Hey, idiots: I’ve spent week after week eliminating spam comments from my blog. My email goes off every 20 minutes with people (spammers) posting their website with useless crap. A bit of a hint for you guys:

If you are trying to build (or pay someone to build) back links – blog comments do not count 99% of the time! The only way they would actually count is if there is a “dofollow” tag associated with them, and even then, chances are the moderator of the blog isn’t stupid enough to let this crap through.

To these scam artists trying to make a quick buck off of poor shlubs trying to increase their natural exposure to search engines: Knock it off. We know what you’re doing, and it’s annoying for everyone involved, and a scam in the purest sense of the word. I find it hard to believe, for example, that my blog now has 100 total comments when, honestly, I don’t have a very large reach as far as my audience is concerned. Out of that 100, a whopping 79 of them I’ve marked as spam. This is because they either advertise a product or build back links. It’s terrible form, and they know it.

Good luck spamming fellas, you won’t find any sanctuary here.