Tip from Blogger to Blogger…

July 12th, 2008

Pay attention to your titles.  Blog titles catch the eyes of spam bots and other web crawlers.  Titles with, uh, unfortunate word combinations in them inspire an onslaught of spam comments that can turn the stomach of even the most experienced of the viagra-spam-email-receiving set.  I’m not sure I understand the value of comments that contain a sprinkling of unconnected words nearly always containing “c*ck” or “d!ck” and the ubiquitious website link (to what site?  Heck if I know where those links go, I’m sure I’d get a virus or an STD or something if I click there).  Surely there is some great worth to these things since my post titled “Very Very Hairy” has been the owner of more than 16 of such comments.  I suspect that it’s the “Hairy” and not the “Very” that inspired the spam attack.

So from now on, I’ll watch my language.  And maybe I’ll go back and title that post “Extra Long Locks.”

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