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How to you handle comments posted to your review site?

by moneycometh
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How to you handle comments posted to your review site, which has no revelance to the site or the topic being discussed.

Here is a comment for a health review site:

"Zune and iPod: Most people compare the Zune to the Touch, but after seeing how slim and surprisingly small and light it is, I consider it to be a rather unique hybrid that combines qualities of both the Touch and the Nano. It's very colorful and lovely OLED screen is slightly smaller than the touch screen, but the player itself feels quite a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as much, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, while being just a hair thicker."


or


"Stop paying for backlinks. $50 in free link credits go to http://PRLINKJUICER.INFO and use this Promotion code: CCentiveBest50"


As you can see from the above neither comments has anything to do with my health related review site. :confused:
#comments #handle #review #site
  • Profile picture of the author mgallone
    They're both obviously spam. I'd imagine they have a link back to a site reviewing these products.

    With my amazon review sites, I typically check through the comments once every now and then, only approving comments that are actually relevant and clearly not spam.

    To be honest though, I don't see the need to have comments on a site such as this anyway- though your case may be different.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Burton
    Reject them as spam, and move on.

    That's why *IF* I go for blog comments for links/traffic, I insist on them being RELEVANT. If I were paying someone for commenting, they would be notified up front that the comments must be relevant and provide value. If they don't, they don't get paid for them.

    Which is also why in the few cases I have used comments for links, I hire an individual for the commenting, not a 'service' I tend to pay more per link, but the links have more staying power.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andre Slater
    Don't take it personal, most of these comments are generated by computers. That's why they are so generic. They are hoping you will ok it so they get a backlink. They are targeting wordpress sites in their category...
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguelito203
    Originally Posted by moneycometh View Post

    How to you handle comments posted to your review site, which has no revelance to the site or the topic being discussed.

    Here is a comment for a health review site:

    "Zune and iPod: Most people compare the Zune to the Touch, but after seeing how slim and surprisingly small and light it is, I consider it to be a rather unique hybrid that combines qualities of both the Touch and the Nano. It's very colorful and lovely OLED screen is slightly smaller than the touch screen, but the player itself feels quite a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as much, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, while being just a hair thicker."


    or


    "Stop paying for backlinks. $50 in free link credits go to http://PRLINKJUICER.INFO and use this Promotion code: CCentiveBest50"


    As you can see from the above neither comments has anything to do with my health related review site. :confused:
    I made sure to set my comments to where I have to approve all of them and found a plugin that forces the person to input captcha code, which has cut down on spam. A lot of them also get caught by the spam filter.

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  • Profile picture of the author IMSince2003
    Yep, that's right Joey, you got it. Set the options in WP to either turn off comments entirely OR set them to always needing approval from an admin. That will do it in most cases. Oh, and don't forget akismet and the captcha plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rach72
    I knew about the comment approval process, but not the captcha plugin - that would be really handy - OK off to install it!
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  • Profile picture of the author underthegun
    Akismet Akismet Akismet... that is all.
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  • Profile picture of the author gaffg
    always approve manually and even for real users if they are posting a 2 liner just for a link then it is best to either reject or remove the link.
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  • Profile picture of the author powertel
    I get over 30 comments per day for all my review sites and 90% are Spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author stevet563
    Hi moneycometh,

    I use wordpress as a platform and in wordpress, you can simply not allow comments in you dashboard. The best way to handle comments is to not allow comments in a review type situation.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul200
    Heres a way to get yourself free content form the spam posts. As the above poster said review all your comments and approve all the non spam comments. The ones which are left just edit them to what you want them to say but take out any website urls and leave thier email addresses and names unless the names are just plain stupid. You end up with free content from spammers with a little of your own imput

    Your blog is most prob on some lists for using xrumer or other automated spam software
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    • Profile picture of the author advertisethis
      Originally Posted by Paul200 View Post

      The ones which are left just edit them to what you want them to say but take out any website urls and leave thier email addresses and names unless the names are just plain stupid. You end up with free content from spammers with a little of your own imput
      Hehe. I like this idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author cooler1
    I've heard that having comments enabled dilutes on page SEO. Is that correct?
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    • Profile picture of the author marknel
      Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

      I've heard that having comments enabled dilutes on page SEO. Is that correct?
      I think too many outgoing links on any page dilute the page rank..(Im not sure nor tested this) Regarding spammy comments..one can have the nofollow tag or give dofollow only after certain number of useful comments.
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  • Profile picture of the author braincandy7
    Although i advise to ignore most of the spam if your blog is very new it might be good to accept a few if they have any sort of relevance. Google does like to see activity on sites and blogs so when the site is new and does not have much traffic it can be useful to let a few but only a few scrape through.

    They need to at least look like a comment about the topic though.
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  • Profile picture of the author EvanBeck
    I don't really have review sites, but run quite a few niche blogs. I have gotten to the point where I just comments off. Too many spammers. lol
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