Every once in a while, a great debate pops up over at the good old Warrior Forum. Today, it’s about blog comments left by other marketers. And believe me, I use the word “marketers” here very loosely. Some of these people, in my opinion, are nothing more than robots. But that’s another issue altogether. Point is, what exactly IS a legit blog comment? Everybody has their opinion. What you are about to read is mine. Take it for what it’s worth to you.

But first, we need to backtrack just a little bit to understand why this is even coming up now. Seems that there are these services and software programs that make it very easy for a person to take one comment and plaster them all over the Internet onto thousands of blogs. These comments range from “Nice article” to “Really love your blog” and everything in between. You can usually tell the auto posted comments because they are very generic and add nothing to the overall conversation of the blog itself. In my opinion, these are NOT legit comments.

Now, there are some who would argue that since they are no outright spam, like “Buy this here” then there is nothing wrong with them and should be allowed to remain on the blog as long as they don’t link to sites that one would find offensive. I don’t agree. These comments, as I stated, add nothing of value to the blog. Why should I reward somebody with a backlink when they most likely didn’t even visit my blog in the first place? If you want link juice from MY efforts, then the least you can do is visit my blog and post a comment that reflects that you actually read my article. Is that so much to ask?

No doubt this battle will go on between those who want to preserve some integrity on their blog and those who simply want to exploit those blogs for their own needs. I’ve even see people argue that posting these comments is no different from submitting an article to hundreds of article directories. The difference is this. The article directories WANT your article. The blog owner does NOT want your irrelevant comment.

Anyway, those are my views on this subject. What side of the fence are YOU on?

I’d really like to know.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
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