Talk about your highs and lows of being a blogger.
Someone sent me a link to a blog, that mentions me. Here's how the other blogger starts his item:
'I am reading Steve Crescenzo's blog. Steve's blog just got my aggregator. Steve is posting a question, 'Are you network worthy?''
He then goes on to talk about my post in a very intelligent fashion . . .which I thought was pretty damn cool.
So of course I went back to the item later on, to see if it sparked a good discussion. I mean, when an item you wrote can spark discussion on someone else's blog, that's probably the ultimate compliment for a blogger.
And sure enough, there was a comment in the comment section!! Happy Day!! Hurray for Steve, the champion blogger who is generating debate and intelligent conversation all over the blogosphere!! Drinks are on me!
And then I read the comment. Here it is, in its entirety:
'Our penis enlargement specialists has conducted extensive research of a number of different penis enlargement techniques, penis enlargement pills and natural penis enlargement programs. Our goal is to find sensible and sustainable ways for enlarge your penis based on a long-term basis. webmaster@penis-enlargement-methods.net.'
Now I'm all nervous that there's some sort of 'spider' or 'aggregator' or 'RSS thingamagiggy' that is forever going to link 'Steve Crescenzo's Blog' with 'direct-mail opportunity for penis enlargement pills' and those ads are going to start popping up (no pun intended) whenever my name appears on the Web.
Comments (10)
Crunzo: It's called comment spam and its purpose is to increase the penil site's ranking on various search engines. And it's something that's been written of over and over and over and over again in the dead-tree and online media.
by the way, by quoting the comment spam (including the address for the penil site), you've helped increase that site's search engine ranking.
Posted by Pete | March 18, 2005 10:37 AM
Posted on March 18, 2005 10:37
My favorite part of this was in the comments from the Tejas blogger - especially his last line:
"What do you look for when you are networking with people (what qualities)?"
Makes that spam response (and add me to the ranks of those who had never heard of "comment spam" prior to Pete's note) drop dead hilarious.
SN
Posted by S Neruda | March 18, 2005 11:18 AM
Posted on March 18, 2005 11:18
Pete:
I'll be a son of a bitch. Comment spam. Well . . . of course. I guess that was bound to happen. Should we cut off this thread right now . . . or is it already too late?
Steve
P.S. This Pete must be the great Pete Shinbach. He knows about all things online. Is that you, Pete?
Posted by steve C. | March 18, 2005 12:02 PM
Posted on March 18, 2005 12:02
Or else Big Brother really does know all ;)
Posted by Meredith | March 21, 2005 12:19 PM
Posted on March 21, 2005 12:19
DATE: 03/22/2005 23:04:0P PM
Steve, you'll be happy to know that if I google or yahoo your name, the first two pages do not refer to any "odd subject matter".
You're safe.
Posted by Rebecca, Julie's friend | October 16, 2006 4:31 PM
Posted on October 16, 2006 16:31
DATE: 03/22/2005 28:53:3P PM
Am I the only one who wondered what showed up on the THIRD page?
SN
Posted by Steve Neruda | October 16, 2006 4:31 PM
Posted on October 16, 2006 16:31
DATE: 03/22/2005 29:30:3P PM
Hee...I wasn't trying to be misleading, there is nothing terrible on the 3rd page. Most people find what they are looking for on the first two pages of a google search.
Posted by Rebecca, Julie's friend | October 16, 2006 4:31 PM
Posted on October 16, 2006 16:31
DATE: 05/09/2005 21:13:7P PM
U'll be happy to know that if you search the first part of the comment string Google brings up 522 sites, none of which make any reference to you Steve... lol!
The good part is that all links to the commenters... ah, lets say 'anatomy enhancing website' are dead links, as in '404 page not found'.... now, if the same thing would only happen to the other kazillion search engine spammers out there, things like blogs, comments, forums, websites and actual search results might be a thing of value once again!
me, myself and my alter ego...
Posted by colin | October 16, 2006 4:31 PM
Posted on October 16, 2006 16:31
I dont know but why i don find such informative and profitable blogs so often,I suspect blogging world
is becoming so small that we cant find such lucrative blogs like this one.
Posted by david | July 13, 2007 3:57 PM
Posted on July 13, 2007 15:57
The good part is that all links to the commenters...good say
Posted by vigrxhome | August 2, 2007 2:44 AM
Posted on August 2, 2007 02:44