With only niche directories, it is often easy for me to clear the queues of spammy submissions simply by reading the titles and the categories they submitted to. But, lately I've been seeing the spammers doing something that's quite clever... The title/link text matches my directory and is more frequently being submitted to a matching category. The description and other information has the real information for replica watches, fresh flowers or whatever junk they're trying to sell. It's killer clever as they've obviously determined way to many directory owners go no further than the title and category when approving sites. The spammer gets a link, albeit a weak one without their keywords of choice, and the directory owner misses the fact that they are approving a bunch of garbage. For the most part, the URL is stuffed with their targeted keywords making it still easy to spot this junk. But, that's not always the case either. Anyone else seeing this?
Because I use ban words, I see very little now a days, what they had been doing is submitting those sites in my Contact forms and comments section, when they do that I cannot tell what their IP when they use the contact form so that I can ban those IP's. Desperate as it may seem, but that's what spammers do.
Oh, I get quite a few coming in through the contact form - Chinese manufacturers and SEO company queries. The SEO folks think they're so clever. First they dump a bunch of unrelated submissions and then tell me that I'm not ranking as well as I should be and they could fix that - like I'm not supposed to figure out the same folks spamming me are the ones wanting to spam for me. I'd drop the contact form completely if it weren't for folks using it to ask to have their listings changed now and then.
Only spam, oh God what am I to do with them? They get me so irritated. I have some spam filter in my blog and still I see some retard who is submitting some queries of some client. I have decided that unless they have something really good written in their comments I will mark them as spam and send them right to the junk.