A Very Special Note to Spammers
You know, if you’re going to spam a blog, you might want to consider these fine points of blog spamming:
1) Have a link to a website or something where people can buy whatever you’re peddling. Alternatively, just leave your URL without a hyperlink and hope the reader will type it in. Otherwise, you’ve just completely wasted your time.
2) Mind you, you’ve completely wasted your time anyway, because your comment went into moderation where no one but me will ever see it.
3) If you think that point 2 is clever marketing because you know that the blog author saw your comment, I refer you back to point 1.
4) Adding the link to your website will pretty much guarantee Akismet will identify your comment as spam, and block it. Sure, the blog author might go through the hundreds of spam comments Akismet blocked and read your comment and visit your site, but I doubt it.
5) Have you considered getting a job as a telemarketer? People will still hate you, but at least you’ll be getting an hourly wage, instead of sitting around waiting for millions of dollars to come pouring in from people that, oddly enough, aren’t visiting your website because of points 1-4.
I haven’t had much problems with spam comments, yet. Askimet has only blocked 6 and all the other comments I have recieved are ligit. Thankfully!!
Give it time. I didn’t have much spam in the first few months either. It was only a few weeks ago that I turned Akismet on. Previously, I was getting such a small amount of spam that I could manage it myself. I’d occasionally have a day where a spambot would hit me hard. When it got to the point where I was steadily getting 50+ spam messages a day, I signed up with Akismet.
Actually, reading my old post, I see that it was a month ago that I activated Akismet. I started my blog in July and you started yours in September, so if mine is any indication, you’ll probably start getting hammered in January. On the other hand, spammers may take notice of your site by the quantity of incoming links, in which case, maybe you can expect to start getting hammered when you break 100 in Technorati.
Spam, spam, spam.
This was a test.
Heh.