Blog comment spam test…

If you get a comment on your blog and you wonder if its spam or not, do this simple test. Google the comment. Someone posted the following to my blog…

It is extremely interesting for me to read that article. Thanx for it. I like such themes and everything connected to this matter. I would like to read a bit more on this blog soon.

Avril Swenson

And this is what I got from google. Alrighty then….

What is alphainventions?

I’ve been blogging only a short while and fairly obsessed with stats (just posted about it earlier). As I’m learning some lessons about spam the hard way, I need a straight answer. Is alphainventions spam? I clicked on it, got some ad of theirs, then got bounced to someone’s blog, tried to scroll down, then got bounced to another blog. Immediately my virus sensors went off and I closed the window.

My concern – if someone views my blog because another site took them there for a moment then bounced them to another blog quickly after, is this a good thing? In all honesty, the view of the blog I got bounced to was so short-lived and confusing to me that I can’t even recall what blog I even saw. Maybe its really alphainventions promoting themselves by getting in my referral stats? I’m confused.

Again, I’m new at this. Maybe its good? But maybe it’s not!

Still learning the hard way……this time about comment spam.

So I get all excited when, for the first time, someone posts a comment to my blog. Again, I haven’t had this blog for long so I was pretty psyched. Then good ‘ole fear popped into my head…is this spam? So I googled about comment spam and unfortunately the results didn’t assuage my fear. Damn. Maybe the compliment was real…but who’s to say at this point. Regardless, my bubble’s popped, the lesson’s learned, and I press on…