Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

I was just reading a blog that talked about one website that had its ranking affected by the fact that there were spam messages in the comment section of the website. Not only did the spam messages not pertain to the business but they were porn related. As many websites allow for comments to made, is this the threat to rankings that is alluded to in the blog I read?

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

IMO yes.. and i always delete spam comments in my blog, especially the non relevant one

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

Use anti spam tools like akismat/spam karma 2, this will automatically kill most of the spams.

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

Yes. Spam comments can hurt you. In addition to the negative impacts to your site quality, Google recently announced that even no-follow links bleed PR.

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

It is funny that you mention akismat because in the original piece I read they talked about the spammers, especially the porn spammers, were becoming more sophisticated and had found some ways around the anti spam tools and they references akismat by name.

The problem I am running into now, and unfortunately no technical fix will help, is that my client is not keen on the idea of allowing visters to their blogs and website leave comments as they want total control over anything negative (instead of addressing each issue as it comes) and the thought that spammers can affect their sites will push them over the edge. I guess along with managing expectations some of us have to also managed fear and anxiety.

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

I have an option in one of my blogs where I hae to authorize every single comment. Some of legits but the majority are spam. I never authorize them. It is time consuming but it helps.

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

Well, after launching your blog and enabling the commenting option, a constant moderating and maintenance is going to be needed because many of the links people add to their posts might be pointing at low quality sites which need to be edited sometimes.

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

Spam commenting is definitely affect your website's ranking so check them and remove irrelevant comments.

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

yes, i believe that spam comments can hurt your site, if google or any search engine seen your site with a lot of irrelevant link, they will delete it.

Re: Can Spam comments on your website hurt your ranking?
 

Avoid spamming. It will really have a negative effect on your site.