Re: Spam on Blogs

**l*@juno.com**

If the comment has nothing to do with my blog entry, I delete it.
Sometimes people just say, "Love this topic," with a link to their own
blog. I don't find that necessarily offensive. I click on every link to
see who the person is (appears to be) and, if it's relevant, I post a
comment on their blog to see whether I can pick up some of their readers.
Works well for some, such as Gardening Gone Wild, but not for others.

When I first started blogging, I kept getting comments from a reader who
I thought was just trying to generate traffic for himself, or was a
spammer. By studying my traffic on Google Analytics, I discovered he was
a regular reader and that I sometimes pick up "referrals" from his blog.
A year later, I discovered everyone on another blog I read regularly
seemed to know him well and loved interacting with him.

I also set up a separate g-mail address and an "e-mail me" button on my
blog. I get about 80 spams a week that go directly into the filter. I get
maybe 2-3 legit e-mails per month and they are always interesting, longer
expositions on someone's experience with one of my blog topics.

I don't get anywhere near Doug's traffic (I assume), so it doesn't take
me long to check out those who comment or e-mail.

Regards,
Lois
Visit: http://loisdevries.blogspot.com

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:05:23 -0500 "Doug Green" <deegeeguy@gmail.com>
writes:
> 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
> 

> 
> 

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