You know, the one who you hope will publish your comment and send you traffic.

Yes. I’m looking at YOU. If you’ve ever done one of these, and you were a new blogger or I knew you from somewhere, I probably let it slide the first time and sent you an email. If your comments disappear after that?

It’s probably because you did one or more of the following. Take heed. I’m not the only who gets miffed by these…

1- Be Sure Not To Use Your Real Name.

We don’t care who you are, and we Love to enhance the credibility of our blog with links out to people who think their keyword is more important than their identity.

Hint: Most people will find John Doe, the Your Keyword-er to be acceptable.

2- Make Your Comment as Generic As Possible.

We’d never figure out that your comment couldn’t possibly have anything to do with our specific post.

3- Be an Ass Kisser to Increase Your Chances.

Of getting deleted.

4- Leave your Link in the Body of the Comment.

Because I didn’t see it in that spot that says “URL” or “link”. And it won’t get auto-moderated into a queue where I will then remove it.

5- Cut and Paste the Same Comment Everywhere.

I don’t ever go to other sites. I’m a blogger not a- hey, wait, I’m a BLOGGER. By Definition I go to other sites. What do you know about that?

6- Be Way, Way Off Topic.

Every conversation, sooner or later, is about Viagra, isn’t it? Thanks for skipping the foreplay. Real time saver.

7- Send a Fake Trackback.

If I’m a busy blogger, they won’t get moderated until right before Google would give you some potential credit. And speaking of Do Follow/I Follow/No No Follow…

8- If I’m a DoFollow Blogger, Make it Apparent that You Could Care Less About Interacting, And Just Want a Link

That’s SURE to get me to turn off the NoFollow attribute for that comment. Oh, you didn’t know we could control that? Sucks to be you.

9- Mistake My Blog for the Support Department.

If you’ve got a question for me? You should probably use the email address I gave you.

Or the form on the site.

Or if it was a phone order, the number on the sales page.

Or the direct number I gave you.

Or Facebook private message. Or Twitter direct message.

For real? You should ONLY resort to a blog comment as a means of reaching support if all other methods fail.

And then you should do something in your comment that would get it moderated, but not as spam. That's a special tip for all those folks who include your credit card number, phone number, home address or some other personal information that I cringe at when I finally see the comment.

Whether it's ten minutes later or ten hours doesn't matter - having your personal information displayed for ten seconds on a site you can't control isn't a great idea.

10 - Never Come Back.

What freak show said that comments were about community? If God wanted comments to have anything to do with community he would have started the words with the same four letters.

Why should you form partnerships or get to know me for a while, so your request for a favor later won’t sound like it's out of the blue?

11- Ignore My Comment Policy If There Is One.

I wrote it for my health, not for something silly like, oh, I dunno, your benefit. That’s not why I put a link to it on every page or in my sidebar.

Why pay attention to some page I took time out of my life to write? It’s not like it gives you guidelines guaranteed to help you get your comment published, so that if all you want is a link anyway, you can get it.


It’s not as if I might to Stumble, Tweet or Digg the sites of people who comment on my posts, or include them in a post on another day. Why should you bother to increase your chances of getting as many free one-way, traffic sending links as possible?

Don’t be silly.

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Amin Ramjee writes: Great post. Really thanks for shearing.

7:42:05 Tue Sep 15 2009 CDT


Tinu writes: Thanks for all your comments. Even if you didn't like it. I'm not going to be that person who fights with people on the internet - you know what's wrong with them!

Like the FULL article says at it appears at my blog (where I admit the *sarcasm* is in better context), I generally don't care about the little things as long as the post itself feels sincere to me. But I'd rather err on the side of caution than ruin the experience for the rest of my community.

If these things are happening to you - don't be afraid to BLOCK SPAM. It's YOUR community - don't let naysayers keep you from being able to run your blog - especially if it's a business blog - the way YOU see fit. So many people go through this daily and are quiet about it. I refuse.

11:38:25 Thu Jun 18 2009 CDT


tjenarvi writes: hah, great posts!
but I mostly break the rules you stated above

9:25:22 Thu Jun 18 2009 CDT


Richard writes: I have one guy that comments on every post on my small career advice blog and his 'name' is something like "how I make millions doing xyz". He is very persistent "maybe has automated the process" anyhow he continues even after I delete his comments. Next time its the spammer button... not sure what difference that will make though, I'm new to using Wordpress from my own site at http://www.or... only kidding :-) Ric

11:05:11 Sat Jun 13 2009 CDT


ericat writes: I would be very nervous to write a comment on your blog. sigh ! I have been annoyed by some of the comments mentioned, but I am not sure I would want to give the spammers tips to make a better job of it. Rather let them be ovious.

18:11:52 Fri Jun 12 2009 CDT


Glen writes: I certainly recognize most of the behaviour you mention in your article with my blogs. 90 per cent of the comments left on my blogs are completely irrelevant and stuffed full of links to adult sites. They end up being deleted immediately.

17:06:27 Fri Jun 12 2009 CDT


Victoria writes: What the heck are you talking about? This "article" is absolute gibberish! I could NOT figure out whether you are speaking as the commenter or the blogger, and whether this is supposed to be actual or just a joke or sarcasm. I must say, I have never seen anything so stupid as this on this (Site Reference) webspace! What the ...???

12:34:07 Fri Jun 12 2009 CDT


Georga writes: THANK YOU!!
A blogger friend and me have talked about these things in great detail in the past and we have even done blogs in the past satirizing many of these...and other stupid things people do on the net.

12:18:36 Fri Jun 12 2009 CDT


Christina writes: Sarcasm gets a point across, I guess.

But I have to admit, I'm guilty of a couple of these, so, point taken.

11:15:40 Fri Jun 12 2009 CDT


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