{"id":40,"date":"2011-09-14T18:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-09-14T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T22:57:37","slug":"the-spam-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"THE spam post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m amused that there appears to be 1 type of spam comment that is used over and over again to try to generate traffic to a website.  I&#8217;ve gotten 6 of these &#8220;comments&#8221; on this blog already.  The first one I wondered if it was a real comment but delayed on clicking on the link due to suspicion.  After the second one I resolved to neither click on the link, nor approve any such comment.<\/p>\n<p>They all have this text followed by a link:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nice post. I learn something more challenging on different blogs everyday. It will always be stimulating to read content from other writers and practice a little something from their store. I\u2019d prefer to use some with the content on my blog whether you don\u2019t mind. Natually I\u2019ll give you a link on your web blog. Thanks for sharing [link]. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A quick google search shows that these comments appear to be everywhere, and not just on new blogs just starting out.  I wonder if they work.  I was tempted to click on the link and I&#8217;m super suspicious of links in general; I&#8217;m sure less suspicious people would click without thinking.  I wonder thought what the benefit is of these comments? If the website it links to is junk it&#8217;s not like it will generate meaningful revenue unless you are tricking users into click on ads somehow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m amused that there appears to be 1 type of spam comment that is used over and over again to try to generate traffic to a website. I&#8217;ve gotten 6 of these &#8220;comments&#8221; on this blog already. The first one I wondered if it was a real comment but delayed on clicking on the link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}