Re: Spam on Blogs

**"* G* <d*@gmail.com>**

jems - that sounds as if you're visiting a blog to post a note about your
own magazine entries. (maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying)   My
sense is that good comments add to the blog topic and conversation in the
post.    I guess it may depend on how you work that info into the comments.
:-) I know I welcome comments by folks who have something to add to the
conversation but I tend to edit out self-serving links if they don't relate
or help my readers.
I'll leave it to the rest of the more-experienced bloggers here to chime in
on how they view publicity comments on a blog.   What do you guys do?
Doug

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, jo ellen meyers sharp <
hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Doug -- I'm new to the blogosphere and the few that I'm on (Smaller
> Indiana, for instance), I will leave a brief message about the new
> issue of Indiana Living Green magazine...something about a story
> featured (12 green gifts, christmas bird count info) and the link to
> the magazine.
>
> Is that what you are talking about?
>
> jems
>
>
> >I'm seeing a LOT more spam on gardening blogs lately - these are
> >human-submitted and are getting through your spam filters because of it.
> >  They are however clearly spam - although they don't look like it on the
> >surface.  I wrote an article on it here
> >http://edit-the-net.com/spam-linksthat I would suggest you check out
> >for the 4 warning signs.  And then go
> >through your comments.  And before you think it really doesn't matter -
> >please understand that your Google ranking (and hence traffic) is
> partially
> >determined by the nature of your outgoing links and every time you allow
> one
> >of these links to exist on your site, you're losing Google brownie-points.
> >  Google doesn't penalize you for the nature of your incoming links - but
> it
> >does for the nature of your outgoing links.
> >Doug
> >
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