There’s a form of spam only bloggers have to worry about: “ping spam.” What’s a ping, and how does it get spammed? Here’s a recent example of a ping sent my way. It happens automatically when one blog mentions another one in a blog post. Ping some other blog from your own, and a link to your web page shows up in their comments. It’s a great way to connect conversations from one blog to another. It’s also spammer’s dream. If they ping my blog, a link to their page shows up in my comments, and you, the ever-responsive reader, can visit their page and buy that hybrid Honda they’ve been aching to sell.
We have software to deal with ping spam. Obvious spam gets stopped cold, but the software sends doubtful pings through for the blogger to “approve.” Hybrid Hondas are about the worst thing I’ve seen it send through for evaluation, thankfully.
This morning my all-time favorite ping spam showed up. It was marvelous. Have you ever seen such depth of thought and insight?
Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!
Shame, shame, shame on those nasty search engines! How could I disagree with that? How could I not approve such insightful analysis? 
If only I could believe the same thing hadn’t been sent to a few thousand other blogs…
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I’m really loving this spammer. The latest, from the same source:
What was that “great resource”? It was my note on turning off automatic scripture references. This spammer is trying way too hard to flatter.
And this very post got ping-spammed from “Latest Ping-Pong Yarns Auctions,” whatever that might be (I didn’t click the link to find out).
And this very post got ping-spammed from “Latest Ping-Pong Yarns Auctions,” whatever that might be (I didn’t click the link to find out).
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Cute, Anthony. Got any iPhones for sale there?
I get these comments all the time. When I first built my website I didn’t understand that these were spam. Then I started feeling “funny” about the general nature of these comments. “Nice blog post! I learned a lot.” Can be sent to just about any blog and be applicable. I would be embarrassed to have a bunch of these showing on my blog now!