Is Link Dropping Always Taboo?
I have always heard that link dropping is frowned upon, and that when you are commenting on someone else's site, you should never leave a link to your own site. But in the training I am working on, Kyle mentioned that spam can be a link that is unrelated to the site you are on or the comment discussion. So what it the proper etiquette here?
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I know the comment section requires name and email with website link optional. Whenever someone leaves a comment on my website, I delete the link to their website before I approve and reply to their comment. But there is one exception. If the person commenting has an authority website or .edu domain, then I will most likely leave their URL in.
Ok so I guess I need some clarification here. When I leave comments I don't list any links. Then the comment section has fields for your name, email, and website. To my knowledge these fields are not published in the comments on the site, correct? So leaving my webite in the provided field is ok?
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Yes, in fact most of them want you to leave your website in the space where they ask for it. But that is not published. To clarify what I was asking, I was on a site in my niche the other day and commented on a post in reply to another reader. This site allows readers to comment back and forth with each other without the site owner moderating the comments first.
Anyway, I had just published a post on my site that addressed that reader's question. I answered the reader's question, and I would have liked to have put a link to my post for her so she could read the whole post on my site, but I didn't because I thought it was probably bad practice. No one on that site knows I have my own site, and I thought it would be rude to the site owner.
Good evening Linda,
I agree with Susan. Afterall we have the last say in this and then simply not authorize this comment.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Good question. I would think that inserting a link to your own site is not the best way to promote, when you are on someone else's site in their comment section. Not that polite to draw attention away from the site you are commenting upon. The better way would be to ask the person running the site to insert a link to your site at some point, I imagine. But, most comments have to be approved, so it is not like you are forcing the site to publish your link. Let's hear what the experienced folk say.
Yes, I decided not to leave a link for that reason. But this particular site lets readers comment to each other without moderating the comments first.
Here is the situation:
To clarify what I was asking, I was on a site in my niche the other day and commented on a post in reply to another reader. This site allows readers to comment back and forth with each other without the site owner moderating the comments first.
Anyway, I had just published a post on my site that addressed that reader's question. I answered the reader's question, and I would have liked to have put a link to my post for her so she could read the whole post on my site, but I didn't because I thought it was probably bad practice. No one on that site knows I have my own site, and I thought it would be rude to the site owner.
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they will leave their site