This subject has been covered a million times, but not on my blog so I figured I would write a post on how to blog comment correctly. A lot of you may or may not already know but I am going to give my 2 cents on the subject.
Spam Comments
Nice post, great points, wow this is interesting, and basically that has to do nothing about my post. You don’t reference anything, your just spamming me (other blog owners know what I am talking about). But, hey the spammers figure the ones that get accepted will help me in the search engines. I don’t know about that since Google has been combating spam, and you’re going to be seeing big time ways to tell if you are spamming in the near feature.
More Sophisticated Spam
These comments are something like, I have saved this for my brother to read, or wow this post actually helped me on a paper I working on, or I am bookmarking this now for future reference. These are generated by Scrapebox a good tool but used incorrectly. Here is how I feel about Scrapebox if you want to find good relevant blogs to leave comments, check indexed pages, ect. that’s all fine and dandy. But, if you are going to spam the living crap out of people then you suck. Scrapebox is equivalent to going to the doctor because you have pain. The doctor prescribes you painkillers. You take them for a week or two and have no more pain. Then you go have more pills and just use them to get high on. Also, going back to the doctor faking pain so you can get more pills.
I bet no one has ever explained Scrapebox like that to you! What can I say guess I am just a cunning little crested gecko. Speaking of geckos they are the masters of sneaking up on you. I love it! Oh just wait until you see my blog on leopard gecko’s; it is so awesome!
DoFollow and NoFollow
Ok technically only commenting on DoFollow blogs isn’t good as Google sees it. Mix it up even if you’re leaving good quality comments. To much of a good things trip algo flags and you do not want that. If you got something good to add just say it.
Link Dropping Spam
This was a really good post and here is my link. I hate that stuff. In fact, this is probably one of the things that bloggers really don’t care to much for. Why don’t you take the time to contact the blogger and say something like I really liked post A and and I would be happy to retweet and like your post on Facebook, but would you consider putting my link in your post. A little goes a long way trust me!
Commenting Velocity
Think about it if you leave all 60 comments 1 day because you got a Five Hour Energy (although I recommend Red Rain because it’s so much cheaper) and then don’t do anything else the rest of the month Google might see that as just spam commenting. Space it out, read some stuff on Twitter, Facebook, really engage with people rather than going the all in one day approach.
The Bottom Line of Scam Commenting
There are so many plugins now that combat spam, but there are also idiots out there that develop ways to get around them. For all those that get spammed you should be proud because it means you are doing everything correctly. So try not to get to worked up about comment spam.
Just got this on a comment for this post:
“I am never sure if I should use the name @ keyword for my name on sites that do not have the premium commentluv plugin installed. Not sure if they feel the extra keyword in the name is spam.” <—-spam
“The optimum benefit is it safeguards the muscles from the ft. By placing for this shoe you can find respite from a myriad of discomfort although walking. with 1 of such footwear on calories will get burnt with a massive degree consequently which it truly is possible to you’ll be able to walk.”<—–spam
“Thanks for any nice blog. It was valuable for us. Keep writing such ideas in the future as very well. This was actually what precisely I needed, and My group is glad to came listed here! Thanks with regard to sharing all the such information around.”<—–spam
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Submitted on 2012/11/16 at 8:49 pm
Thanks for the effort you took to expand upon this post so thoroughly. I will keep it in my RSS.
I will look forward to your future posts.
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Submitted on 2012/11/16 at 8:43 pm
Thanks for the effort you took to expand upon this post so thoroughly. I will keep it in my RSS.
I will look forward to your future posts.
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Submitted on 2012/11/16 at 6:40 pm
Thanks for the effort you took to expand upon this post so thoroughly. I will keep it in my RSS.
I will look forward to your future posts.
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These are all valid ways to post a good comment. I hate it when I get those, “Great Post!” comments. You always know that those people are just trying to get the link!
Read the post and then make an educated comment based on the topic.
Oh, btw,….great post. lol!
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Great post – SORRY only joking, comment spam is really annoying at the moment and i catch hundreds every day.
I like the ones where they have bookmarked it to read later or share with friends and then added more spam links in the comment.
If the comment is not related to the post i just hit delete.
Hey Garen,
I’m sure your readers need to know this and it’s good thing you have finally written about it. What I mean is, though the subject has been covered elsewhere, it’s still important you covered it here. Did you notice you just did it differently?
One thing I really hate are bloggers who don’t have a gravatar. I can accept that from non bloggers who visit and leave a comment not from folks who are in the field. Many don’t still know how important this is
Yeah at a glance if I just see generic gravtar I usually overlook it and it joins the rest of my spam comments.
Spamming became such a problem for my blog that I had to completely move away from default WordPress commenting system with CommentLuv Premium, despite it’s great features my spam and moderation rates were too time consuming.
Livefyre for about a year did a much better job, but then in recent months Livefyre started receiving more spam as well. I also had some user complaints about the system and needed some other features Livefyre didn’t have yet.
I have since switched to Disqus 2012 about 2 weeks ago, with it set to hold a comment for moderation if anyone posts a URL in the comment. My spam levels have gone down considerably and commenting is still about the same level it was with Livefyre but overall less than CLP but remember 80% of comments were spam anyway with CLP so overall the engagement level is higher.
Over the 4 years of blogging I could care less anymore about giving DoFollow links to commenters, I used to care about this to drive comments to my site but in the end they did little to provide growth to my site and just reward commenters for links. Now I just focus on engagement across blog and into Social Media, engagement is key and not comments. Find whatever method works best to reduce spam and moderation time and use that extra time to create content and engage on Social Media I say.
Yeah, I too use Disqus, which can be found on http://guestpost.deaddogdesign.net/too-good-to-be-true-links/ (my business blog). Don’t really have much there yet and only write a post once every other week.
Yeah I could care less about dofollow too. Think of it this way if SEO is your goal and all you have is dofollow links (keyworded) don’t you think Google is going to raise some flags.
When I was first learning (by experience) to recognize spam, I was surprised to find some comments that were brief extracts from my own blog! Gave me a prickly sense of deja vu. Thanks for covering this subject — spam is not only annoying, it is bad for your reputation as a blogger.
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Yeah a lot of bloggers that are new think oh “this blog is getting better and better” is a legit comment however it’s not. It’s basically, just people using Scrapebox.