The great and powerful Andy Beard has found spam lurking in our site, masquerading as real comments!
Our bad for not paying closer attention, and kudos to him and his awesome Niche Marketing blog for stopping spam in its tracks. Someone get the man a badge and a side arm!
In honor of our spommet catching captain, we’re erecting an official DoFollow Comment Policy. No more Ms. Nice girl and partners. Just because you typed it in manually doesn’t make it Not Spam.
The New Rules
Since I’m giving you a free link, one that usually means you get traffic, I set the rules. These aren’t going to affect anyone who makes sincere comments at the site and really is part of our community.
So, real commenters? As you were.
And I thank the 80% of folks who play by the rules when making manual comments. You get your DoFollow love after a certain number of posts.
Here’s how it works.
You read something you like/disagree with/have questions on/wrote about at your site/deserves a good your-mama joke/rocks/sucks you submit a reply. This isn’t hard.
Here’s fair warning to all others: if We have any reason to suspect your mesage is a spomment or spamment, you gets no love – that includes paid commenters.
If I find your case to be borderline, I will still link to people who don’t get caught in the spam filter, but we’ll give no DoFollow love. Since most drive-by commenters won’t read this, I suggest you use the DoFollow plug-in we use on your blog too, Lucia’s awesome Linky Love.
Others, I reserve the right to edit your link out of your comment – or not print it at all, under any of the following conditions.
- You don’t use your real name or at least a decent handle. I understand link building as much as the next bloke, but don’t be ridiculous. At least INCLUDE your first name so I can delude myself into thinking we’re actually going to bond.
- You leave a link other than the one in the form. Seriously it takes up too much of my time to be fishing you out of the moderation queue all the time.
- You leave a nonsensical or ass-kissing comment. If you’re going to praise the blog or the post, be sincere and specific. I have plenty of worshippers offline, but you have to apply in person.
These rules can change at any time. Free links are for Real Comments.
Rewards for Spam Catching.
If you catch a spam comment that we miss, you totally pwn that comment and we’ll give you a free permanent link somewhere.
In the meantime, we’re using Lucia’s Linky Love Plugin, which delays DoFollow love, and that gives us a chance to catch spam that occasionally still gets through.
Speaking of which - after reading what you said - what is the best way to get back links? I was told back links are 98% of the battle for SEO. Is that true? Could that change because it's like a gimmick (as Google always seems to switch it up to keep adwords revenue high.)
Ok i put my name with a keyword. Hope that is ok. I'm kinda new on marketing and searching engines. Any help is appreciated. My email is in the comment thingy.
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