I think every blogger who has even a little bit of traffic can agree with me here - ENOUGH WITH THE BLOG SPAM BOTS.

I got an email the other day from a fairly well know black hat SEO requesting that we stop one of our affiliates from blog spamming. It seems that the level of spam comments that the SEO was receiving was killing his blog servers.

We of course were happy to oblige in getting the blog spammer to stop.

Let me just say this, as a company who blogs, we ask that you do not use blog spamming as a tool to increase your rankings in the search engines. We ask this for two reasons:

1. Blog spamming is poor form and is really disruptive to people and companies who take the time to blog
2. BLOG SPAMMING DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE ALMOST EVERY BLOG USES THE REL="NOFOLLOW" TAG

I mean, seriously. If you are smart enough to make a bot, you should be smart enough to know you are making a pointless bot.

Since all of these links have rel="nofollow" you get no juice from any of the major search engines. So the time you have spent building the comments is truly wasted. If you are out there black-hatting, please spend your time on something more worthwhile - like cloaking or something :)

Get more information on the rel="nofollow" tag here.

And here Matt Cutt's take on blog spam here.

[Note: InsureMe does not promote any black hat SEO tricks. We think that the best way to optimize your site is to simply develop a web site, allow it to build a natural online community, create great content, and then sit back and wait a few years for Google to rank you appropriately. Have a nice weekend]