Good Comments Going to Spam Folder
Give and Take is Taking a Toll
Many of you may already know of the give and take comment section here at Wealthy Affiliate. For those of you who don't know you can find it here - https://my.wealthyaffiliate.co...
Simply put, it's where you post your amazing articles and content and ask the community to post comments on your page. You also give comments to those who comment on your page in return. Hence the reason for calling it "The give and take comment thread".
Recently I've had some stress with this. I took time from my busy schedule to add comments to my fellow Wealthy Affiliates' beautiful posts. A few of them contacted me saying that they did not receive comments from me. I resent the comments (rewriting them from scratch once more) and they still did not get it. In one case I redid the comment 3 times.
What happened to my comments?
Where did my comments go? I did them. So I know I'm not going crazy. Did they disappear into thin air? Nope. They went to the recipients' Spam Folder. Imagine that! These were great comments. No links. No selling. No promoting of myself or my products. Genuine comments after spending time reading content on peoples' pages.
My only conclusion is that I am a little TOO active in posting comments and WA's spam blocker is seeing me as a spammer (which I'm not). LOL
Moral of the Story?
This is an important lesson for all of us. We need to check our spam folder and not assume that only bad or spammy comments go to the spam folder. Good and even great comments could get classified as spam. So be aware. That one good comment in your spam folder could be your next sale.
All the best.
Kevon
P.S.
Remember - "The Name of the Game is to Stay in the Game until You Win the Game" Keep working hard and success will come to you.
Recent Comments
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Thanks for such a helpful reminder! I am so busy most of the time that this may not have occurred to me, Sue :)
Hi Kevon,
I never thought of that. I should check my spam folder to see what I'm missing.
Great point!
Gina
I'm with you with the frustration. One tends to lose spontaneity when one has to repeat oneself! Thanks for sharing!
That is strange. It is the first time I hear of this happening. Thanks for the warning. I need to check my spam folder more carefully.
I didn't know that good comments can be classified as spam without being classified as one deliberately by the receiver. Now that you have raised that I will constantly be checking. Thanks
Robert Boomer deals with this I this post SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! – Have you checked your spam lately? It's an ongoing situation to be watchful for!
LOVE love LOVE this post!! Yep, sure did happen to me, lol! I found THREE, JUST NOW!!! Can you believe it???
Thank you Kevon! I would have never known!!! Super info.
Hi Kevon , good to know that but I thought when there is a comment the WP platform should have a number shown on comment plugin?
So the problem of comment get into spam folder shouldn't arise. I only use the comment thread once so correct me if I am wrong.
The problem is that it was not showing up as a comment at all. That is why they missed it. You have to actively check you spam folder. It seems that Spam comments don't get counted. Will investigate this.
Check spam folder is a tedious job. It can be flooded with hundreds of junk email a day. I used to just clear all. Now that you mentioned, probably I have to check every day. thanks
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I've never heard of this happening. Time to check my spam folder now! thanks for sharing.
Erica
Your welcome Erica. It is a real problem. Hope you haven't missed any good comments.
All the best
Kevon