Comments on: Buying Blog Comments

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:13:00 +0000

I thought this was a well written article. Thank you for your input!

By: Esoridise

Esoridise — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:35:26 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:55:51 +0000

Daniel – the reason people pay for this is because they believe the backlinks will help with pagerank. That’s the only reason. You see backlinks sold on Sitepoint and Digitalpoint as well. It’s a very simple business model and can even be outsourced.

So this presents an opportunity to build a new business: anti-paid-comment-spam detection. These aren’t just bots but humans so the detection is more difficult. It will be a constant cat and mouse game. Is it worth the effort? Probably not, unless you can get thousands of sites to participate.

By: Wally Bock

Wally Bock — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:39:13 +0000

There are two other twists on this issue. First, at eLance and Guru there are buyers soliciting writer to place blog comments promoting whatever their business is.

Then, in today’s journal, we find the CEO of Whole Foods posting negative messages about a competitor on stock discussion boards, but under an assumed name.

Here’s the link to the Journal story.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118418782959963745.html

By: Daniel Sweet

Daniel Sweet — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:11:43 +0000

At first, I thought this service was having people put comments on your own blog which, if relevant, might be okay.

Then I finally clued in that someone is paying blog spammers to spam other places with your blog name.

Almost no blog spam gets onto FRACAT and I can’t imagine it being any different at any blog with traffic.

Why would you pay for this service? It makes absolutely no sense to me.

Dan

By: Vijay Teach Me

Vijay Teach Me — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:07:04 +0000

This is a pathetic idea to utilize, I can not even guess what will they think of next…

By: Davis Freeberg

Davis Freeberg — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:59:01 +0000

I can understand why someone would want to make a business out of astroturfing, but can’t understand why someone would pay to have it happen. Comment spam is so annoying and it’s likely that the only ones who will end up seeing it are the bloggers who have to deal with removing it.

I’m all for looking at new companies, but when my introduction to a product or service starts with comment spam, it will leave a bad taste in my mouth for that company. This seems like one of those things that could be good in the short term, but will blow up once some upset blogger blasts a company that is trying to stuff the comments.