Where are the spammers?

Nov 17 2006

Posted by: biggandy, in Blogging, Computer

Is anybody out there?

I know I have readers. I get about 2,500 hits per month (not all of them are googlebots). People are clicking on my ads (Thank You everyone who has). FeedBurner reports that I even have subscribers. I notify nearly 40 update services when I publish a new article. I post my articles on all the message forums I frequent throughout the day. I get referrals from delicious, digg, technorati, google, and a host of others.

By most accounts my little blog and the tripe that I write about have a good start.

But where are the spammers???

In the 4 months that I have blogged with WordPress and akismet as the spam blocking software I have had only 119 spam attempts (no false positives and no missed spam attempts). The number of hits a blog has, the actual geographic reach, the number of return visitors, and the number of incoming links from other blogs are all measures of the health of the blog. But so are spam attempts I believe.

Now don’t get me wrong. A website that is getting hammered by spam is a bad thing. The reliability and bandwidth go down and sometimes people who want to get in don’t because the spammers are killing the site. But a healthy blog is going to have a certain number of spam attempts per day I would imagine. If a site is so small and so quiet in the blogosphere that the spammers don’t bother with it… well, we are known by the friends we keep and the enemies we accumulate. Coffee

Maybe I just need a cup of coffee.

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