If You’re Gonna Leave a Comment, Don’t Make it Obvious That You’re Spamming or Linking
I’ve noticed an interesting trend on a lot of blogs I maintain. When a user leaves a comment, it’s a half-ways good comment, but they input a name or link that is clearly a junk site that they’re trying to drive traffic to.
I’m sure any of you that have blogs or leave comments may have seen, or done the same. Why do I have a beef with this?
Well, here’s my point. I usually look at the comment first. A lot of these comments look good on the surface. They don’t seem like spam. They are comments that I normally might like to approve and make available for the world to see. Such as:
very useful article. I would love to follow you on twitter.
Short and sweet, but not an offensive comment and something I’d like approve in the moderation queue. So yeah, you’ve got me at that point. I’m almost going to approve your comment.
Then I look at the name of the person that posted the comment:
“discount amazon”
Great. This is now an obvious blog comment spammer. You were looking so promising, but you blew it when you put your keywords as your name on a blog that isn’t even a do-follow blog! Waste of energy. Nice try.
So yeah, most of my blogs are not do-follow, but a lot of idiots put comments in hoping that it is. I’m not gonna publish those comments. Sorry guys. At least put a legit looking name, then I might think twice. The keywords aren’t gonna do you any good, so why bother?
It’s probably just uneducated Internet marketers, but oh well.
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