My Travels on the Net

My blog is set up so that I have to approve comments. And like everyone else in the world, I HATE SPAM. So imagine how happy I was to get the following comment on my last blog post which was about copy writing from "Justin_AKL". According to Justin's profile, he's a programmer. I can tell from Justin’s comment that he is trying to get his site (or his client’s site, or the site he’s an affiliate for) to rank for "Article Post Robot" and "article submission sites". You can tell this because those are the words that are hyperlinked in his fake comment.

Making the rather questionable assumption that “Justin” is a real person*, as opposed to an outsourced company in India or South America that has no strategy behind internet marketing, Justin has screwed up on so many levels it warrants a blog post from me:
* When you go to the Article Post Robot website, all the glowing recommendations are for “David” not “Justin.”

Here’s why this comment is wrong in so many ways:

• First of all, you’ve pissed off a D List blogger to the point that she is willing to dedicate a post to your scatter-shot approach to internet marketing. So if you were hoping to get traffic, you’re f’ed. Any traffic from this blog is going to be gawkers looking at the scene of the accident.


• Secondly, the links in your comment won’t help your rankings because Blogger comment links are nofollow links!


• Your product has nothing to do with the blog post! So even if I approved the comment so readers could see it, it wouldn’t be appealing to them because it has nothing to do with what they were reading about.

Congratulations. Your one size fits all approach to internet marketing has done more damage than good. Was that worth the time savings of automating your internet marketing campaign?

Labels: spam, spam comment

posted by Elge Premeau  # 6:09 PM