Comments Are Not Your Marketing Tool

I get my share of ridiculous spammers commenters on this blog as well as on other blogs that I own or manage.   After bottling my thoughts on this for so long, I’ve decided to say a thing or two about this.

I love flattery as much as the next person, but when you leave a comment stating, “What a wonderful read thanks for the insight loved it ! …” it will never see the light of day when your name happens to be “wholesale polo shirts”.  I’m sorry.  It’s nothing personal, I just don’t like your name.  If you had a name like “Jeff Nelson” it would be a different story, but until then I just can’t bring myself to let it go through.

Then there’s the case of the comments from a person named “retail”.  Is that your first name or your last name?  Or do you think that your fame recognition is so high that you can get by on a single name basis like Cher or Madonna?  I don’t think that’s going to happen so I’m going to require that you change your name as well before commenting again.

Oh, you don’t believe me Mr. “government grants”!  You can legally change your name.  I just saw it happen last week.  There was a comment left by a person named “pharmacy technician schools” and the very next day that same person returned and left another comment.  Only this time his name had been changed to “pharmacy technician program”.  So you see, name changes can and do happen.

Because I keep getting the same comment from you “emt training”, I’m really starting to think that maybe you’re not really a person at all.  Maybe you’re just a script that posts the same comment on thousands of blogs in the hope that all those no-follow links pointing back to your website will somehow improve your search engine rankings.

Well, I’ve got bad news for you and some of your friends.  Like I said, I’m going to need you to at least change your name before I ever even think of publishing your glowing bits of praise.  But until that day happens, I am considering an alternative.  What if I go ahead and publish your comments, but instead of having your crazy name link to your website how about if I link it to one of your competitor’s website?  Wouldn’t that be a gas!?

Now I probably wouldn’t actually start doing something like this, but the thought of messing with comment spammers in this way does have an appealing ring to it.  I like the irony in this if someone wants to disrespectfully use other people’s blogs as a marketing tool to boost the traffic and SEO of their site.

What are your thoughts on keyword stuffed “names” in regards to blog commenting?

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