Yesterday, I was reading an article talking about a new kind of blog comment spam, something that I have definitely come across lately, and was intrigued by the comments responding to the article. The individuals reading the blog were all aware of the situation, and had some good suggestions as to why this new type of spam would be used; my suggestion was the simple URL that would be included on the comment is still a link back, and if you can easily copy and paste a generic message into thousands of blogs that probably won’t get removed, it will have the desired effect. I would have thought little of it, but when I was looking for information on a post I made for Superb, I stumbled across this article on Layered Tech’s blog. I was already interested in the information, and seeing 3 comments, I decided to find out what other people had left about the article.

1. Wow cool site! to be honest, I am surprise of the power of Wordpress!

   keep it up and hope you post more ! So that we benefit from it!

2. Thanks for the post and updated Info!
3. […] You can read the rest of this blog post by going to the original source, here […]

The first comment is obviously this new type of comment spam, and the last comment is a trackback, but looking at the second comment listed, it’s difficult to know for sure whether or not it is legitimate. Having looked at the link on the comment, it is almost definitely a spam comment, but for the untrained (too-busy-to-be-bothered) eye, it seems like a valid comment in response to the article.

It does make me wonder if the average person will remove these types of comments, or if this might be a successful/beneficial method of linking.

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