Most of the traffic to this blog is generated from blog comments and forum postings.

I’ll focus on blog comments today.

There are a number of misguided bloggers and website owners out there who believe that posting spam comments on a blog will help their SEO and traffic efforts.

It’s easy to identify these comments as they’d usually be preceded with a generic comment like: “Fun and interesting site” or “This is a good site” before ending off with a hyperlink to their own site.

The newer practitioners of this tactics will attempt to manually copy and paste the comment in the comments area of a blog post. Continue reading →