GoDaddy Fanboy?
A comment was posted on one of my older posts about leaving GoDaddy for WebFaction.
“I have 100 domains on Godaddy and i can say that this company is very reputable.’~'”
It seemed pretty innocuous, although the domain it pointed to had no content. I was about to approve it when I decided to run a quick Google search. The search showed that this exact quote was posted to various blogs over 300 hundred times and the commenter used a different name on each site.
I’m not sure what the commenter was up to, but I can think of a few theories. First, it could be a naive person thinking they can get a little “Google goodwill” for their site with links from a bunch of comments. Not likely, since their site is missing content. Of course, maybe their going to throw up some questionable content later after the comments get approved. Second, it could be a GoDaddy fanboy, who just loves GoDaddy so much that he/she must refute our tales of woe. But, I doubt it. Rabid fans are usually more wordy.
Needless to say, I marked it as spam and tossed it in the trash.
What are your thoughts?
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May 6th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
“I have 4 domains on Go Daddy and I can say that this company is not very reputable.”
I’ve gotten a couple comments like that before. I also dismiss them without thinking twice. I usually don’t Google for other blogs they post on though.