Blogger Comments
Geeks aren’t dumb and on blogger they have found a very useful tool to improve their own sites Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The tool is that many bloggers, like myself, allow un-verified anonymous comments. All the geeks have to do is write a little bot that goes round to all these sites posting comments like ‘your blog is the coolest I’ve every seen »’. The little angle brackets look nice and innocuous don’t they? They are links to a site. Maybe the site the link points to has malicious script on it (the ones I’ve included just go to oonagi, so it’s safe). More likely it’s just a link. Here is where the SEO comes in. The more people that link to your site, the higher it ranks on search engines. So what are we supposed to do? The last thing I and many others want to do is make people log in to comment. Blogger does provide you with a tool of your own though. Word verification on comments. A funny little graphic where you just have to re-type the words. I’m afraid that’s what I’ve had to do. It’s an annoyance, but alas a necessary one.