I wake up this morning and check through my email and here what I got as a message requiring moderation (from wordpress): Isn't that weird? What would this guy be trying to attempt? especially note the use of rel="nofollow"... That's not for search engine, but how could it be for new visitors, my website is not related to is website by any possible way...
There's a lot of weird blog spam out there - some seems like people trying to track which blogs will publish the comments automatically, others seem like script kiddies having a laugh.
Yeah, there are a lot of techniques like that... and also there are people with less "attention" I think. I have received spam with 5 links... the only link with nofolow tag was in fact the promoted link (the other links are to imdb, google and such). I think they are misconfiguring the spam software they use (at least I think they use a software or something like that)