Back Linking And Comments – Is It Spam Or A Useful Comment?
I use two great plugins for spam.
Akismet of course, millions use it and it’s great. I did get tired of cleaning out the spam (you don’t have to, it deletes it on it’s own. I’m just crazy!) so I wanted something else to keep out the bots.
So I add SI Captcha which did the trick. It’s a wonderful plugin.
I didn’t have any spam for months then all of a sudden stupid comments from people looking for a back link to their site starting showing up.
When this kind of stuff happens, I know there was some big launch of another product for SEO or back linking with instructions on placing comments on other sites to get back links to one’s own site.
Which of course, is a great idea. Google places a ton of weight on the activity of your blog/site and comments could very well be the heaviest.
But of course it doesn’t work because the comments aren’t a true comment but just spam.
It’s time to grow up about the way you place comments because you’re just wasting your time (and mine too!) otherwise.
Do you really think someone will allow one of your comments to stick when you visited their site for the first time ever and spent 20 seconds there?
I love comments. I want comments. But I won’t allow spam comments.
If you’re going to do it, spend longer then 2 seconds on a site and make a good comment!
I’m not saying this will work every time, but you’re wasting your time doing it the way you’re doing it now.
And get your money back from the product you purchased that advised this course of back linking.
To sum it all up: Real comments are great, carry a lot of weight with the SE’s and gives you a great back link when done properly.
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