I am annoyed with my wordpress blog called the Bloggers Trail that receives too many comments every day and 98% of those comments are not useful. All are spams and website promotion. I repent spending time reading it and approving and trashing it out. I finally, decided to disable my comments in all my posts and then I will figure it out later.
As a blogger, I've been visiting some of my friends website and here some of my observations:
- English as Second Language Writers or bloggers. The article or blog post was written in English but for some reasons, some of your social network friends have the same dialect as you are which is not English. For instance, scroll down any of your blog post, you will notice that majority of the comments are not in English and sometimes, the author also replied it in her dialect. What is wrong with this?
- Some comments are ridiculous. It does not say anything about the topic you are posting. You author spend time thinking and editing about it does not deserve comments that are not beneficial to your blog.
- Some of your friends or visitors fill comments with spams. Too many links that are not related your post.
- If you can think of some observations, please add under comments.
- Write it in English Language if an article is written in English.
- Mention the title or the topic of the article in your comments.
- Add more words if your want to as long as you stay in the topics.
- Write your name or pen name as the author of the comment and not the name of the product you are promoting, anyway you can still add any URL in that comment.
- Share it to Facebook or Twitter and other social networking sites as you wish. You will also benefit for doing it since your link is also there.
- Return the favor. When a friend give you great comments and shared your post. Return the favor by commenting, recommending and rating any of his/her article.
- Leave non English comments to the message area like chat box, shout box, or email the author if it is personal.
Those are good blog ideas for anyone who is either looking to blog or are seasoned bloggers. I recommend more of this topic.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Must agree that you are one of the coolest blogger I ever saw. Thanks for posting this useful information. This was just what I was on looking for. keep up the good work
ReplyDeleteComments that start with "Thanks for the post", "Great post" can be filtered by spam plug-ins in Wordpress. You can also manually check the comments that are being posted in your blog post.
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All are spams and website promotion. I repent spending time reading it and approving and trashing it out.
ReplyDeleteI really don't get why people lean towards spam when commenting on blogs. Is it really that hard to think of something sensible to say? Anyway, there are brilliant points in this article, and I do hope people learn and apply these. The online community would be so much better if they do.
ReplyDeleteYou can not really underestimate some comments, they add some spice on the on-going conversation. Just be careful with spam.
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