Comments on: How not to do PR http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/05/12/how-not-to-do-pr/ It's about the journalism Sun, 20 May 2012 17:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Special Drawing Rights http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/05/12/how-not-to-do-pr/comment-page-1/#comment-396234 Special Drawing Rights Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:42:26 +0000 http://www.tamark.ca/students/?p=2176#comment-396234 Thanks for the info about How not to do PR! Thanks for the info about How not to do PR!

]]> By: WaltDe http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/05/12/how-not-to-do-pr/comment-page-1/#comment-72273 WaltDe Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:51:05 +0000 http://www.tamark.ca/students/?p=2176#comment-72273 Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe

]]> By: Amy Gahran http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/05/12/how-not-to-do-pr/comment-page-1/#comment-12741 Amy Gahran Sun, 14 May 2006 13:57:30 +0000 http://www.tamark.ca/students/?p=2176#comment-12741 Yeah -- there is a very special hell for comment spammers. Fortunately this problem is not too difficult to combat, if you're willing to moderate comments and close comments on older postings. I do that on Contentious.com, which gets slammed with comment spam. What amazes me is that Corante doesn't appear to do much to prevent comment spam. I wrote about this yesterday: http://www.rightconversation.com/2006/05/corantes_commen.html Thanks, - Amy Gahran RightConversation.com Contentious.com IReporter.org Editor, Poynter's E-Media Tidbits Yeah — there is a very special hell for comment spammers. Fortunately this problem is not too difficult to combat, if you’re willing to moderate comments and close comments on older postings. I do that on Contentious.com, which gets slammed with comment spam.

What amazes me is that Corante doesn’t appear to do much to prevent comment spam. I wrote about this yesterday:

http://www.rightconversation.c.....ommen.html

Thanks,

- Amy Gahran

RightConversation.com
Contentious.com
IReporter.org

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]]> By: Jaap http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/05/12/how-not-to-do-pr/comment-page-1/#comment-12196 Jaap Sat, 13 May 2006 08:26:29 +0000 http://www.tamark.ca/students/?p=2176#comment-12196 But then again, I might be a bit naive; look at the kind of spam <a href="http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/05/12/comment-spammer-not-sufficiently-clever/" rel="nofollow">Dan Gillmor</a> is getting (that's really a link to his blog, not to online casino games ;-)) But then again, I might be a bit naive; look at the kind of spam Dan Gillmor is getting (that’s really a link to his blog, not to online casino games ;-))

]]> By: Jaap http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/05/12/how-not-to-do-pr/comment-page-1/#comment-12195 Jaap Sat, 13 May 2006 08:16:04 +0000 http://www.tamark.ca/students/?p=2176#comment-12195 It's not about PR, it's about Google Pagerank. Comments are usually added automatically by spiders or something, and their main goal, as far as I know, is not to even to be read by people, but to be indexed by search engine spiders. More links from blog comments to their site means a higher pagerank. And many blog engines don't have Wordpress's Spam Karma or even anything similar to its built in spam filter. And the thing is: I think it pays off. It’s not about PR, it’s about Google Pagerank. Comments are usually added automatically by spiders or something, and their main goal, as far as I know, is not to even to be read by people, but to be indexed by search engine spiders. More links from blog comments to their site means a higher pagerank. And many blog engines don’t have WordPress’s Spam Karma or even anything similar to its built in spam filter. And the thing is: I think it pays off.

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