Comments on: Backlinkedge Scam

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:52:30 +0000

I wish so also, what works best for me so far is the captcha, not ideal, but I am tired of receiving hundreds of spam comments a day via bots, scripts etc. SY

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:43:50 +0000

As a fellow blog owner, spam comments are a HUGE waste of time for the editor. In fact, I would say that I spend 40% of my time weeding through quality comments. It would be nice if someone could invent something to eliminate this problem.

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:18:14 +0000

@Eddie from Managed Hosting
Exactly my point! I am of the same ilk, “when I do it myself, I know that it was done well”, rofl. BTW, did you notice the keyword luv option for comments, hint, hint. Did you read this post, it may help you further http://hospitalera.com/how-to-write-your-own-backlinks/ SY

@Matt
You got my point exactly BTW, your link to your web site was broken/ wrong, that is the reason I removed it. SY

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:51:39 +0000

Well I think services like backlinkedge will do more harm than good. First getting a lot of spam comment links will raise alarms in google’s algo & secondly, such widespread spam will blacklist customer’s website in askimet. I fully agree with the blogger here to avoid using such cheap(& bad) services.

By: Eddie from Managed Hosting

Eddie from Managed Hosting — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:39:12 +0000

This is the reason why I do my own backlinking instead of paying another company to do it, which is what is sounds like they do although it works via subscriptions. You never know what links they are getting or how many.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:02:36 +0000

Everything I thought of saying is discussed well in the comment section. I will pass on the information regarding backlinkedge scam so that innocent people do not sign up and loss their money and their website! - Mike

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:46:41 +0000

@William
I contacted Hostgator and the reply was that at the moment no spam scripts are used from the hosting account in question. This can mean two things:

As s/he was acquired the site it takes time to set all up, so the spamming of blogs might begin later. Or
S/he runs the “sales” part from hostgator and the “spam” part from another site or his/ her own server, then hostgator can’t do anything.
In all cases they promised me to keep an close eye on the account in question!

If you notice a lot of spam reaching your bvlogs from one ip address it is always worthwhile to figure out the web host and report it to them. All reputable web hosts, like hostgator, have an anti-spam policy in place.

@Chuggin
Yes, I filter my comments manually and yes spam has increased since I installed the two plugins. But the internet is made out of links and I am a great supporter of the dofollow movement

By: Chuggin@coffee press bodum

Chuggin@coffee press bodum — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:12:09 +0000

I completely hate blog spam, and I have added keyword luv to my own blog to increase traffic and reward commenters, but don’t you find that you have to filter out so much spam? Some of it is pretty hilarious, but it is overall annoying.

By: William

William — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:42:55 +0000

Nasty, nasty nasty! Something smells nasty in..the web?? Please keep us updated regarding what Hostgator did regarding this scammer. Paying for backlinks?? This guy is just making money out of people who don’t know nothing about building a site and giving pagerank to it.

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:16:11 +0000

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