First off, I must say, “I DON’T RECOMMEND SEO SABOTAGE”. This is merely an idea that struck me. As bloggers, you are advised to allow comments and make it easy for your readers to do so. The idea is that if you can get a decent conversation added to the end, it’s more SEO opportunity. More relevant conversation with more relevant keywords with little extra effort on your part.
But what if this was used against you? What if I stuff my comments with keywords that mislead search engines in some way. What if your post is about baseball bats and I intelligently word my comment to appear that I am talking about baseball bats, but I slip in some references to bats, as in the animal. You think I’m having a relevant conversation with you and being a little witty. However, with a little help from other parties, other responders make reference to my comment. Now the stage has turned and the search engine spider sees two topics equally represented and this drives the relevance of each slightly down.
How far down does it have to drive the relevance to matter? I guess that depends. We all know that being in the first search position can mean much more traffic and revenue than the second search position, but how much does that really amount to when you’re talking about blog posts? Would you take offense to someone using SEO sabotage through blog comments on you? Would it really move the needle enough for you to spend your energy to combat it?
