Is it just me or does anyone else get the feeling they’re being used?
There I was minding my own business when joy of joys our blog got a comment! A rare and special event for me as, alas, we are a relatively fledgling blog in the grand scheme of things.
However, to my dismay it quickly dawned on me that perhaps this posting wasn’t actually a legitimate comment or, if it was, it displayed a rather limited amount of insight compared to previous postings.
To my post on ‘The Balance in Online Advertising’ a user titled ‘Smartfolio’ (a company specialising SEO!) posted:
'yes i agree, well said, great web site’
A fairly innocuous comment you might say. But after my gracious thanks for the comment a strikingly similar comment arrived:
'yes i agree, well said, great web site’
Now this isn’t just me being ungrateful or mistrusting. Take the most recent example in reply to a posting entitled ‘It’s the American way’ someone posted this not-to-be-missed titbit:
'The matter is... Usa don't feel hungry!!’
My conclusion from all this excitement is that either our blog had been overtaken by a clan of random comment posters or, for some reason, was being optimised.
Now I don’t know if this is a regular occurrence for other bloggers so I’d be interested in hearing from you. Is BSEO (blog search engine optimisation) a real phenomenon and how do these people help to get anything out of it with such crude comments? Also, what exactly do they want with our growing but currently low-ranked blog?