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Passing along a little information from Darren over at Problogger. Apparently there is a new company out there (new is a loose term) that is offering to make custom spam comments for you. Basically, they look through a list of blogs and find blogs related to your niche. After that, they craft “non-spam” comments and post them to these blogs, linking back to the client blog.

According to Darren, they search for blogs that “follow” (i.e. that don’t have ‘no follow’ tags in their comments).

Buy Blog Comments

Spam

The company is known as “Buy Blog Comments.” From their website,

Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it wont get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines.

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Not only do services like this poison the blogosphere, but they also discourage people from turning off “no follow” on their blogs. Sure, using this service might drive a bit more traffic to your site, but I know for a fact that getting found out would do irreparable damage to your reputation online. The fact of the matter is that it is not worth it for a few extra click thrus.

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