Ok, let’s get one thing straight. Nothing is more irritating to both the legitimate search engine and the legitimate search engine marketer than this new craze about blog and guestbook spamming. People are acting like it’s the greatest thing to hit Black Hat SEO since doorway pages (by the way I invented those…shhhhhh…….their original name was “hitwhores”…..you heard me right……shhhh).

What these site owners don’t realize is how incredibly easy it is to detect this spam. Even if people don’t use the REL=”NOFOLLOW” tag in their code, most guestbook scripts and blog scripts display a commenter’s link pretty much the same and/or have the same structure that tells the search engine this is a blog or guestbook. So if a search engine sees too many generic links of this nature they can easily ban your site or penalize it.

So a word to the not so wise. If you’re going to be a sheep and spam like everyone else expect to be lead to the same slaughter house. So if you’re going to comment spam at least take some sort of ingenuity and do it right.

Here’s an idea that will hopefully get many spammers to quit trying to crawl up bloggers asses and start pestering people like annoying computer course teachers and government agencies. Yahoo allows you to filter for sites that end in .gov and .edu domains. Everyone knows a link from a .gov and .edu TLD is MUCH more valuable than our petty white hat sites. Try searching for phrases that are unique to blogs and guestbooks using only those TLDs. Believe me, you may end up finding a TON more than you think would exist. At least this way you only have to spam 10-15 reputable sites instead of spamming hundreds to thousands of not as reputable sites. This keeps you flying under the radar and people like McNerd Tech don’t have to give you calls in the middle of the night threatening to strangle your children with their now dead pet puppy Fluffins.

For those of you who already comment spam and are reading this, try this for your next site. Don’t attempt to spam both. Search engines love .gov and .edu sites, so if your site is already being looked at for comment spam this will only speed up the decision.