Why are faux spam commentators surging to my blog?

[almostwitty]

Over the last few days, I've had a lot of comments on my main blog at almostwitty.com. Which is all well and good - and there’s even genuine-looking content on said comments, implying they’ve at least looked at the blogpost in question.

However, each comment leaves a link to a website of their choice, which turns out to be a purely commercial enterprise, whether it’s a weight-loss programme, a Chicago lawyer or a Southampton business directory.

Which leaves me wondering why people would take the painstaking time and effort to come to my blog, read an entry, make some comment related to the blogpost in question - all for a link from my blog. The last time I checked, my Google pagerank was 4, which isn’t exactly huge in the grand scheme of things. Besides which, Wordpress automatically adds a nofollow tag to each outgoing user-submitted link, so adding links to my blog is a somewhat pointless exercise anyway.

So, faux-real spam commentators, what on earth *are* you doing here?

It's another reason why I like LiveJournal. At least the comments are actually interesting and useful!

Originally published at almost witty. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[tshell.livejournal.com]

so you're saying you're NOT interested in buying any of my avon? dammit! all this time i've been forging a friendship with you all to sucker you into buying strawberry flavored lip gloss. there goes that plan all shot to hell. :)

[almostwitty]

Damn, my secret fetish for strawberry flavoured lip gloss is out...