Comments on: Blog Comment Spamming Leads to Google Banning

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:45:21 +0000

The days of comment spamming are numbered, many sites have been cracking down the the spam and google has created tags so blog sites can block these spams sites from being indexed. Spamming the blogs will become useless

By: Jerk

Jerk — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:31:39 +0000

Nasty. So some guy can simply comment spam your site with one of those automated bloggers, putting their competitors url in instead of theirs and the competitor loses their account? Is Google that nasty that they would honor something like that? That’s a pandora’s box.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:23:35 +0000

Do a search for ‘Google Bowling’. While not 100% proven, the idea that waging aggressive link campaigns against a site to wipe them from Google does have some followers. It could of course backfire if you spend all sorts of time and money on such a campaign only to have nothing happen, or even worse your competitor actually gets a boost!

By: roberto iza

roberto iza — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:13:09 +0000

Why do we all write a question mark after our names?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:32:38 +0000

Comment spamming is a pain in the ass, no doubt, but “weeks” out of my life? I spend about 10 seconds every few days to delete comment spam. Perhaps I’ve just been lucky so far.

By: Janeth

Janeth — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:54:28 +0000

The site could have been banned for many reasons. I agree with Phil Craven’s comments. I hate the guys doing this type of junk but do not think Google banned the site because of the comments.

By: PhilC

PhilC — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:14:44 +0000

I haven’t read the WMW thread, but it could be that the guy’s site was penalised for something completely different, and the blog-spamming was just coincidence. Google have never said that other people can’t hurt a site – only that they “usually” can’t hurt it. Even so, I’d be surprised if a bout of blog-spamming brought about a ban as quickly as it sounded to happen. It would be ok for the links to be discounted, but a ban would not be right.

By: Jason Bailey

Jason Bailey — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:38:23 +0000

Sounds like another clear confirmation of how one can go about nuking their competitors from the SERPs. Nasty and scary. Really scary! Some of my competitors are not freindly people. I am glad they are also not savvy enough to figure this out…

By: Ben Wills

Ben Wills — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:38:20 +0000

This doesn’t make sense: Google has always stated that they will not penalize actions that cannot be directly attributed to your website, only that they will have no effect.

Essentially, that they won’t penalize you for something that someone else can do. This is the principle for being link farms not harming you, but if you link to a link farm, then a penalty may be invoked.

What would keep people from using this software to “promote” their competitors and ultimately get them banned?

This person’s post does not align with Google’s historical stance on this principle.

Ben Wills

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:24:40 +0000

“the guy who made that post should be hitten with a heated rod 100 times.”

Do you mean TechWhacked? LOL