Comments on: Comments & Spam vs. No Comments & Low Spam

By: Carpet Cleaning

Carpet Cleaning — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:10:49 +0000

I think if the comment has a good insight about your topic why not to keep them.. it gives a relevancy of your topic and a quality on it.

but if the comments have no sense at all you can delete it.

By: nunotu

nunotu — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:33:28 +0000

It is very relative what is and what is not spam. I think that a simple opinion is not spam. Perhaps the 90% of all comments are very simple, yes, but not all spam. It is very difficult to have in a blog, forum or whatever a 100% good quality comments.

By: Turkish

Turkish — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:27:43 +0000

I don't agree with shutting down your comments facility either. I am the same as you, very often I will go searching in google and the old threads will come up first as they have had more chance to circulate the internet. If I have a question to ask the blog poster and i can not give my two penneth then it is annoying.

Better to sift through the spam or just make your blog no follow.

By: Sexual Adult RP

Sexual Adult RP — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:28:43 +0000

If you are going to set a closing time on blog posts (whether it is an erotica blog, a sexual roleplaying blog, SEO blog, etc.) you are better off using a blacklisting system of some kind (e.g. how Habari handles it) that actually filters out the spam rather than just narrowing the window of opportunity.

By: VHS to DVD

VHS to DVD — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:14:16 +0000

I can understand the balance that larger blogs may need to strike between comments and spam. For more popular blogs, the % of comments made within the first 3-4 days is probably very high from their regular users. For less-traficked blogs, the % of comments made 15+ days after the post is probably a bit higher due to SE pickup, or new readers finding content and wanting to contribute. If you have other means of managing true spam within the site, I think it reflects the true nature of blogs to leave comments open.

By: Cottage Rental

Cottage Rental — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:04:54 +0000

Both are in the same stand…,Closing the old posts,this will reduce the page rank as the number of posts reduces…

By: Link Building

Link Building — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:44:12 +0000

I feel its better to allow every one to add comment.It improves traffic.which helps in gaining good alexa rank.
I am maintaining a site related to health.It is completely filled with comments from last 15 days.But the great thing is that my page impressions got improved a lot when compared to last month

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:20:47 +0000

I agre with hgh2 , i use capcha plugin , seems to work ok, also I disallow all comments that have any links in them. My sites are all do follow, but I no longer allow keyword links, only the names or initials of the commenter as this opens the flood gates for spam.
Jon cow uses his mailing list for traffic and so doesnot need google for traffic, unlike the rest of us.
I also found that when the posts are relegated to the archive they do not recieve se traffic , I htink this is to do with the sitemap xml plugin , but I make sure all posts are linked from the home page in a menu, obviously the more posts you have access to the more keywords you can get from google.
Emms

By: Montreal web design

Montreal web design — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:36:24 +0000

Great post, I would say that if the comments on a blog or a forum is relevant to the discussion, I don't mind about spam!

By: psychics

psychics — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:01:16 +0000

I haven't heard of this site but if you can do this then report the spammers and also write a message on your website saying that any spammers will be reported. That should scare them off.