This evening checking the comments on my Photography Blog i was pissed off to discover blog spam advertising of all things Limo Services in Houston. Its not that its just spam, its that it so obviously doesn’t belong on a blog whose sole topic is photos posted from Australia blog that is the most annoying part. That the anti spam plugin did its job perfectly and prevent this spam from ever reaching the live part of my blog is irrelevant, its that they tried that really annoyed me.
So its somewhat ironic i guess that ten minutes later i am reading a post by this post by Darren Rowse of Problogger about him taking his fight against comment spammers and plagiarists to the next level. So i went back to the comment spam and visited the website it linked to discover amoungst other content Adsense advertisements on the site. Here is a good suggestion from Darren’s post:
Every Adsense Ad has a Ads by Gooooogle link on it and if you click that link and look for the ‘Send Google your thoughts on the ads you just saw’ link on the page it takes you to you’ll be able to tell AdSense what you think about the ads.
* If the site is one that is using comment spam to promote themselves – tell them about it and demand they take action.
Its a small step i know and there is no guarantee that google is going to take action but if many people start taking small steps then maybe we might get somewhere. So next time your blog gets spammed, don’t get angry, get even. Report them and if google gets enough complaints maybe it will hit them in the hip pocket.
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