Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

 [Dr. K] Fear, loathing, and perfunctory seduction: I've been going through the comments and changing the spam URLs to sensible ones .while doing so I've tracked down some of the blogs that are also being spammed or quoted - there are some real gems - this is more fun than technorati

[the LOOSE wire blog] The Anger of the Blogger Spammed: (Comment spam/blogspam/linkspam is when individuals automate posting of comments on blogs to build traffic and Google rankings by having links to their sites on other sites. Some comment spam is just gibberish, but would still boost Google rankings because of the links contained somewhere in the comment, while others pretend to be legitimate comments.)

 [The Second Mouse Gets the Cheese] Welcome Lockergnome Readers!: Blogger’s spam-flagging system is so vague (it’s just a button that says, “Flag?”), new users may think they’re clicking on something that will “flag” the blog for their own future reading—the way it works in an e-mail reader.

 [ Notes, links and conversation] Hunting spamblogs: Without any doubt, blog search services like Pubsub and Technorati definitely should include in their own interfaces as well an easy way for their users to report spamblogs (like you can report spam in Yahoo of Gmail), but centralised, independent “blogspam reservoirs” such as http://del.icio.us/tag/spamblog or http://www.furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=spamblog could help all of them and would definitely be a step forward from sending an email to feedback@, which is the procedure now.

 [Ann Elisabeth's blog] Foiling the spammers: I followed one of the URL's that got through before I blocked access for the spammer. That URL led to a maze of stuff, that eventually leads to porn affiliate programs.

[AdLand ad-rag commercial archive :: by the adgrunts for the adgrunts advertising blog commercial archive] Bzzagent doing everything wrong - comment spam... : In yesterdays adcritic email Jim quipped sarcastically:"A lot of bloggers are, um, buzzing about the cover story in yesterday's New York Times Magazine about Boston word-of-mouth firm BzzAgent. We assume this is because they are all secretly working for the company." You can check Technorati to see how many people blogged that NYT article.

 [Blogherald.com] » Outing a comment spammer The Blog Herald: more blog news more often: that created the software package called Blog Submitter Pro, I would put into the category of being a comment spammer. Maybe she doesn’t use her own product, but she’s getting it into the hands of very naive folks who think it to be an easy way to up their SEO rankings.

[Jluster.org] Jonas Luster » blogspam: He doesn’t want spam and he wants and easily commented blog. 1 A new SPAMmer on the horizon Tagged as blogspam, posted on Monday, March 7th, 2005.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Blogspam, Seo, Comment Spam, Blog Spam, Targeting Spam