Comments on: The 10 Commandments of Being a Courteous Comment Spammer http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/ All Things Related to Business Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Paul Simister http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-10143 Paul Simister Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:49:07 +0000 http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-10143 Great blog and oh so true. I can't believe the rubbish that people try to get away with posting on blogs so I introduced an official blog comment policy. Who wants to publish rubbish because all it does is encourage even more people to leave comment spam on blogs, creating a bigger and bigger problem. Proper commenting on blogs can help drive traffic to another site, either because the post is of such clear and obvious value the reader is impressed, the comment introduces the lure of extra RELEVANT information on another site and some blogs are even brave enough to use "do follow" tags to reward commentators who add value. Great blog and oh so true.

I can’t believe the rubbish that people try to get away with posting on blogs so I introduced an official blog comment policy.

Who wants to publish rubbish because all it does is encourage even more people to leave comment spam on blogs, creating a bigger and bigger problem.

Proper commenting on blogs can help drive traffic to another site, either because the post is of such clear and obvious value the reader is impressed, the comment introduces the lure of extra RELEVANT information on another site and some blogs are even brave enough to use “do follow” tags to reward commentators who add value.

]]> By: Muhibbuddin http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-9767 Muhibbuddin Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:18:18 +0000 http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-9767 @ ross. That's is state of the art of blogging :P @ ross.
That’s is state of the art of blogging :P

]]> By: Graeme Davidson http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-9687 Graeme Davidson Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:25:03 +0000 http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-9687 Absolutely brilliant post here. I myself have had a blog up and running now for around 6 months and most of the comments on it are reasonable......most. Some like to slag me off, and as you say some just say "Nice post" Thank you for the wonderful insight there! I find that I get a lot of "bot" spamming too and wonder where this all comes from. Of course, these are easily deleted and never cause me any concern (especially now I have added a plugin that seems to caused a major downturn in me getting these ridiculous "Buy Viagra cheap" comments). Creating an interesting community online should be what it is all about. For instance, I have just found your blog through searching for like minded professionals like myself and used the search term "new business blog" as I work for a digital agency and I am very interested to see what other new business individuals are blogging about each day. I have found your blog very interesting and shall reading all of your back-issues lol. Cheers Graeme Absolutely brilliant post here. I myself have had a blog up and running now for around 6 months and most of the comments on it are reasonable……most.
Some like to slag me off, and as you say some just say “Nice post” Thank you for the wonderful insight there!

I find that I get a lot of “bot” spamming too and wonder where this all comes from. Of course, these are easily deleted and never cause me any concern (especially now I have added a plugin that seems to caused a major downturn in me getting these ridiculous “Buy Viagra cheap” comments).

Creating an interesting community online should be what it is all about. For instance, I have just found your blog through searching for like minded professionals like myself and used the search term “new business blog” as I work for a digital agency and I am very interested to see what other new business individuals are blogging about each day.

I have found your blog very interesting and shall reading all of your back-issues lol.

Cheers

Graeme

]]> By: Ross http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-8668 Ross Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:40:23 +0000 http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-8668 Also irritating is comments that contain links only and nothing else. I had a blog several years ago. Someone somehow got a hold of my blog and would just spam it with links. The blog was moderated but it still took me quite a while to delete the spam. I would get about 50 or so posts a day. That was so irritating. Also irritating is comments that contain links only and nothing else. I had a blog several years ago. Someone somehow got a hold of my blog and would just spam it with links. The blog was moderated but it still took me quite a while to delete the spam. I would get about 50 or so posts a day. That was so irritating.

]]> By: Megan http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-8342 Megan Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:35:35 +0000 http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-8342 This was a hoot! As a new intern in James Brausch's program, I looked at his video for today's procedure on commenting on blogs and came to yours. Imagine my surprise - and my amusement - at the blog entry that greeted my eyes! I too, have read some blogs where the comment is completely off-post and irrelevant, Kudos to you for your 10 Commandments! This was a hoot! As a new intern in James Brausch’s program, I looked at his video for today’s procedure on commenting on blogs and came to yours. Imagine my surprise - and my amusement - at the blog entry that greeted my eyes! I too, have read some blogs where the comment is completely off-post and irrelevant, Kudos to you for your 10 Commandments!

]]> By: Wolf Halton http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-8095 Wolf Halton Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:43:54 +0000 http://www.thenewbusinessblog.com/traffic/the-10-commandments-of-being-a-courteous-comment-spammer/#comment-8095 Hi Brian! I loved this post. I never, ever get blog spam. I guess I am not famous enough to be different. Only one person ever made a comment at all. I have anti-blog-spammed you. How that works is that I have already added you to my blog-roll, and I do not want a reciprocal link. Google isn't fooled by reciprocal links at all, and they don't count as "incoming" if they are reciprocal. This being the case, I am not going to tell you the name of my blog, you can probably find it by searching your own name in quotes. There you are, on the first page of my blog above James Brausch, who is my only other linked business blog. I do not have a reciprocal from Brausch either. The way this game would be played is that you now go promote a site where your url is not displayed, and ask that site owner to do the same. Or, you ask a friend to mention MY blog when or if you find it. These links are then all seen by google as incoming/nonreciprocal Regards, Wolf PS If you actually find my blog and for some unlikely reason "Want to post there" do not use a return URI or my efforts here are for nothing. Of course you could just delete this anti-spam immediately. :-) Hi Brian!
I loved this post. I never, ever get blog spam. I guess I am not famous enough to be different. Only one person ever made a comment at all. I have anti-blog-spammed you. How that works is that I have already added you to my blog-roll, and I do not want a reciprocal link. Google isn’t fooled by reciprocal links at all, and they don’t count as “incoming” if they are reciprocal. This being the case, I am not going to tell you the name of my blog, you can probably find it by searching your own name in quotes. There you are, on the first page of my blog above James Brausch, who is my only other linked business blog. I do not have a reciprocal from Brausch either.
The way this game would be played is that you now go promote a site where your url is not displayed, and ask that site owner to do the same. Or, you ask a friend to mention MY blog when or if you find it. These links are then all seen by google as incoming/nonreciprocal

Regards,
Wolf

PS If you actually find my blog and for some unlikely reason “Want to post there” do not use a return URI or my efforts here are for nothing. Of course you could just delete this anti-spam immediately. :-)

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