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Open letter to blog spammers

Dear spammers.

You may think that because this blog has a commenting feature and a Google PageRank of 5, you have found the perfect advertising venue and will boost your moneymaking websites' pagerank by posting irrelevant comments and leaving your URLs here.

FYI, here is a list of anti-spam measures that are currently implemented on this blog:

1. I have a plugin to weed out spam comments that not only enables me to delete them, but to add your URL to a blacklist that is shared with the weblogging community, actively distributed to enable others to protect their blogs from your comments as well. I am using this plugin very actively and I will not leave your comment up no matter how nice your message sounds.

2. I upgraded the CMS i use to manage this blog so now URLs are not posted as is, but through a redirect which will prevent your URLs from receiving a Pagerank boost via my blog.

3. There are a few other spam prevention features that i won't go into more detail about, suffice it to say that you are wasting your time, or your robot's time by trying to fool me into believing you're a regular visitor who left a positive comment on my blog.

Please leave me alone, and go build a few legitimate affiliate pages or use valid SEO techniques instead of trying to outsmart others (which you won't). There are better - and more effective - ways to make money on the net. Trust me about that. :)

Thank you. (on behalf of the blogging community)