Buying Blog Comments Is Like Playing With Fire & A Can Of Gas

10 July 2007 Written By: Jim KukralComments: Comments

Make money teaching a class at Prfessor.com

This may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.

“Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it wont get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines. ”

Try to justify this model/idea in a legitimate sense. It’s impossible. Oh wait, if you just want to “make money online”, it might work for you.

Let me tell you something, when you talk to people at Google about stuff like this, they finish your sentences for you. In other words, they knew about it a month ago and are watching very closely.

You’re playing with fire to mess with this stuff. Dumb long-term.

Note: John Chow likes it, but doesn’t want to pay for it. Go figure.

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  • as I said in my post on this - Paying for comments — now that’s slimy

    http://www.winextra.com/2007/07/10/paying-for-c...
  • Las Vegas Guy
    Just when you thought spammers couldn't get any lamer...a paid spam comment generator. It really shouldn't be surprising though. Comment spam generated the nofollow tag in the first place....
  • Did you see how Chow was getting his readers to complain to Google on his behalf? They'll keep coming up with more schemes as time goes on, each one more shocking than the last.
  • Comments are awesome. Nothing is better than going to your blog and seeing real content from users, especially when they like the blog. Screw paid comments, it won't make a full time income.
  • and
    >>> Comments are awesome. Nothing is better than going to your blog and seeing real content from users, especially when they like the blog. Screw paid comments, it won’t make a full time income.


    Unless you live in India. Or Romania. Or Indonesia. Or Africa. Or East Germany...[fill in the blank]
  • yes they will find them over time.

    Comment spam traps are already in use against mass comment spammers.
    Once a few spam trap blogs work into the list everyone using it will be outed.

    Once the first round of comment buyers is found out its a small step to identify other blogs receiving commenting, combine that to find sites with a similar pattern then they should have a good over view of the network.
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