Wine Bloggers, Check Your Comments
Just a heads up to my fellow Wine Bloggers. Just noticed This guy:
Anonymous said…
I really like your wine blog. Please check out my wine and winery related news and information wine blog. Thanks!
Who is apparently spamming our comment sections with the same post. The site is cryptic at best, and I much prefer people email me if they want to advertise on the site or cross link.
If you use Blogger you can turn on a notification sent to your email every time someone posts a comment. This feature is handy to quickly respond to spam from people like this.
(Stuff like this makes me wonder if I should get rid of anonymous posting…)
~Jathan
September 13th, 2005 at 10:17 am
I am getting the same spam along with mortgage lenders! As they post anonymously, I can’t retaliate!
September 14th, 2005 at 10:02 am
One thing that helped against those types is to turn on word verification for anonymous posting. So far, it’s cleaned up that sort of Comment spam. But some people are still targeting topic specific blogs and linking to themselves (i.e. the example above)….