Spam blog commenting

From what I read blog spamming seems to becoming more of a problem as more and more people put up spam blogs or clutter up genuine Blogs (like this one!) with comments that attempt to entice you to their website or to gain from your website page ranking. The idea is that they lodge a comment on your blog (which of course is one of the great social networking benefits of Blogging) but in it include a link to their own website which is usually completely unrelated to the original site.

The problem has been partly solved by Blogger and other blog tools automatically implementing the nofollow tag in all comments so that the links from your Blog comments do not contribute to their search engine ranking, and they've also introduced word verification steps where you have to retype a displayed word before you can leave a comment.

I guess my little Blog is getting more popular as I've been increasingly getting more blog spam posted as comments. So far I thought it would be easier for the reader if I didn't turn Blogger's comment verification on, but may have to change my mind about this decision if I'm inundated with spam.

Today I found eight comments on the Blog which when I first saw them I thought they were genuine and nice feedback comments. It's only after I read them a bit closer that I realised they were clearly spam as some of them were very similar, they were completely irrelevant and they were posted to a set of Blog entries from January to February.

For your amusement, here's what they said:

Hey, you have a great blog here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you!
I have a internet banner advertising site/blog. It pretty much covers internet banner advertising related stuff.
Come and check it out if you get time :-)

Hi thanks for your blog, I liked it! I also have a blog/site about advertising firm that covers advertising firm related stuff. Please feel free to visit.

Hi Thanks for your interesting blog. I also have a blog/site, covering advertising solution related stuff. Feel free to visit my advertising solution site.

Hey, you have a great blog here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you!
I have a orlando advertising site/blog. It pretty much covers orlando advertising related stuff.

I just came across your blog and wanted to drop you a note telling you how impressed I was with the information you have posted here.
I also have a web site & blog about yellow page advertising so I know what I'm talking about when I say your site is top-notch!
Keep up the great work!

Hi Thanks for your interesting blog. I also have a blog/site, covering advertising standard related stuff.
Feel free to visit my advertising standard site.

And my personal favourite is:

Hi Thanks for your interesting blog. I also have a blog/site, covering advertising inflatable related stuff. Feel free to visit my advertising inflatable site.

They were all linked to the same (extremely dull) website. I've now deleted all these comments but please let me know if you really want the address of where you can get details of Orlando/inflatable/yellow page advertising ...