Thank the Author
You can first start by thanking the author or poster. Everyone deserves to be treated with politeness and professionalism. Your first sentence should be something like:
"Thank you for writing this informative article about ____________. I learned something new about ___________ that I had not known."
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stephhill
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Thank you Alexander. I know when I first started out here at WA four months ago I probably left some not-so-great comments or I did not understand the placement of feedback vs the placement of comments. There really is no formal training to tell us. That is what I hoped I have achieved with this training.
stephhill
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Hi Michael:
Thank you for the compliment. I am glad you look forward to my posts and training. I think you also add so much to the value of our members here. :)
Thank you for the compliment. I am glad you look forward to my posts and training. I think you also add so much to the value of our members here. :)
trendygirl
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Thank you for your training. I am yet starting to write blogs.Your training is of course a great help for all beginners as well as advanced learners.
stephhill
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You are most welcome Anjana. Most of my training is geared towards helping the new members (beginners) as well as advanced learners too, because I see too often comments from veteran members that are too thin, so apparently this training was needed for ALL.
turborick
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Outstanding! Thank you so much for this training. I thought I left pretty good comments in the past, but this will take it to a much better level. Now, at a glance, I can make sure I have covered the key elements of a good comment. I can now just refer to this post as a reminder when I write a comment in the future. Rick
stephhill
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Hi Rick.
Exactly. All too often, even from people who have been here long enough, I see leaving comments that do not not those "key elements" as you say. There have been times that I have gotten an "okay" comment, but I might go in and edit it to give it those additional key elements, because I know the algorithms of Google look for those key elements. Thank you Rick for the insight.
Exactly. All too often, even from people who have been here long enough, I see leaving comments that do not not those "key elements" as you say. There have been times that I have gotten an "okay" comment, but I might go in and edit it to give it those additional key elements, because I know the algorithms of Google look for those key elements. Thank you Rick for the insight.
LucindaF
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Thanks for this. I always try to leave polite comments on people's articles but I have received a couple of comments which I have had to disapprove. One person had obviously not read my article and the other person completely pulled my website to pieces. As you say, this is not a platform for comments on people's websites and, anyway, they didn't seem to know what they were talking about. Sometimes it is better not to comment at all than to give bad feedback.
stephhill
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I completely agree Lucinda. And feedback is perfectly fine to give as long as you leave feedback in the proper place. Either in SiteFeedback or in the Please Give Me Feedback on My Website discussion but never in someone's website.
