Social clubs such as LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com) are scary data leaks. 

True Story

I had a creditor find me by doing a simple google search and pulling back results from LinkedIn and tailgate websites.  An employer can do a simple search and learn everything they want about you — this is a good thing if you have good history!  But, this also open the doors for anyone to search on your name and pull back personal information about yourself, such as: your full name, where you work (the physical address).  Just imagine someone writes something bad about you, just for no reason (they might not even know you) — then the negative comments can potentially follow your career for years to come.  What will you do?  This is what I had to ask myself, what do I do? 

I logged into my LinkedIn account and changed the settings to not publish my profile in web searches.

By default, your profile is included in web searches without any regard of who is searching on you, this is an unhealthy safety hazzard, because personal data about you is contained within those pages.  Opening the door when opportunity knocks is a good thing!  But leaving the door wide open is NOT!

I call it Quality Control …

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I hate Blogspot blogs for one reason, it is hard to comment spam, because most of Blogspot blogs comments are contained in a pop-up window or does not have a website URL field for leaving your website address or hyperlinks are disabled in the post.  For these reasons it makes it hard to comment spam Blogspot blogs. 

Blogspot blogs also do not pass PageRank well.  Why is Google so against SEO and our efforts?  Okay, I know comment spamming is bad, but not the way I do it.  I post to relevant post with something of value to say, the only reason I consider it comment spamming is because I purposedly prey on and search for related blogs and I closely focus attention on the anchor text for the comments.  Other than that they are regular comments from a normal visitor.  When I see a Blogspot blog I usually just move on, because of the drawbacks — its a waste of my time.  The biggest problem is that Blogspot has at least 30% of the blog population, this is a great number of blogs. 

It’s not a secret that comment spam does wonders for your website and can increase PageRank as well as link popularity.  This even holds true for blogs that employ the “nofollow” tag, I have still seen ranking from that.  Though, I have never seen any SEO benefit from Blogspot blogs.

Does anyone have any good advice for comment spamming Blogspot blogs?

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