I think we should build a list of nofollow blogs. Mention your url and the type of content. If you are going to comment on these blogs, please leave more than 1 or 2 sentences. Most are moderated and your comment would not be displayed. The benefit to commenting on a nofollow blog is that you can get a backlink. I'll start it off with: www.reviewerofsites.com - SEO, advertising, Adsense, website review.
Yes this site have the full list http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/ I have submitted a comment to all the blogs in the first page... Will submit gradually in all those blogs.....
To be honest, I'm thinking about dropping off that list, and there's good reason. The amount of spammy comments I get is insane!
Most of the spam gets caught before I see it. I wish I could implement a comment requirement of "must be 4 complete sentences or more". I don't approve them unless they are actually good.
Yeah that's the thing. I'm in the process of writing a comment policy. So far will be: - Must comment either as your name or pseudonym (not keyword rich) - Blogs must look complete, no kubrick/default about pages - websites must be hobbist/fun & profit sites, no medicine/gambling sites That's it so far. I'd love for there to be a wordpress plugin that offers a "delete and e-mail" feature. It's not comment spam per se in the traditional sense, just useless comments that mean nothing except an extra linkback to them. Therefore, the e-mail addresses are real, I'd love to say "sorry! Your comment sucked, if you want to get your rubbish website plastered on my blog, here's the advertising page, here's my bid directory, pay me, then you may."
Those are all good ideas! I'd love to be able to send a reply email like that. Also, maybe it would be good to have a validation email, where they need to reply before the comment can be submitted.
Very true, but that'd only deter the laziest of spammers, the rest will just click the link and be done with it, and you're in the same situation. Akismet is good at catching the robotic spam, just the human spam will get through (though to be honest, the human spam has appeared a few times in the Akismet bucket). It's a shame, as it could really hurt the dofollow movement, one guy last week basically went through all my articles that were PR 1+, and left a comment!.
blog is a real estate. real estate comes with responsibility. so i agree with blog owners who are willing to put comments policy and go thru with the approval things to exclude spam. just take look at google what they do when there been massive spamming. they put guideline and more guideline to get quality result. comments added values to blog. giving love link to comment would bring more value and with value comes heavy responsibility.
blog comments is a day way for link building because google can detect blog comments and it may consider you as a spammer
this is my blog: http://sitefunda.com/ but if the comments looks like spammy i won't accept them, cheers!
Great, let's all make a list of blogs that pass link weight in comments so we can fill them full of comment spam. You could all be using your time much more productively. - Matt
This isn't a bad way to use your time if you only comment GOOD comments on popular blogs that are related to your niche. But just commenting blindly is like hunting flies with a shotgun. You'll waste a lot of time and be disappointed with the results.
I just joined the do follow movement also. I am concerned that people spamming unrelated blogs with junk comments will bring the do follow movement to a grinding halt.