Approving Your Comments
When you have a good website up and running their may be something you will begin to notice. If you have followed the training inside WA and became one of the website on the front page of the SEOs. You will notice that you will have an increase in comments.
Which of those comments are LEGIT & which are spammers or robots?
We are shown the Akismet and SI CAPTCHA to help prevent some of this non-sense. Yet the spammer remind me of your radar detector in your car. Once you get the latest and greatest of all detectors. The local law enforcement come up with a new way to slow you down.
What you will need to do is be extremely cautious on which comments you approve. Once you have approved the comment make sure you empty your spam that was caught by the plug-ins you are using. The longer you allow spam to be attached to your website the more vulnerable you become for more junk.
If the comment is lengthy with a link or a bunch of link to another website. Go chance this will be a robot or spammer looking for you to approve it. It's like the spam you get in your e-mail, once you open it up you computer becomes a playground for the spammer.
So which comments are you approving?
If you know who sent the comment, like a community member from WA, then good chance you will be fine approving these. A trusting member of the community will not use your website by adding a link to there site within the comments without you approval.
Read all comments that have not been stopped by the spam plug-ins and determine if it is relevant to the post. A relevant comment will tell you a lot about the person who added the comment. One would be that they took the time to read and review your post.
If the comment look generic. Good chance it is a robot looking to hack into your site.
Hope some of this information helps when you reveiw your next comments.
Recent Comments
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Hey Ken. I now only approve comments that add value to the content that I have written.
A good comment will give a relevant argument, or a knowledgeable addition to the post.
Comments such as 'great article' 'thanks for sharing' etc offer no value to SEO or to your readers, so they are best declined no matter who they are from.
Regards
Paul
I agree with you Paul. If the comment is just simply "great article" or "thanks for sharing." Then yes, it really has no value and will not help you or your readers.
To see if a comment has value, it is best to read the comment to see exactly the relevance. Which is why we should read all the comments we feel will give us value.
I don't know if I would be so incline to decline however. Maybe send the visitor an e-mail requesting that they add a little more to the comment and make it relevant? Just a thought.
I guess it depends on the time you have Ken. If you have 100 posts, and 5 brief comments on each, it could take you forever to reply to each of these, and then the percentage of these that will actually come back and leave a more constructive reply may be minimal.
It takes long enough to filter through the spam anyway.
My view is if they cannot add any value, don't honor them the back-link or exposure!
I would rather take my time adding a nice reply to people that have taken the time to add a constructive comment
My view only though!
Paul
Thank you for this advice. Didn't know about robots. I will pay closer attention to spam and comments. Blessings.
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Good point about emptying spam. MOST of the time, you can tell it's spam by poor spelling, it doesn't make sense, the email is funky....