Don’t be a Blog Spammer

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This morning I opened my email  and saw that I had received 10 comments overnight. Yea me! Right?

Wrong!

Nine of those comments looked like this:

I would like to thank you for the efforts you have put in writing this blog. I’m hoping the same high-grade site post from you in the upcoming also. In fact your creative writing skills has inspired me to get my own website now. Actually the blogging is spreading its wings rapidly. Your write up is a great example of it.

Not similar to that, EXACTLY the same. All from the same person, promoting the same website.

Guess what? I went into my comments folder and spammed them all.

I know that many internet marketers tell you that a good way to get incoming links to your website is to comment on other blogs.  In fact, I tell people that too. You may have read it right here on this blog.

If done properly, blog commenting works. For a long time, one of the top ten Google search results for “Andrea Stenberg” was a comment I made on Chris Brogan’s blog.

However, if you’re going to comment on another person’s blog, don’t do it only for the purpose of getting a link to your website. You’ve got to add value. Make a comment that is specific to that blog post. Be insightful and thoughtful. Add something new to the conversation. Agree or disagree. It doesn’t matter as long as you are commenting because you have something to say.

So please, make my day. If you have a thought or experience about this post, please leave a comment. If you disagree, share that too. Just add something to this conversation, please.

Andrea J. Stenberg