Has Google wised up?

I remember back when there were a ton of spammers at syndk8 which used Blog Spam.

But recently I noticed a drop and I assumed Google wised up by now, is this still true or can I use blog spam as a BH method and still not get penalized for it?

The reason I'm asking is because of phynder's post:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=123114&page=2

 

Most blog owners will delete spam. if you are going to get anything favorable from blogs, then it's from Trusted blogs, and the owners of these trusted blogs are quick and intelligent enough to have spam control and delete spam and block your IP.....Most blogs use the no follow tag anyway


But, posting blog comments (good ones) does bring you traffic so....

 

I'm talking about whether Google will detect it as spam and penalize your website for it?

 

Well, if you post the same comment in 1000 blogs, and link to your site with the same anchor and post them all within small amount of time... I'm sure they have a way to find it out...and penalize you. But otherwise how'd google know your link is relevant or not (given you do spam a SEO blog to promote your SEo services).

I mean, blogs are discussion places...just like forums and google has no way to say if the link you posted in a forum discussion is spam or not and if you should be penalized unless they find something suspiscious like....sudden spike in link popularity, all coming from same forums, same context, same anchor text...IMO

 

Yeah I thought so, I mean I can't provide any solid proof, but of course it's kind of like common sense..

I also remember it on a Matt Cutts Interview on WebmasterRadio, but don't want to track it down....

 

You do make a good point, but what if the blog is just starting out and all of a sudden there's spam everywhere?

 

most spam WILL be removed by the blog owner. the stuff that sneaks by them will have a nofollow tag... also it's logical that most SE algos will recognize a sudden spike in backlinks, all from blog comments, all the same anchor text(s), all pointing to the same landing pages.

If you're dead set on spamming then go for:
- referal spam
- email spam

You'll probably get more out of it.

If you want to save everyone the headaches of dealing with spam, visit on-topic forums and offer CASH to big posters to put your link in their sig.

You'll get THOUSANDS of links, good text, on topic and no spam complaints.

my 2c.

 

Problem with blog spamming is that, last i heard, it still helps for MSN and Yahoo, as they tend to overrate the number of incoming links, whereas Google looks more at the quality of the incoming links.

Next to that, a lot of blog software programs have started using rel="nofollow" on links in comments, as one of the ways to prevent spam from having a use.