Yesterday I went in to moderate the comments on “SEO Standards Protect Site Owners” and I found the most amazingly stupid piece of comment spam. Someone had actually copied verbatim 3 sentences from the post and put a link in it to their site.
Generally I am all for furthering discussion, even if you are not creating new content. For example Eric Itzkowitz left the same comment on both Graywolf and SEOmoz. Eric makes a good enough point that it can bear repeating. Some people either lack Eric’s standards of self-censorship or believe that blog writers are very stupid.
Perhaps I would have let the comment slide if it had been plagiarizing someone other than me, or if they had at least stolen content from another post.
If you have no concrete strategy beyond dropping comment links then let me offer a few suggestions. You should fulfill 1 or more of the following conditions if you are dropping a link:
- Say something so mind bogglingly brilliant that everyone want to know who you are.
- Link to something valuable
- Link to something informative
- Link to something that furthers the discussion
- Write something that is not plagiarizing the blogger you are commenting to
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Carlos, I just did a blog search on Google for my name and viola.
I totally agree with you on this topic. In fact, I really thought long and hard about the decision to make the same post on Michael’s blog and SEOmoz. I considered modifying it somewhat, but it was already short and sweet, so I left it alone.
However, I think that all of us can use a reminder now and then about blog comment etiquette. Thanks, this is now definitely top-of-mind.
Have an awesome weekend.
Eric
Eric, thanks for stopping by. You have a nice weekend too.