When I submit comments to blogs I sometimes get some odd things happening. Some submissions are what I'd expect whereby you can see your comment with the words awaiting moderation next to it. Thats fine.... But......... I seem to get 2 other senerios: 1) I submit to a blog and the page refreshes but there is no sign of my comment and no feedback to tell me my comment is awaiting moderation . So has my comment been submitted? Or am I wasting my time? 2) I submit to a blog and the page goes completly blank. So again no idea if my comment has been submitted? Both these happen on a regular basis to me. Any ideas whats going on and if my comments have been submitted? Many thanks. Andy
It most likely depends on the blog software the blogger is using. Some may not report any confirmation that a comment was submitted. Others may run a spam filter looking for various keywords and block them. I know when I code spam captures I usually just tell the script to die. No need telling a spammer anything. Not saying you're spamming, but if you read the blog long enough, youy'll be able to tell if the blogger is approving your comments. You can also try contacting them and asking if they're getting your comments.
Ok thanks. This is an example of the sort page that is blank after I click the Submit button: http://xxxxxxxxxxx.com/wp-comments-post.php its seems this page "...wp-comments-post.php" is always blank for me. I take it wp is Word Press.
Here's the source code for taht: http://wordpress.taragana.net/nav.html?wp-comments-post.php.source.html It is easy enough to mod that to ignore specific words and take out nice error messages like "'Error: please enter a valid email address.". It may also be that they are forwarding you (see line 62) to a blank page, or that you're browser isn't accepting the cookie or any number of things. Look at the comment you're submitting and figure out how the vanilla script should react to it, then figure out what has to have changed to make the script behave the way it does. My money's on a mod that is seeing various keywords in your comment and treating it like spam.
It was probably the type of blogging software it was. I've had this happen to me before. You were probably using some anchor text and spam-like quality posting. No big deal, move on.
Like the others said - some blogs are setup to not send the comments to the moderation queue if the anchor text is spammy. Try to make your anchor text as simple as possible and use no more than 2 words. That works the best
It depends on the software. If the blog is using wordpress you will get the - your comment is awaiting moderation message. If the software being used is blogger you will see no message. On the other hand if this is the url you are being redirected to http://xxxxxxxxxxx.com/wp-comments-post.php Than that's clearly a wordpress blog (Note the wp- preceding the filename)
I get it on evrey comment i post on wordpress blog. When i try to put the post without the url, it goes without problems. Can anyone know what is going on. Tnx Brooke