Posts Tagged ‘Comments’
A word to the spammers or how to turn spammy comments into gold
Our blog is of course not exempt from spammers (ah… you crafty Scrapeboxers… Ohh… The irony), and, like many other blogs, is subject to a tonne of spammy comments.
From the generic “wow, great server, I’ll be bookmark again” to the slightly less generic “I truly enjoyed this article post and for once found great informations inside” to the completely incomprehensible “My watched a yoga course, visit draftly http://blablabla”
Yet, as a blog owner you can really turn those comments into gold. We realize that this is slightly off-topic but would nevertheless like to share a technique with you. As you might remember, off-site backlinks (or in other words, external backlinks) are not everything. Your internal backlink structure matters a great deal too. So, what do you do with them spammy comments?
Simple, go through them all (pretty simple if you are using wordpress) and insert your internal backlink (pointing to any place on your site) instead of the spammy link. Save. Approve. Also, don’t forget to remove the completely spammy comments, there is… Read the rest
Making Your Comments Stick And Some More Goodies
Welcome back, everybody! In our first little tutorial we will be talking about commenting and how to raise your stick rate. First of all though, please understand that a good comment (a comment that manages to stick) will be your ticket to success. So, don’t go about harvesting, scraping and doing an overall great, time-consuming job just to ruin it with a badly formatted comment.
That said, what makes a comment stick and what doesn’t? Obviously, before anything else, you comment needs to appear as unique as possible. So spend some good time formatting and spinning your comments. Generally, 6-5 well spun comments (makes sense grammatically, no spelling mistakes, spinning of words as well as sentences, 1-4 sentences long) will do much better than 20 badly spun ones.
Now, what should your comment be about? Should you go about commenting how great of a blog, somebody’s blog is? Shortly, no! Don’t fall into the trap of leaving short, “soul-less” , badly formatted, really-liked-your-blog-just-subscribed comments. They usually don’t stick well. On the other hand, we have… Read the rest
