Blog Comments – How to Leave Blog Comments that Get Published

Keith
#1. February 20th, 2010, at 12:16 AM.

Hey man, great post….. uh ….. what did you write about again…. any way keep up the great work!

I really like to get comments on my site(s), but I do moderate “heavily” and try to weed out the bad ones that are just looking for a link (shh – do-follow) and I do have some readers that don’t speak/write great english, luckily they have connected with me on other social sites as well and I recognize their site or email address or they wouldn’t make it through either…

If you don’t have anything of actual value to add, then why bother commenting, the links aren’t that good anyway and your time would be better spent creating some community on your own site. Just my $.02 (man I am running out of money giving up 2 cents all the time!)

James Lloyd
#2. February 20th, 2010, at 9:53 AM.

I would agree is it a good Idea to have comment guidelines, but if you do some searching you will find that one factor drives the “crappy comment” problem.

Any blog that is listed “dofollow” has just made itself a target for people trying to increase the number of relevant backlinks to their sites. Google even has a search function that looks for dofollow blogs.

I run a small content writing, backlink creating service, and I can promise you the majority of bad or spammy comments are coming from people like me or my customers.

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#3. February 20th, 2010, at 2:42 PM.

Thanks a lot for this, it helped me a lot with my job as a commentator on blogs and other websites.. thank you very much

Wayne John
#6. February 20th, 2010, at 5:23 PM.

I’ve become a comment Nazi, and if the comment isn’t a true comment, then it gets spam-filed. Sometimes it’s a big judgment call as some of the commentators are pretty good as masking their true intentions, and for that I’d approve a comment. If you at least try to fake it, and it sounds alright and is perhaps something I might reply to, sure. I’d approve that.

Normally I’d require a proper name and a link destination that I don’t mind sending my regular visitors to.

Adam, I was thinking of doing the same thing using a blog to post examples of bad comments. If you plan on setting anything up, let’s talk first. I have some ideas around that very concept.

Cheers!

Jeff
#7. February 20th, 2010, at 9:24 PM.

I too hate crappy comments but I often get no comments on posts so I’ll usually let them in. Askimet handles the spam so that’s not really an issue. It would be nice to have a community of nice bloggers with intelligent comments.

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#8. February 22nd, 2010, at 7:04 AM.

Great post sir. I agree with you. Blog comments really is a great motivation for any blogger. If any visitors comments in my website i really feel good. And i love replying them with good answers so that they will come back again with many questions.

Martin Kono
#9. February 22nd, 2010, at 8:38 AM.

It is hard to expect seeing own comment without saying anything about the topic. It is obvious for me that any answer need to be combined with the question

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#10. February 22nd, 2010, at 9:21 AM.

hello…m thankful for the tips on blogging…
can u help me out..is it necessary to comment on related content blogs? thank you in advance

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#11. February 22nd, 2010, at 2:34 PM.

Askimet filters the spam comments so there’s no really have problems with those who comments without relation with the article. We always welcome those who have something to share but there’s a lot of link builders who doesn’t even respect the site.

Paul
#13. February 22nd, 2010, at 11:16 PM.

I just pulled this comment from my spam box “Very interesting post. Couldn’t be written any better. Browsing this post reminds me of my old bud. He always kept talking about this. I will send this post to him. Am sure he will have a good chuckle. Thanks for sharing!” This was posted like 4 times on 4 different posts! Or the ones that say how they love the site and they will be sure to bookmark it…

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#15. February 23rd, 2010, at 10:32 AM.

Commenters on your blog may have their comments caught by Akismet. If you do not regularly check your Akismet Panel, have an easy way of allowing readers to email you if their comment did not appear.

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#16. February 23rd, 2010, at 1:18 PM.

Comment guidelines are helpful but bare in mind that the length of the comment does not always indicate the quality of the comment. Sometimes the best comments are pithy.

Gomez
#17. February 23rd, 2010, at 2:46 PM.

I have a comment policy on my corporate blog, but yours seems a bit more restrictive. I don’t really care if your link has an active forum or blog… but you can’t have a link to another auto glass company’s web site.

At least, that’s the policy. In truth, even though it’s my competition, I usually let those through.

Other than that, we’re aligned on comment policy.

Ron Leyba
#19. February 24th, 2010, at 12:20 AM.

Having a comment guideline on your blog or website is essential. It just like saying to your audience that you care about everything posted on your blog; may it be on the comment section or on the post itself. Also, it imposes some kind of credibility or authority in my opinion.

Sagar rai
#20. February 24th, 2010, at 11:22 AM.

People more offen trying to comment on the blog without an proper response to the post as they mainly focusing on keyword promotion to get approved and for juice.This is not the right they must read the post and give the proper comment on those blogs

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#21. February 25th, 2010, at 3:40 AM.

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#22. February 25th, 2010, at 8:00 PM.

I have comment monitoring activated on my website, but unfortunately no one will leave a comment Too few visitors I guess.

I was wondering if Google counts the text from the comments section as content for your site? If so the more related comments and keywords used the better. Right?

Also, there are so few dofollow blogs out there do you think it is because site owners are too busy to monitor or are they afraid to dilute the minuscule link juice their Cordless Black and Decker Hammer Drill website has? lol

Thanks for the link (I hope),

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#23. February 26th, 2010, at 12:25 AM.

well if one owns a blog, then they should know what type of comment they should leave, as obvious as a blogger knows if the comment is meant for spam or it really is a comment based on the article, now those that do not own a blog and pretty much find blogs to comment for a link, then say byebye to the comment,,,,people should understand that bloggers are not stupid, they read, write, and know a spam from a mile away

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#24. March 2nd, 2010, at 4:24 AM.

Great post, thanks! No just kidding, LOL!

Keith, it must really annoy you to get these all the time, as 99% of the time they are blatant spam comments that add zero value. I’ve been frequenting your blog for a long time already, and you do manage to keep the neighbourhood tidier than most of the other blogs I’ve visited. Kudos to you for keeping the standards up, and here’s to a continued clean neighbourhood.

I love your blog, do keep up the good work….no, really

All the best

Goran

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#25. March 2nd, 2010, at 5:10 AM.

Above mentioned points are very helpful for me and gives good information about how to post a comment and how to be specific for that blog. Most of the people does commenting for getting back link, but this is also not good, because they comments with their keyword its like a spam and as result of this their blog owner remove their comment from their blog.

Paul
#26. March 2nd, 2010, at 9:19 PM.

I hate the comments that spammers leave when they auto jumble words together and the statement that they made makes absolutely no sense… then they stuff a keyword in the comment like that is not going to get flagged!

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#27. March 3rd, 2010, at 3:43 PM.

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#28. March 3rd, 2010, at 10:15 PM.

Well in the blog commenting world there are two types of people: The ones who are interested in the blog itself, and the ones who are promoting something of interest to them. It seems as though more and more of the blog comments are made by people promoting their own business. Either way, they should still pick something of personal interest even if it does not have relevance to their promoting site. Only then would Blogs be very informative.

Jeff Smith
#29. March 4th, 2010, at 1:41 PM.

Great post sir! I learned new things by reading your article. Nowadays, spammers are everywhere and they leave comments on your blogs that is not related to the article posted and worst, they bombed you with anchor texts. Anyways great blog sir and I am an avid follower of your blog. Keep posting more good and interesting stuff .:D

Christa
#30. March 4th, 2010, at 9:14 PM.

This doesn’t work always.There are many bloggers out there who just don’t want to give link juice no matter how informative your comment is.So the comment will get deleted if you will leave a link.This happened with me many a times.

Jade
#31. March 5th, 2010, at 3:14 AM.

I don’t have a commenting guideline in my blog but like you, I don’t like publishing comments that aren’t related to my blog post either.

Having a comment guideline is a good idea, I might put up one on my blogs as well.

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#34. March 5th, 2010, at 7:03 PM.

Relevence to the post is the most important consideration. Posting such comments as “nice blog”, “cool post”…etc is just spammy. You need to add depth and volume to the comment. Christa is right in saying “There are many bloggers out there who just don’t want to give link juice no matter how informative your comment is.” but I guess this is something you just have to put up with because there are bloggers out there like this guy who will leave your comment in place provided it follows the guidelines above, i.e. no spam. Informative post that I hope many people read as I see countless spam comments as it’s really quite annoying.

Ryan
#35. March 6th, 2010, at 11:41 PM.

There’s no issue in promoting your own business as long as you are contributing to the blog you’re commenting on.

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#36. March 8th, 2010, at 1:30 AM.

I have a number of blogs in different niches, and use the free wp-spamfree plugin on all of them. I find that it is very effective in blocking the worst spam comments.

At this stage I haven’t posted comment guidelines on any of my blogs, but it is certainly something I will think about.

The sad reality is that there will always be people who try to post rubbish just to get links, whether it be in blog comments, on forums or in article directories.

Pearl Rombis
#37. March 10th, 2010, at 4:44 PM.

Genuine comments are easy to spot, as they naturally (like your guidelines request) offer some form of input, question, or expand the discourse. What I find interesting is this:

This was posted on february 19th 2010, and the most recent comment – behind mine – is from the 8th of March. How many meaningful comments on here are present *just* for the “do follow” attributes on your commenting section? I guess the real question is – if a comment is genuine but made only for the link, does it matter?

Regards
PR

ps: your guidelines for posting are actually quite useful, much like a copyright – it won’t stop anyone, but I’m sure it serves as a deterrent .

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#38. March 12th, 2010, at 3:19 AM.

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#39. March 20th, 2010, at 8:42 PM.

Thanks a lot for this, it helped me a lot with my job as a commentator on blogs and other websites.. thank you very much

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#40. April 18th, 2010, at 4:56 AM.

Great Post Pixelhead – Thank You LOL
That’s not what you want, is it? And you are right!
Remember, a few months ago I posted with you for the very first time and I told you, you can delete my post since I do not have an active blog, but I wanted you to know I learned something new from you.
Well, I haven’t posted much here since then but came by once in a while to read and to learn something new. No Pixelhead, I’m not buttering you up, I’m only telling you, I like your posts.
You ask if commenting guidelines are good and here is what I think:
Commenting Guidelines are not just good, they are nowadays a must.
Why do you think I didn’t leave more comments here? The simple answer is, that I most of times I felt like I couldn’t leave a good comment, a post relevant quality comment. I have set up one rule for myself when it comes to link building and that is “DO NOT SPAM”. And to this day I do stick to this rule. More and more blog owners/admins have made their blogs being nofollow blogs. Quality blog commenting is one way of building backlinks and the minimum a comment poster should do to get a backlink from a blog is to leave a post relevant quality comment.
If I can’t do that, then I better keep my mouth shut or better saying, my fingers away from the keyboard.
But also I would like to bring up some critics about some blog owners/admins who use the so much loved keywordluv plugin simply as a bait to draw traffic and to receive as many comments as possible just to turn all links the commentators have left into nofollow links a few days later. Except of their own links for any answers on comments. And this, even on blog posts where they highly advertise for their blog to be a keywordluv blog. Now that’s not the right way either I would think, or what do you think about that method?
Then I rather leave a comment on a nofollow blog just for the traffic but at least I won’t feel like someone tried to cheat me out.
If everyone would stick to commenting guidelines, so that would help the blogs and the ones who leave the comments and this nofollow era could end again. For a new site like mine, it is very hard to build quality backlinks since there are fewer and fewer resources or if you just don’t have the budget to buy links or you don’t have the time to write 5 or 10 quality and unique articles a week.
To me blog commenting is fun, it is a way to learn something new (like here on your blog) and it is a way to build backlinks and to do some marketing for the site.
Well Pixelhead, I leave it up to you, like I always did, if you want publish this or not.
I only told you my 2 cents and tried to answer your question.
Best regards
Paula Jo