Dave, Help! My Weblog is drowning in these seemingly nonsensical postings from people that have nothing to do with my discussion, yet don’t actually point to any sort of existing Web site or even a valid e-mail address. On the assumption that they’re not doing it just to annoy me, why would they bother to spam my Weblog with this kind of stuff?

Ah, blogspam (or, if you will, comment spam).

One of the banes of running a Weblog, unfortunately, and as more spammers realize the value of inbound links from Google (which I talk about in How does Google figure out what pages are more relevant? Pagerank, if you’re interested), we’ll probably see more people spamming Weblogs.

[Continued at Ask Dave Taylor!]