Sometimes you will get a comment on your blog like the one below:

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New comment on your post “SEO: youtube videos – getting more hits.”
Author : ewaikuai.com (IP: 142.91.79.47 , 142.91.79.47.rdns.ubiquity.io)
E-mail : april.vaught@zoho.com
URL : http://ewaikuai.com/Shownews.asp?id=73
Whois : http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/142.91.79.47
Comment:
I’ve been browsing online greater than three hours nowadays, but I never discovered any attention-grabbing article like yours. It is pretty worth sufficient for me. Personally, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content as you probably did, the web shall be much more useful than ever before.
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The comment message is all flattery – I am amazing; I feel wonderful, thank you.

The reality is if you accept this comment (moderate it) and make it live on your site, you’ll be giving the comment author permission to post more. You don’t want that.

• Look at the email address – It’s a bizarre name – possible computer generated.
• Look at the website address – it’s a weird url that makes no sense as to what the site is about.
• The message has no context for me (as author) or the blog, or the blog post.
• There is no ‘hello’ or ‘hi’ introduction
• There is no goodbye salutation

Everything screams spam; everything screams delete.

I do this frequently, but I also see other blog sites where these comments are accepted. If you want to keep your website safe on-line, please raise your own safety levels.

The advice I tell my Dad is:

All messages are spam (email, comments, mobile texts – all of them – responding to any will give you a virus and kill your computer/phone). They are only ever not spam, when they have the following:

• they are from someone you know
• talking about something you’re aware of
• and making reference to you directly by anything other than your name.

Heed these 3 little rules and your spam alert shield will be set to maximum!

This ends my public service announcement 🙂

Mark