Sacha

I have a pretty new Affiliate site. I have been trying to market the site for a couple of months now and get limited traffic. I started using Facebook ads last week and really vamped them up a couple of days ago. Yesterday I started get numberous comments on my posts and pages. I was like woo hoo!! But after waking up this morning almost 50 new comments I started to read through them and they ALL have at least one typo in them which I thought was strange and they all have weird comments. Some of the comments don't have anything to do with the posts and some of them are the same exact comments but from different people. I started to go through the e-mail addresses that they put on their post and looked at the domain names. Some of them are .ir which I immediately spammed and some others look to be legitimate sites. Am I getting scammed/spammed some how? I am only approving the ones that look legitimate and I can find the website that they claim is associated with their e-mail address. Does anyone have any tips on how to stop spam comments from coming through and how can I tell if these are legitimate or not. I am a total newbie. Please Help!!! Thanks you so much!!!!

Sacha

Jake1125

We must try to use our time effectively. Keep investigating/research to a minimum. Develop a simple plan to quickly review comments.

Just look at the comment, and decide if it adds valid keywords to assist with long-tail traffic. If the linking URL is undesirable (drugs, porn, etc) then edit the outbound url. Accept the comment with minimal/zero research, and move on.

If the comment does not contribute to your keywords, delete it without research. You will not be offending loyal fans, just spammers.

Also, utilize any anti-spam mechanism that you can (challenge questions, recapcha etc).

Rich78

Excellent advice.

If the comment has nothing to do with your content its spam.
One thing though is if the email doesn't match the domain that doesn't really say it's spam, I use one email for all my comments for a specific niche, but I have many domains per niche, so doesn't always match the domain that I post. Also if the comment IS relevant, has related keywords and overall contributes and you deem "Approve" worthy the only thing you need to do is check the link and if the site is unpleasant/drugs/porn/illegal/redirect/popup then trash it, even if it's a great comment.

To your success,

Rich

Sacha

Thank you! I really appreciate the help!

Sacha

huester

If people are leaving links with disregard to your niche then it is probably shit. Just delete it.

SEO Buddy

Yea pretty much what everyone else said, in that the comment that is too general is most likely spam. Most spam bots can't tell the difference between niches on different sites, so their spam will be general keywords like "Great post" or "I really like your theme", just garbage like that.

Sacha

Thank you everyone. I am super new to this and need to learn alot. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. I am so glad I found this forum.

Sacha

lawsonmilton

Captcha is definitively a good solution for controlling the spam comments. This is one way of avoiding spamming , beside this you should always have a authority on post commenting so you can have a check what is being shared on your website and what you can allow.This will keep clean your blog.

fairy8i8

You will always get spam, no matter what you do, but at least deter it, and get used to it. We even turned comments off and had people doing stuff to our site, so keep an eye out, and go with the flow. It's part of the freedom of the internet. You are free to make money, others will try to spam and scam you. I think there is enough good to outweigh the bad.

C.Rebecca

Well, lot of spammers post automated comments on blogs...
- You can blog such bots using their IP addresses
- Moderate such spammy comments manually
- Or make your blog nofollow... Spammers hunt for dofollow blogs and start flooding comment section with fluffy posts for backlinking credit.

ebonyking

You should use your time wisely and forgo wasting your precious time chasing spammers

biggking

So if I understand correctly, only allow posts to your Wordpress if they are related to your niche. I have had over 50 comments all of which were either "decrease your penis size" or "cheap viagra". Let's say I am targeting headlights for cars, should I be approving anything automotive related?

domenicjoe

You should approve vehicle related comments.
One thing we should understand that we can't distinguish between real and spam comment unless we look at a URL with the comment. Many of the real comments quality can be low and many spammers can post quality comments and relevant with the topic so it is too hard to find a real comment.

doug503

If you're on Wordpress you can try things like:
GASP (Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin) or Akismet
to filter out spammers.