Comment spam is a constant pain and chore for anyone running a blog. The prospect of gaining links to their websites means that a mix of human and automated spam producers will keep submitting their comments packed with terrible content.
Spam filters (such as WordPress’s Akismet), Captchas and other tools can make life a lot easier. Or you can turn off comments either completely, or on posts older than a certain age, to keep everything to a manageable level.
But if you’re feeling bad, rest assured even the biggest company on the internet can make mistakes:
Yep, that’s the official Google Inside Adsense blog, packed full of useful information for publishers displaying the Adsense advertising platform. As an Adsense-powered publisher, I’m one of them.
It’s also a well-ranked and linked-to site, for obvious reasons. Which explains why any article in the archive is absolutely packed with spam comments. Just go back a few months (I started 12 months ago and went further back), and scroll through the 50+ comments on most posts. After the first few legitimate comments posted when the article went live, the rest will be spam comments posted far more recently, which means they’re obviously automatically published without any checks.
I checked out a couple of other official Google blogs (Did you know there’s a handy Google Blog Directory?), and most of the others are fine, having disabled comments after a set period of time.
Proof that even when you employ the likes of Matt Cutts, there can still be a slightly embarrassing oversight somewhere in the network!
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