SiteComments needs a serious revamp
Published on May 14, 2016
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Hi, folks. Little rant here today.
First, just want to say this...
Comments are CONTENT TOO!
As such, you NEED to have very very strict policies about what comments you accept. Bad comments can have a NEGATIVE impact on your rankings! We are in this business to be successful, not spare feelings. That doesn't mean we have to be rude to the people who leave poor comments, but it does mean we have every right to reject them if they aren't up to scratch! I used to accept every comment because I was being polite and nice, and I wanted to make the person feel good. No more of that!
So, I'm trying to get back into the habit of getting comments on a regular basis in order to build trust, ranking, all that good stuff, but I'm realizing something...
People are terrible at giving comments!
I'm not calling anyone out in particular, and I absolutely do not want to bash people who don't speak english as a native language, but it should be common sense what separates a good comment from a bad comment - Language aside.
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When I'm writing an article on building a gaming PC and a commenter thinks I'm talking about developing games, something is SERIOUSLY wrong (I am referring to the SiteComments platform, by the way).
I have to disapprove 75% of the comments I get.
That's not an exaggeration.
It's really, really frustrating. I go out of my way to leave amazing comments on every single post I comment on..It's both polite and helpful to the person on the other end.
It seems like I get a lot of comments from people with absolutely zero interest in my niche. The moment you start a comment saying something like "I'm not really into pc gaming", that's a red flag. That doesn't mean the comment itself is low quality, it just means it's not realistic.
If you aren't into PC gaming and you aren't shopping for a relative who is, why are you (Realistically) on the site? I'm not saying I would reject an organic comment like that, but come on guys. You are able to select what type of websites you want to comment on, so why not just click "I'm not interested" if it's a topic you can't even pretend to be interested in?
Oh, also, I (Much like Marcus and ColtonJames on here) too suffer from the "Getting Feedback on sitecomments" thing. Stuff like this:
"Great site, looks good! I like how you lay out your articles and i like your overall site design. i think your readers will love to come here and read your content! one thing i would suggest is fixing your grammar and spelling on xyz, but otherwise its good."
Please stop doing that, guys. Please.
I'd really like to see a better filtering system for low quality comments. Please, Kyle & Carson? Do you guys have any plans to fix or update the SiteComments platform in the future?
Thanks for listening to my rant here! What do you guys think? Do you have similar issues with SiteComments? What kind of standards do you set for your comments? Drop a comment below and let me know.
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