Perceptint Musings

So lately, I’ve fallen completely off the blog wagon. Partly due to being busy with other things and partly due to needing a little bit of a jump start.

I’m also trying to make sure that when I publish something to the blog I believe in it 100% and I think it has value to anyone who might read it. Like I said early on, I don’t just want it to be a “commenting on the daily news” type of blog so it’s been a few weeks since I’ve had anything I thought was valuable to write about.

Until today, when I have to express my sheer frustration with blog spam. In the past two and a half weeks off, I have received over 60 comments on several of my posts. These aren’t comments that have anything to do with the topic, they don’t contribute anything to the conversation, and they are really starting to annoy me to no end.

So far, I’ve gotten comments from people pushing porn, gambling and ringtones. I had no idea that ringtones ran with such nefarious partners. Especially free ringtones. And I didn’t know that free ringtones needed so much help in advertising themselves. If your product is free, you’re halfway to producing a good transaction for someone looking for something free.

The comments that confuse me the most are the ones that appear to be full of gibberish and gibberish domains. Like a monkey sat down at a domain registrar and just registered every combination of keystrokes it could come up with.

If the best way to market yourself is to pretend to contribute to blogs or other sites you have nothing to do with, you really need to get outside more often. The Internet might be the wrong avenue for you. It’s like selling tickets to a street race and then showing people a documentary on butterflies.

So to all of you out there trying to monkey market your business, I say step away from the keyboard. I’m just a little old blog on the fringe of the web read by a few hundred people at best right now. If I’m a target, I can’t imagine what some of the blogs with larger audiences are sifting through.

Who’s with me on this? Is anyone else suffering from the burden of spam like I am? Let me know what you think and if you’ve had any horrible spam experiences to share with others.