Google Concerns - Blog Comments
Posted 15th December 2009 at 01:51 PM by jazbo
I only realised I had a blog on the forum today!
Personally I am looking forward to a break over Christmas, it's been a long few months with little time away from the PC.
Professionally I am concerned at the number of people who might get caught out by Google's webmaster blog post about blog comment spam.
It points to a focus on this type of spam, and the clear implication in the post is they can track it and punish it.
Now to break a threshold to get your comments ignored or for further investigation/action to happen I reckon you would have to break a large barrier, maybe several thousand comments a day. But consider the volumes that some people on this forum claim they are chucking around with software at best it could be a waste of time and money and at worst they are storing up an increasing chance of a slap from Google.
I will be scaling back my automated efforts from now on, at least in terms of linkbuilding, and will be focusing on using mass commenting for traffic generation through name dropping instead.
You need to review your linkbuilding strategy going into 2010.
Personally I am looking forward to a break over Christmas, it's been a long few months with little time away from the PC.
Professionally I am concerned at the number of people who might get caught out by Google's webmaster blog post about blog comment spam.
It points to a focus on this type of spam, and the clear implication in the post is they can track it and punish it.
Now to break a threshold to get your comments ignored or for further investigation/action to happen I reckon you would have to break a large barrier, maybe several thousand comments a day. But consider the volumes that some people on this forum claim they are chucking around with software at best it could be a waste of time and money and at worst they are storing up an increasing chance of a slap from Google.
I will be scaling back my automated efforts from now on, at least in terms of linkbuilding, and will be focusing on using mass commenting for traffic generation through name dropping instead.
You need to review your linkbuilding strategy going into 2010.
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Yeah, I've never trusted automated comments. I tested it myself and found the results not worth the effort, compared to doing your own commenting, or hiring/finding guest posters and getting them to do the commenting.
What have you discovered since mid-December?Posted 23rd January 2010 at 01:30 AM by Tinu
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Well Tinu I can actually say I am still finding no value from automated link runs on blogs. I am however finding money in doing mass MARKETING post runs, ie no link, but dropping a site name in or a product name.
Quote:Originally Posted by Tinu
Yeah, I've never trusted automated comments. I tested it myself and found the results not worth the effort, compared to doing your own commenting, or hiring/finding guest posters and getting them to do the commenting.
What have you discovered since mid-December?Posted 3rd February 2010 at 06:42 AM by jazbo
