Blog comment spam

For those of us that have blogs, comment spam is a constant thing. Even for small blogs like mine, it’s essential to have a spam filtering service to triage the comments so I don’t get alerted every time a likely spam comment comes in.  WordPress provides a filter called Akismet for that purpose, and it works well.

Spam comments, for those not familiar with them, are comments intended to drive traffic to some site, often a URL given as the purported author of the post. If they’re successful in getting links to their content added in a number of places, it may raise their rankings in the search engines. But the comments themselves are usually nonsense, general comments like “I like your blog”, or off-topic for the post they’re commenting on.

This afternoon I received a spam comment that seems to be a template used by one of these spammers to generate their vaguely nonsensical comments.  It’s sort of interesting to look at and gives some insight on how these comments are generated, so I thought I’d post it here.

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