Some mornings I wake up and find nothing but good email in my mailbox. Some mornings like today I wake up and find my inbox full of blog comment alerts which I have to moderate.

To all the blog spammers out there who think they are being really clever. You’re thick as planks.

This blog runs on Wordpress. The template is the standard Kubrick template. By default on this template on Wordpress all links in comments are appended with the rel=”nofollow” tag. You won’t get pagerank transferred and you wont get search engines visiting your site from ours. In fact, because of this the link means nothing at all unless one of our readers happened to think your comment was worthy of a click-through and a visit to your site.

But hang-on, get past the nofollow tag and then you’ve got to get past moderation. That means with a single click I can approve or send your comment to oblivion. No comments get onto the blog without my approval. So your 10 minutes of adding spammy links to my site are undone in a couple of seconds.

There are ways to post decent comments. Read the post. Think up a good reply or point to note then write it down. Don’t put your link in the comment box, put it in the proper URL box. Give something that at least looks like a real email address. If readers like your comment they’ll maybe visit your site.

So Mr Cial1s Spampot I hope you’re glad you put me in a great mood on a friday morning. I look forward to reading your next comment.

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