This comment was sent to me today. You see, this looks a lot like a very legitimate comment, with a proper link, and other details.
But wait! Google a sentence from the comment. You will find that there are dozens and dozens of blogs and other pages, where the same comment appears. This is a comment spam! You see, I readily hit the 'Reject' option.
Here is another copy. In this, the link is different from the first one.
I don't know, who publishes these comments as the Blogger profiles from which they are posted are not available. But one thing is for sure. If you allow such comments to be published, you will victimize yourself to the duplicate content penalties. Please read this post to see how severe duplicate content problem can be.
This is why I have posted an image of the spam, and not the text itself.
This is not an isolated attempt. There are people creating identical comments and posting them across domains to see their links appearing in others' blogs. Here are a few steps to stay safe from these commenters.
Comment Moderation Tips
1. Don't ever let a comment go unmoderated. Automated spam filters like Akismet are still pretty useless. One thing you can do, if you get massive amount of comments, is disabling further comments in quite established conversations.
2. Enforce a very strict comment policy, and show an example by deleting any comment that doesn't follow the policy.
3. If you get an elaborate comment, do check in Google for one of the sentences to see if it is a legitimate comment or has copies allover the Net. Any comment that is elaborate, grammatically perfected, touching the topic only lightly, or not touching the topic at all, may be a spam.
4. If you find any such spam comment in any blog, let the blogger know of it.
5. Stop anonymous comments, and set your blog up so that only verified users can comment.
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