Comments on: When commenting on blogs goes wrong http://www.sebastienpage.com/2008/10/01/when-commenting-on-blogs-goes-wrong/ Adventures in Online Entrepreneurship Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Advice to Using “Dofollow” Blogs, Forums and Social Bookmarking Sites « The Blog of the Legendary Jonty Bloomer http://www.sebastienpage.com/2008/10/01/when-commenting-on-blogs-goes-wrong/#comment-129079 Advice to Using “Dofollow” Blogs, Forums and Social Bookmarking Sites « The Blog of the Legendary Jonty Bloomer Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:42:19 +0000 http://www.sebastienpage.com/?p=328#comment-129079 [...] Sebastien Page explains how he deals with comments to his blog: The moral of this story is that if you have a blog, you will always expose yourself to spamming. I get a lot of spam every day (especially on the iPhone Download Blog – which by the way reached over 8,000 people yesterday!) and if it is too flagrant that it is spam (like “I love your blog, thank you so much”), I simply delete the comment and mark it as spam. If the comment is somewhat genuine and the URL is the one of a personal blog, I approve it. If the comment is somewhat genuine and shows the URL of a foreign currency exchange type-of-website, I just edit the comment and remove the link. Doing this, I don’t give the SEO juice to the spammer but I keep the community feel of my blog alive. Because that’s what blogging is all about: telling what you think and also being able to hear what others are thinking. [...] [...] Sebastien Page explains how he deals with comments to his blog: The moral of this story is that if you have a blog, you will always expose yourself to spamming. I get a lot of spam every day (especially on the iPhone Download Blog – which by the way reached over 8,000 people yesterday!) and if it is too flagrant that it is spam (like “I love your blog, thank you so much”), I simply delete the comment and mark it as spam. If the comment is somewhat genuine and the URL is the one of a personal blog, I approve it. If the comment is somewhat genuine and shows the URL of a foreign currency exchange type-of-website, I just edit the comment and remove the link. Doing this, I don’t give the SEO juice to the spammer but I keep the community feel of my blog alive. Because that’s what blogging is all about: telling what you think and also being able to hear what others are thinking. [...]

]]> By: KJ http://www.sebastienpage.com/2008/10/01/when-commenting-on-blogs-goes-wrong/#comment-481 KJ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:29:17 +0000 http://www.sebastienpage.com/?p=328#comment-481 Love the post! I wish I had some spammy comments... mine is new so I suppose it will take time for the spammers to find me. LOL! Love the post! I wish I had some spammy comments… mine is new so I suppose it will take time for the spammers to find me. LOL!

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