Comments on: Can Spam Comments Hurt Your Blog’s Rankings?

By: Zadar

Zadar — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:46:16 +0000

Spam comments obviously can’t help, but I’ve been thinking about something a little bit different. What happens if someone adds spam comments and links to your site with spam keywords? I think this hurts sites rating badly. How to defend from this way of “SEO attack”? It appears to me that the victim can only watch how the site goes down.

By: makarska

makarska — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:49:45 +0000

Hm, hard to say. I have seen many spammed pages with good PR and high search engine ranking.

~makarska

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:25:46 +0000

Good point, Jeet. Google does follow nofollow links, therefore those links are subject to the same warnings that dofollow links are subject to. Just because you add a nofollow attribute to a link doesn’t mean any search engine obligated to obey that command – and some don’t.

By: Jeet

Jeet — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:04:58 +0000

@Allen: You should add the recent PR sculpting and nofollow PR leak part to this debate. Even nofollow links can hurt if they are pointing to bad neighborhood.

I moderate comments on my blog with a tight fist and though I use dofollow plug-in, I don’t like keywords in Name field.