Comment Spam

On Monday I got a comment posted to another blog I write on. The comment:

Has anyone out there heard about WideCircles.com. It seems like a way better service then regular pay per click. Apparently they are using refering websites ( forums, blogs, wiki, etc. ) and have a viral word of mouth distributed approach to it which is engaging rather ther then interrupting customers. My friend told me he got over 500 visits from single post which cost him around $0.40c, within a few days. I am going to give them a try today . In case you are intrested here is it. http://widecircles.com?imt=3

And then I got another. And then another. And then another. Inside one minute I got 5 of them. Then, I started getting them on this blog. Ah, comment spam. Someone else out there got themselves a blog comment spam program and is out to make themselves infamous.

For kicks I decided to give the site they referenced a look. WideCircles, the source of the blog comment spam, coins themselves a viral marketing company. According to their cover story:

WideCircles represents relevant, distributed, highly targeted and efficient internet word of mouth marketing using entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion. Utilizing global human publishing power combined with our unique computer software algorithms and systems we can track and deliver large amounts of relevant internet traffic to your website quickly and help with your SEO process by building intelligent links.

What it really means: WideCircles crack team of ignorant spammers will ruin your company’s reputation online—just as soon as they get done ruining their own.

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