are wise to this, and filters take out quite a bit of trash this way.
I got curious what was in those filters and found some fascinating ideas what to do with them. Of course, they can simply be deleted. And the Askismet filter will do that anyway, eventually. I found a better handling, however:
- Open up the spam and find a complimentary one.
- Delete their URL and put in on of your own (from one of your many sites.)
- Add to their comments if you want, pile on the compliments.
- Approve the comment and sit back to admire your work.
What this does is to give your other posts backlinks. So you are spamming yourself, in other words. And if you take the time to deep link to a page inside your site, all the better.
Of course, you only want to do this when you are idle, with nothing better to do in life at the moment. But it is a way to recycle otherwise wasted electrons…
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