Hi, Newbie with a few questions about comments and more

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Hi,

I'm new here. I tried to post yesterday and some one must have taken offense to something I wrote and blew my questions to oblivion..

I have been a blogger for a few years and really just trying to start a real IM business.

I am relatively new to WordPress but I have it set up on a few of my new sites.

I am getting some where around 50 to 70 spam comments per day. I know that I can activate Akismet to reduce what I see for spam. But after buying the Domains and Hosting and some other software I am a bit cash poor att.. have to wait for a bit on paying for Akismet.

Has any one tried converting the spam comments in to good comments that actually add to the post or article with or with out the back-links imbedded in the comments?

Its not ethical that they are spamming my site with nonsensical comments so whats the harm of re-writing them?

I have also used a service that post articles out to other blogs if they are a bad service or just throwing them out there is that not helping either?

They are spun articles, but I was very careful on how they are spun so they actually make sense regardless on how random the spin is.

Last question for now.

I watch analytics too much and spend too much time looking a statistics. over the last month (Site was live early Apr) over all bounce rate is only 35% with average time over 2 min on site doesn't Google like that kind of thing?

reason why I ask is because either the Honeymoon is over or feeling an effect (or non effect lol.) of being sandboxed / Dance ???

Was on page 2 for 3 key phrases... now no where to be found in the first 20 or so pages . Site: still shows so have not been de-indexed..

Sorry this is so long.. Will have more questions though IM sure
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