
This time it will be an experimental post, because it is, actually, a simple blog comment on 3 Resons Why Blog Commenting Is Important by Alex from howtospoter.com.
The reason why I’m publishing the comment on my blog is that it was considered a spam by Alex’s spam-proof system :) This must be some mistake.. But I find this case a very good idea for this post.
Besides, my readers know that I speak about web traffic and web promotion. Excellent promotion demands risks and unusual attempts to do something new, where you’ll be the first one… Isn’t this case a good and unusual way of web promotion? :)
My Spammed Comment on Alex’s Blog
Make sure you have read Alex’s post before reading the following comment:
Hi Alex,
Let me add several thoughts to your post :)
I would have agreed with you several months ago.. But now I should say, that I see this post very.. very controversial.
Why?
1. Commenting on blogs because of traffic is the least important reason. I have tracked it via Google analytics and understood, that only some rare units of readers follow the comments links. And if it’s your primary way of getting traffic, then you lose a lot of time (in most cases).
2. Your second subtopic is “Get Authority / SEO benefits”. Why they go side by side? :) What I mean is that these are extremely different sides of benefits of commenting on blogs.
You get authority.. yeah. I’d call this benefit the most important one. You whether decrease your authority because of *not very smart comments* or you, actually, increase it having your own strong point of view. But in this case you work for the blog owner. You have to impress him, because he can bring you tons of traffic by recommending you or retweeting your post or else. Your aim is not common readers, because they most likely will not read your comment with the same feelings like the author of the blog.
Speaking about SEO benefits.. Any dofollow link in comments is counted as a part of the entire HTML page (this relates to those blogs, that don’t redirect comments to special pages and which don’t have framed or iframed comment forms). This means, that you are totally right about SEO benefits. But still… Why did you put them into one subtopic? :)
3. You have mentioned very good aspect of visiting other blogs. It’s “Liked? Try it for your blog!”. Though you need to be careful.. people don’t like big changes on favorite websites and blogs.
PS. Don’t treat my comment a spam because of the name :) iWoodpecker is what I want to promote, not my real name. Thank you!
Best regards,
Allan
Alex has already reported via Twitter that it really could be his spam filter issue.
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