I have been publishing my blog for a number of years. I have found that not only do I need to come up with interesting topics to write about, I also have to keep an eye out for spam.  Thank goodness I have a spam blocker installed, it’s caught over 10,000 spam comments since I posted my first article February 5th 2009. I’m coming up on almost 3 years having this blog.

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to come up with decent, interesting materials. Allowing someone to spam comment my postings is the last thing I want to allow.  They get exposure, and greater importance on google because of their comments.  Their site address gets associated with my site… it’s like gorilla backlinking…

I used to think that if you got lots of spam comments, then at least people were looking at your site. This is true to an extent. My wife’s blog http://livinginramona.com gets 20 to 30 spam comments per day. Most are pretty ridiculous. Most come from Russia, and other countries in that region and are pushing porn. And then there are the other ones that are trying to get the web operator to sign up for SEO services to improve your google ranking – think of it as viagra for your web site…. oh yes, they are also pushing viagra!

Oh the things that you never see from behind the scenes of a blog web site. Pretty annoying, but it’s worth puting up with if you enjoy publishing your own blog.