Comment Spamming: Dumb Affiliate Move

Let’s face it. Not every affiliate has the technical & marketing knowledge to develop highly sophisticated affiliate campaigns. Some of the tactics used by newbie affiliates is sound and can serve as a stepping stone to build a highly sophisticated affiliate business in future. Spamming blogs is not one of those tactics. Blog spamming has been around for quite some time. Many aggressive marketers used it a few years ago to gain yes-follow links from other sites and push the products they were promoting on other sites. These days, the practice has become silly.

You don’t have to have a super popular blog to start getting those spam messages. Some of them are actually very sophisticated while others are easy to figure out. When someone uses the term “Poker Affiliate” as user-name to comment on a site, it’s clearly obvious what they are doing. Sometimes, spammers go beyond that and make it a bit more difficult to realize what they are doing. Comments that don’t read like an automated message are harder to figure out.

Does comment spamming work? I have seen many sophisticated bloggers actually let these comments through. The fact is, many top bloggers don’t have the time to go through each comment to figure out whether people are trying to spam their websites. If one can get enough clicks to their links on those popular sites, they may pull off a sale or two. But this is not the way to build a long-term business. It’s short-term at best. There are plenty of legit ways to make money online. It’s too sad some people prefer trying sneaky things instead of building their business.