I thought everyone knew that Google killed the spam comment SEO trick. It seemed to me like the volume of comment spam had gone down over the past 6 months or so, but I’m noticing a lot more of it all of a sudden… including these gems promoting prom dresses:

The one that really surprised me was the last one, because it was disguised as a link to Sears – for half a moment I thought Sears had hired a spammy SEO consultant!