Even though I am a blogging CEO I still try to find time to work leaving blog comments on the bloggers blogs that are nice enough to come through my blog and leave comments here, it’s a great way to build traffic and network with bloggers. Not to mention you would be surprised just what you can learn by visiting other blogs and leaving comments on them, I recommend Feedly for managing rss feeds and comment monitoring.
When you leave comments on blogs and specifically a lot of comments on blogs it should be no surprise that certain blogs will become annoying to leave comments on from time to time, I decided to put together a list of 16 reasons commenting on your blog might suck. I don’t expect that everyone will agree with me and the things that piss me off when leaving comments might be something you feel you need to have in place on your blog, or even something you get great results from. Don’t take it personally, it’s just my opinion and the things that I find annoying.
16 Reasons Commenting on Your Blog Sucks
- Your Comment Luv plugin is not working or up to date
- You have Pre-Checked Notify by Email Subscriptions
- You have timed pop-up windows
- You have pre-checked Subscribe to Comments
- Your blog loads slow
- Your blog is not Do Follow
- Your blog is a blogger blog (I hate logging in)
- Your using a third party comment system that is not Do Follow (JSkit, Disqus)
- After submitting comment your blog returns a white page
- You use CAPTCHA as a way to stop spam
- You don’t use the Comment Luv WordPress Plugin
- Your spam filter plugin doesn’t allow my comment to post
- You need to approve comments because you fear spam
- All you blog about is making money online (it can get redundant)
- I have to search for a place to leave my comment
- People must leave a CAPTCHA after typing their comment
Those are just my personal views on what I find annoying when leaving comments on the various blogs that I visit and even blogs in my network, I personally believe that you should reward the people that are nice enough to leave a comment on your blog and I also believe it shouldn’t be like going through a rodeo circus. I hate receiving all kinds of BS email about comments or subscriptions I would never subscribe to on my own and I hate jumping through ropes just to leave a comment.
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John,
I really agree with 7 and 8. I just hit the back button or the red X in the corner when I realize that I have to login to speak my mind. Friends, the more steps you add to any process, the fewer people will finish. That’s why fast food and box recipes are so popular. Cooking has more steps. Same as commenting. Keep it simple. Don’t waste your guests’ time.
Next is CommentLuv and DoFollow. Reward your commentors. I know I am preaching to the choir when I say that on ExtremeJohn.com because John, you take care of your commentors.
As far as manually approving comments, after a commentor has proven that they are not a spambot, don’t treat them like one. Yesterday morning, I posted a relevant comment (at least 100 words and on topic) on a blog I just discovered this week. It is still awaiting moderation almost 48 hours later. I will probably not go back. Yes, I am new to that blog so I can understand the moderation, but please, guy, moderate!!! No such problems at ExtremeJohn. That’s why you are on my daily read list.
Another great read, John!
Keith@Norman Rockwell Art´s last blog ..Oct 26, Norman Rockwell Museum: Making Vacations Memorable
I hate captchas especially those very hard to read captchas.
I also hate logging in and I also hate my comment to being moderated even though I’ve already left dozens of comments already.
ZXT´s last blog ..What’s Hot on YouTube
@ZXT, oh yeah that happens to me all the time. Hell before the Tech Jaws guy decided he was the king of the blogging world I left all kinds of comments there. If I got lucky 3 of them were approved, needless to say you don’t see me leaving comments or even opening the site anymore at this point.
Yeah logging in totally sucks, but the worst is people who leave comments on a million different good dofollow blogs but their own blog is nofollow.
Alan @ Basin Glass Co.´s last blog ..“Just another Brand of Beer”
@Alan @ Basin Glass Co., yeah it’s annoying as hell.
@Alan @ Basin Glass Co.,
Yeah he/she only like to receive but not give.
ZXT´s last blog ..My blog is 2 months old!
John, I totally agree with 7 and 8 above. Once I find out that I have to login or register to speak my mind, I hit the back button immediately. Every time you add an extra step, you exponentially decrease the number of people who will do it. Making commenting easier will definitely increase the quantity and quality of comments.
You also mention rewarding your commentors. Making commenting worthwhile always increases participation. Dofollow and CommentLuv are two of the best plugins developed.
Also, if you are going to moderate comments, please moderate them. Yesterday morning, I left a comment on a nice blog I just found and started reading this week. Almost 48 hours later, it is still awaiting moderation. I am still deciding if I will go back to that blog. It may make inclusion on my “No Follow” list. I can understand the moderatiion since it was my first comment, but please… moderate!
17. Once you determine that a visitor is not a spammer or a bot, make it easier for that visitor to share. Don’t waste your readers’ time.
As usual, John, right on the money and a great read.
Keith@Norman Rockwell Art´s last blog ..Oct 26, Norman Rockwell Museum: Making Vacations Memorable
@Keith@Norman Rockwell Art, thanks Keith and #17 is a great addition to the list.
I will say one thing that is getting very hard around here is moderating comments, sheeesh.
By the way I like the emoticons above lol…
Ok back to the post. I agree to all the points above except point 6 and 13.
It depends on the blog. On mine, I do have some really cool commentators (like you and sm others) but I also have trolls who keep waging wars lol. I think it is coz of the different controversial topics at times. And most of the time these place links to weird places on the net.
If a comment is spammy of course Akismet grabs it but at times people even says relevant things but yet the add link to bad neighborhood. (Like warez and porn). If I remove this link they’ll feel bad and say I edited their comment. So I leave it but the comments are nofollow.
Maybe its cz of the nature of my blog I can’t really use dofollow there but I am TOTALLY FOR dofollow. As for commenting I do not really see if a blog is dofollow or not. As long as I have something to say, I’ll comment.
Now since I cannot use dofollow, I try to reward commentators with a dofollow top commentator plugin and also added the comment luv one.
As for approving comments, as i said it depends on the nature of the blog. There were two saturdays when I had to be out so I placed the blog on auto approve as there was the weekly racing days posts.
As soon as I return on both days, people were fighting against each other and even insulting each other’s religion. That is why sometime approving comments is good in such cases
By the way which plugin are you using for the emoticon John? I really like these.
You know, it’s something I’ve never worried about. I vaguely recall a few years ago when there was a big brouhaha and everyone decided comments ought to be nofollow. I didn’t much care then so I didn’t pay attention.
And I actually don’t know what the settings on my site is. I’ll take a look at the page source at some point (the only thing I really trust is source code, it tells the truth).
The thing is this: nothing we – out here in blog land – do or do not do, really matters… because the people twisting the knobs at the search engines could simply decide that if everything is now dofollow, they’re going to change the weighting. It’s that simple.
Believe it or not, I only comment on blogs I find personally interesting. Like what have zebra stripe bikinis and stuff. Whether it’s follow or not, no worries either way.
I’m looking at this keyword luv thing too… I don’t get it. Does it really matter that much?
Maybe I’m completely out to lunch here.
@Dave Doolin, I can’t say that the Keyword Luv thing has really made any difference to me around here, however for some trying to trap keywords and connect them to their site name it’s a nice addition. Not sure if anyone actually see’s anything out of it.
I’ll second this list, although re: 13 my spam filter has been exceptionally aggressive at times for no reason, and at other times really lousy at picking up obvious pieces of spam. I think this: it’s pretty clear when some people make it as difficult as possible to comment, and I hate that.
Re: 14, people writing about making money online all the time – that’s a really big problem: I don’t know that I expect the blogosphere to be the epitome of rationality, but it’s pretty clear a lack of diversity in blogs means that certain niches are not sustainable. Promotion depends on having like-minded blogs in niches.
ashok´s last blog ..Emily Dickinson, “Expectation – is Contentment” (807)
@ashok, you always have killer responses to every post and well thought out as well, good stuff. I agree if you don’t Diversify than your not doing it, period.
Wrote an article about Diversification in business, should read it ;)
As a commentator I hate captchas but I don’t mind it as it is for spam filteration. I have a nofollow blog.lol.It means people hate to comment there.
Ricky´s last blog ..New Wordpress Theme-Right Sidebar With 3 Column Footer
@Ricky, not at all. That’s honestly meant for people to read between the lines a little bit.
The fact is though in blogging world if you have people commenting on your blog and you are Do Follow and passing that link juice back to the person commenting, than you decide to head to their blog to reciprocate and leave a comment and in return get nothing.
@Ricky,
Ricky I hope you don’t mind me asking, why do you have a nofollow blog? I mean I’ve searched hard enough and I don’t really see any advantage of having a nofollow vs dofollow blog. Maybe you can enlighten me on this.
ZXT´s last blog ..$1,500 Thanksgiving Contest Giveaway
@ZXT,
No problem buddy. Even I don’t find much difference in having a nofollow or dofollow blog. If you observe carefully then you will find that most of the dofollow blogs get many comments and as a part time blogger I can’t afford to waste my time on replying and accepting each and every comments. Moreover I get casual reader who don’t prefer to comment on bloggers blog usually
Ricky´s last blog ..15 Portable Web Browsers For Windows Users
It is from suggestions of great bloggers like extremejohn, sire (of wassupblog), brian hawkins, etc. that I have changed some features of my blog.
1- Removed the old annoying captcha and instead used the ‘captcha free’ plugin.
2- Utilized Lucia’s Linky Love plugin so that commenters who have made at least 3 (or 5?) comments get dofollow status.
I think I’m picking up a few more good points from this post here. Perhaps, I would do the following:
1- Install Comment Luv plugin.
2- Check for comments to moderate first thing every morning. BTW, comment moderation happens only for first time commenters. Others get through automatically.
I agree with #14. I have in the past commented on blogs like these, but eventually I ran out of non-redundant responses and thus have to stop my interaction.
James Moralde´s last blog ..Wordpress Slideshow Plugin: Superb Slideshow
@James Moralde, hey James wow you move quick on the changes very nice. You know how many other bloggers say they are going to make changes or do things based on what they read and never actually do anything haha.
I can’t wait to do my blog rounds this week and check out your blog as I go through.
I have, in the past, been guilty of several of the above, but over the past year, I have always listed to my readers and those that I did use have since gone and it vastly improved the comments coming in on my blog…
Karen@Blazing Minds´s last blog ..Blazing Minds Interviews Hesham from zebida.com
@Karen@Blazing Minds, always a great idea to listen to what your guests have to say, especially in today’s day and age when most peple DON’T listen.
More than a few times I’ve wanted to leave a comment on a blog, but because it’s a blogger blog and doesn’t have the option to post my name and url, I’ve just left and haven’t gone back. I know that it’s one of the default options in blogger, why take it away? Without is rather unprofessional.
Side note, I could care less about Do Follow. If you’re only commenting on Do Follow blogs, you’re doing it wrong.
Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee´s last blog ..Discount On Nespresso Coffee Makers Today At Gilt
@Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee, just because you can care less about Do Follow doesn’t mean that your commentators could care less.
If you blog to sell products and don’t care about the comments or networking with other bloggers than your right Do Follow would be of no use to you.
However if your looking to build networks with other bloggers in your same niche and offer them a little sumtin sumtin for taking the time to comment on your blog as opposed to read it than, you’re doing it all wrong.
@Extreme John,
Pssst wasn’t talking about you. I’m talking about the bloggers that only comment because it is Do Follow and their comments are like “Great Post, I’ve added you to my reader.”
Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee´s last blog ..Discount On Nespresso Coffee Makers Today At Gilt
@Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee, my bad I misunderstood and instantly wanted to attack you. Haha jk.
Yeah you def have to spend more time moderating because of those annoying ass spam posts or weak comments, but I do like giving some link juice to my GOOD commentators for chipping in.
Nice guys always finish last
haha
@Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee,
In that case Mike you can always delete those “Great post” comments.
ZXT´s last blog ..$1,500 Thanksgiving Contest Giveaway
@Mike from Daily Shot Of Coffee, I know what you mean, I’ve been to so many “blogger” blogs and have found something interesting to read only to be pushed away by the lack of name/url in the comments section, it’s so annoying!
Karen@Blazing Minds´s last blog ..Voting over! Bear gets a name!
@Karen@Blazing Minds, by far the most annoying thing to come across when commenting for me.
Well I have to agree my Commentluv plugin does not work properly.. but I have send a support ticket and waiting for the reply. Hope they fix the problem soon.
Also I too hate to login and really hate captchas
Nehh´s last blog ..Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart slipt up??
@Nehh, has Andy gotten back to you yet he is usually pretty good about that.
@Nehh, I’ve only had one problem with CommentLuv and Andy was quick of the mark and sorted the problem out very quickly, try tweeting Andy (@CommentLuv)
Karen@Blazing Minds´s last blog ..Blazing Minds Interviews Hesham from zebida.com
@Karen@Blazing Minds, No Andy didn’t replied, but thanks Karen I’ll trying tweeting him.
Nehh´s last blog ..Chelsea Handler Playboy babe
@Nehh, he is always on Twitter he will answer you there if you can’t get him let me know and I will try to track him down for ya.
@Nehh, keep us posted, I’d love to know what the outcome is…
Karen@Blazing Minds´s last blog ..Halloween Costumes, kids, sweets and everything else!
I like this post. You’re funny! Yet, I understand and sympathize with your thoughts.
What I hate is although I have readers very rarely do I get comments. Now, that sucks!
Dee@Good Morning America´s last blog ..Links for 2009-10-28 [Digg]
@Dee@Good Morning America, look for tips on here about increasing your blog comments, commenting on other blogs is the first start.
Number 7 on your list is the one I dislike the most. It irks me to no end. This is a great post and a learning experience.
@Tom Baker, by far more than annoying.
Wow, you sure got me reading all the points. Thanks for this valuable information.
The only 2 things that I can see on my blog is that it’s not DoFollow and you have to have a previous comment approved. Other than that, I don’t do any of the others.
BTW, this post is sure to be in next weeks Monday roundup. Many users can learn from it.
So, you are actually becoming a regular listing
George Serradinho´s last blog ..Newest WordPress Plugins 29/10
@George Serradinho, no kidding I get to be listed twice thats great news, thank you
I do wish that your blog was Do Follow though. On a side note I finally picked up Thesis now we are trying to figure out how to get my design to work with it. Thats not going good. haha
My blog denies almost 15 things listed by you..Only one point which is “You need to approve comments because you fear spam”..I still feel sometime, Akismet is not able to catch spam comments easily. I have seen many times a little bit spam kind of comments waiting for approval.
Typhoon´s last blog ..Bloggers With Authority Are Made For Success
@Typhoon, yeah it’s one of those tools that works 98% of the time and for the 2% that it doesn’t work it can be a pain in the ass but in reality it isn’t that hard to deal with overall.
A few of my really excellent commentators here were caught by spam filter and I would have lost them had I not checked that box. I will say it’s getting much harder to check that box on a daily basis though.
I have run into many of these problems. I think a lot of the older WordPress sites that have not been updated in a while are the ones that are leading to the blank page after submitting the comment (which who knows is actually submitted).
Another reason to add to your list is blogs that claim DoFollow, but your name links back to your comment on their blog instead of your website.
@Hot Tanning Beds, yeah it’s pretty safe to say that those white page comments never make it. I just recently wrote a huge response to a friend of mine at http://www.lacerocks.com and got the white page.
He confirmed the comment was lost
It hurt.
Ok I agree with almost all except You need to approve comments because you fear spam. I wish it wasn’t necessary but there are a lot of spamming idiots out there that make this a must in my opinion. Great post John
Dan @ Blog about everything´s last blog ..How are People Using Twitter to Communicate in Everyday Life – Having the Right Mindset When Tweeting
@Dan @ Blog about everything, I have written about the spamming idiots plenty of times Danny so I know exactly where your coming from. This blog is currently really getting pounded with spam comments, but I will say even at the rate of 300 per day in the spam box I still don’t mind letting the comments fly.
Ouch!!
That hurt! No not really, if I can make commenting on my blog less sucky then I’m all for it. #5, #14 & #15 quite possibly could be me Yikes!
Ms. Freeman´s last blog ..5 Reasons My Business Has a Toll Free Number
@Ms. Freeman, it wasn’t meant to hurt, it was meant to help ;)
Sometimes helping hurts too, haha. Hey it’s your blog and you should design it however you want, these are just my opinions about some of the things I deal with on a daily basis when commenting.
On a side note I am happy to see you making some changes, if you need any help just scream ;)
Oh great now I really feel like a dweeb! #1 was me too. I fixed that though. Comment Luv anyone?
Now I need to figure out how to get the comments to nest and I am rockin’ and rollin’
Ms. Freeman´s last blog ..5 Reasons My Business Has a Toll Free Number
Quality post, John. I have to say I really like comments to be dofollow links as it gives me another reason to comment. When time is short and there are so many blogs to comment on (as well as write articles, documents and blogs of my own), I prefer to do it on sites which give out the max benefit.
I also dislike blogger blogs as they require so much time with the loggin in aspect.
@Paul, thank you Paul I appreciate the kind words and thank you for leaving a comment.
Let’s face it we all wouldn’t mind a little more link juice.
I personally do not care to log in to make a comment. Kind of a hassle in this “want it now” climate. At the same time, as a full-time blogger, I can understand why they would want you to do it. However, it takes that extra time and it better be worth it, or else!
Boomerblogger´s last blog ..Happy Halloween To Our Pets
@Boomerblogger, hey at least your understanding about it where it seems like most bloggers like myself just HATE it.
I dislike commenting on blogger blogs so much I wrote a post on it.
I’ve found that the best way to get comments is to make leaving comments as easy as possible. This means forgoing the Captcha crap. Honestly, Akismet does a decent enough job, and any blogger worth his salt won’t mind spamming the occasional spam. I actually take great enjoyment out of spamming those suckers.
Spamming comments is so much better than just deleting them, because it helps akismet recognize them for the crap that they truly are.
Sire@WassupBlog´s last blog ..$20 Million Dollar Halloween Superdraw
@Sire@WassupBlog, see I suck. I knew someone wrote a post about Blogger Blogs and hating them a while back but I couldn’t remember which blog it was on.
Feel free to link it here Sire.
@Extreme John, No worries John, as good as you are you can’t be expected to remember everything. And it’s not necessary to link back, although you still owe me an Alexa review
Sire@WassupBlog´s last blog ..Googles Latest PR Update In Time For Halloween
@Sire@WassupBlog, I wrote a review for your site. Did it not show? I wrote a pretty bad ass review for your site actually, that fn pisses me off! I will do it again.
@Sire, Nope, just had another look and there is definitely no review. Oh well, it’s like I always say, shit happens.
Sire@WassupBlog´s last blog ..How To Turn Off The Internet On The iPhone 
I hate to comment and read some blogs which takes long time to load
Wow, 34 comments to this post already – well, I’m just going to post my views anyway.
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2. You have Pre-Checked Notify by Email Subscriptions
4. You have pre-checked Subscribe to Comments
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I assume you here might mean a newsletter subscription, for one of them? Otherwise, you could be in trouble :D I mean, your blog sends out an e-mail when somebody replies directly to a comment, and that’s not something you (as a commenter) even can turn off). I offer the same plugin, as you know, over at my site, I have it pre-checked though – but still it’s possible to uncheck it. I don’t recommend unchecking it though, as I wrote about here (you already read it): Why “Comment Reply Notification” Is A Must Have Plugin For Your Blog – Otherwise….
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8. Your using a third party comment system that is not Do Follow (JSkit, Disqus)
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Yeah I hate those two. Often they are “too complicated” to use just to leave a comment, I must really *want* to leave a comment, otherwise I don’t bother.
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12. Your spam filter plugin doesn’t allow my comment to post
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Let’s see if your spam filter allows this comment to be posted, since I added a HTML link to it… otherwise…
Klaus @ TechPatio´s last blog ..TechPatio Received First PageRank – Now PR2
@Klaus @ TechPatio, looks like the comment worked ;)
I do like the “concept” of the third party commenting plugins for Wordpress however I think they still have a ways to go before they will excite me.
Ohhhhh my Comment Luv Plugin is not Working :S.
BTW, your comment luv is not working with my posts
@Asswass, things on my blog might be a little screwy we are testing Thesis behind the scenes, hating it…. but testing it.
Oh well, what can I say, but agree with almost everything you outline here. Unfortunately in some cases, it is just possible to have everything working as one would want (like comluv). At the end of the day, I do comment on any blog regardless of their platform. Unless they have the captcha thing turned on and pop-up forms and requires me to log in before commenting, then in this case it will be a matter of how moody I am that day
I agree that commenting should be made easy and if you fear spam, then akismet is there to help and ultimately you can always moderate your comments.
DiTesco´s last blog ..Website Keyword Discovery Tool
@DiTesco, commenting on your blog is as easy as eating a great piece of pie, couldn’t get much easier than your blog is haha.
Hi John,
I have just about quit commenting on blogs for many of the reasons that you mentioned here. I may have missed this post but it came up in my Google Alerts.
I now, live eat and breath leaving useful relevant comments. I like to call this approach Scratch My Back Marketing, as in a good comment gets a good link. However, I did a case study this summer and I discovered that only 43% of my comments where getting posted. Most of them got caught up in spam filters because I use SEO as part of my keyword phrase, as I have done here.
Just getting those 100 comments required that I visited about 120 blogs.The extra 20 where using third party comment systems. I judge the effectiveness of everything that I do in terms of ROI and blogs were not producing much.
Now, I almost exclusively use Web 2.0 Social sites to build links. I miss visiting blogs and reading other points of views, but I can not justify the ROI, as a CEO I am sure that you can relate.
Boris@ Niche SEO´s last blog ..SEO Doesn’t Take Forever Or At Least Not For Me!
totally agree with you , i have the same idea with comment on blogspot blog.. it just to ” hard ” when we want to give our opinion
Happy Halloween.I can add to that list but since I’m trying my best to keep a positive mindset I will just say for myself I have to write stuff that people will want to comment on ;) Interesting post
Enjoy the day
thanks
John Sullivan´s last blog ..Blogging a realistic journey ?
@John Sullivan, I like your new approach bro I like it when your positive. It creates great results.
The blogs that annoy me are the ones that have a registration system so you can’t leave a comment until you register. I just couldn’t be bothered – I really don’t need to have another user name and password to remember.
Paula from Affiliate Blog Online´s last blog ..Twitters LIST Feature – Is this the beginning of the end?
@Paula from Affiliate Blog Online, without a doubt one of the dumbest things ever. So many large communities are like that and it blows me away that people are willing to go through all of that in order to leave a comment, it’s crazy.
Thank you for commenting btw ;)
Right on the money with Blogger. I can list the things I enjoy less than logging in to Blogger on one hand. Without using my thumb.
I’ll be sure to check out CommentLuv this evening, and I may well double check the follow status on my comments section too.
Andrew Nattan´s last blog ..Google Toolbar PR Tool Has Updated
@Andrew Nattan, sounds excellent Nathan let me know what you think if you decide to give those plugins a try. Once I get my blog back in order I will be heading over to check out your blog, it looks like I might like it
@Extreme John,
Cheers John. I’ve installed CommentLuv (that’s a nifty little tool), so I’ll be trying it all out very soon.
Andrew Nattan´s last blog ..The Problem With Social Media? You’re Doing It Wrong.
@Andrew Nattan, it’s an added bonus (or incentive) for people to comment on your blog
Most of your list brings up one important point, make it easy to comment. This is one of my basic fundamentals of business, make it easy for people to do business with you.
I am surprised you are bothered by #13. Iget so few comments I am not sure I am ready to give that up.
Ned Carey´s last blog ..Death Notice of Ned Carey
@Ned Carey, exactly. The harder you make it the more you increase the chance of losing a comment.
As for #13 it bothers me, however as this blog grows I am starting to appreciate it more.
Thanks for reminding me to install commentluv on my new blog (I do have it on my personal blog at israelimom.org – both are dofollow blogs).
What I don’t understand is how you can be dofollow, have what sounds like a weak spam filter and not approve comments manually? I can only imagine you have the best spam filter plug-in ever – care to share what it is?
Anne at B6S.net´s last blog ..Why Do I Dofollow
@Anne at B6S.net,
I am not John but I’ll reply. I use Akismet. It has been almost perfect for me. I have had I think only two false positives and no obvious spam has made it through. It will occasionally let some questionable posts through which is why I still moderate. But generally these are harmless shot comments not obvious spam.
Ned Carey´s last blog ..Review of The Go-Giver
@Ned Carey, thanks for taking the time to comment Ned.
You are correct I also use Akismet to handle my spam and for the most part it does the job, it grabbed something like 1600 spam comments last week and let 3 slip through. Not bad at all in my opinion, for an moderated blog.
@Anne at B6S.net, first off let me say thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.
Happy to see your running Do Follow with Commentluv installed too, thats an excellent incentive to leave comments and get involved in your community. In regards to the spam filter that works magic hear, Ned was nice enough to field that question below
Thanks for the replies (and thank you Ned for visiting and commenting on my blog!)
Askimet is what I use as well. It’s pretty good, I agree, but those few comments that do slip through still make me keep all comments on moderated status. I find that the ones it doesn’t catch are those stupid fake compliments from “people” who never bothered reading the post in the first place.
Anne @ b6s.net´s last blog ..How to Find Dofollow Blogs
Dude, I totally need to load the Comment Luv plugin. I keep saying that, but I really need to. And yes, I HATE logging in to blogs. When I’m forced to, I usually lose interest and stop commenting there. LOL.
The Constant Complainer´s last blog ..Cell Phone Shots – Volume VII
I still prefer to moderate comments, even though I dont mind people promoting their websites.
That day one idiot leave a comment with one word “viagra”. However this stupid word appears 30 times and all hyperlink to somewhere.
Just want to tell you thank you! for all the great info found on your site, even helped me with my job recently
keep it up!
Some blogger put twitter, facebook button on right side of their blog which distract us for read the blog post. I hate such features.
chandan@work at home´s last blog ..15 most effective twitter tools [Digg]
your post is cool. where lots of peeps agreed how blog commenting sucks for the readers. i’m learning from the others thoughts..
@Cidric, thats great news thank you for taking the time to comment.
Man i just found your blog and i give you props for keeping it real. I hate posting comments where i have to write captcha it can be frustrating on some of them. i hate blogs that make you log in ! those really suck and I hate blogs that sound like a broken love song. blog commenting is infectious like yawning, i hate when people visit my blogs but dont comment
blog promotion tips´s last blog ..Blog Promotion Weekly Wrap Up
@blog promotion tips, I haver to say I like your passion about it. Sounds exactly like mine, logging in is the biggest pain in the ass ever when it comes to commenting.
I will have to check out your blog, thank you for dropping by.
I like your comments on do follow. Theres an application for just about anything isn’t there Ej?
Looks like am guilty of many of those points, personally i find that a nofollow comunity is more dedicated and less spamy than a dofollow because too many people like to force up their comments who are not even interested in the post…
comment love, top commentator etc. are always an advantage which i keep on most of my blogs, they are not dofollow but atleast they might send some traffic which makes me feel good.
other points you mentioned are common and i don’t see anyone who would really waste more than a few seconds to see the page load, and a couple of popups are just enough to ensure that its got to be the last visit,
good post over all, re-captcha, blogger blogs etc. are turnoffs too, bloggers should always make it easy for commenting, if they expect some comments to come their way
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Nice post! Thanks for sharing your ideas..
Now I know why blogs have many comments.
Is there any other way of promoting blogs?
I agree to some of your point. but for the captcha, I think this is a good way to stop spam robot. I think captcha will be annoyed if hard to read and push commenter to re-submit the comment.
@Ruri @ Free article submission, just speaking from personal experience. I almost always close out a post if there is a CAPTCHA to leave a comment, even if I loved the post I can’t be bothered with the hard to read and annoying CAPTCHA codes. To each is own.
In regards to number 9, that usually means that akisment is installed and it triggered some keywords it did not like. But this is a good list and I agree with most of them.
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very agree with you .. all of them just making me laugh
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The hassles of commenting on Blogger blogs is my largest pet peeve. Now that there are so many great CommentLuv dofollow blogs I’m starting to refine where I spend my time even more and seeking out only dofollow blogs using both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv.
One tip: I have recently come across a very popular blog with visible CommentLuv that has nofollowed all links in their comments. Most never verify whether a site really is dofollow or not which is why I prefer dofollow certified blogs now. One option is the one displayed in my blog and there are others.
I recommend using the free SEOBook Toolbar to instantly see what is dofollow and what isn’t (on most blogs – some block that ability). You don’t have to check all the time – just check to see where your comments provide the most value.
I have Twitter lists for KeywordLuv, dofollow, and Top Commentator anyone can use and follow (use TweepML to make it fast) and a very popular DoFollow Tools and Lists post. Anyone who is truly dofollow and uses those plugins and wants on those lists only has to ask me. (ExtremeJohn is already on them and will be included in all lists I create.)
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I really hate to be the person defending blogger but you don’t HAVE to log in unless the owner of the blog clicks registered users only.
Most of them if you hit the drill down thing will give you the option of Name/URL.
I also will not comment if it is too complicated.
My pet peeve are the blogs that come up with a clever phrase and you have to figure out what it is so you know what to click. Instead of Click here to comment, which btw I don’t like doing either, it’ll be share you opinion or something even worse.
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@dwippy@dofollow blog list,
“Click here to comment” would be fine but most blogs say “No Comments” until the first comment is posted. Those who are new to reading blogs may interpret that as, no comments allowed.
I edited my theme to make the commenting language clear.
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@dwippy@dofollow blog list, Far too many Blogger blogs don’t have that option enabled. If they have Twitter accounts I Tweet at them recommending they turn it on if they want more comments. If they have that option I may comment; if they don’t I rarely waste my time trying to get logged in.
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User experience should always be prioritized although not all people realize that, this post serves as a guideline.
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