Blogging Ethics

I would say never is it ethical! You go girl! I do not even think about those things….it does not bring regular readers, just clickers.

I did answer your question on my blog by editing the post. I hope that helps you. Since you are not using Blogspot, you may need to read Feedburner’s forums to find the help to redirect your blog.

Bloggers often complain to me they get few comments so I can see why they might be tempted to pay for comments. But paying for comments is missing the whole point about social networking. I don’t get a ton of comments on my blog, but what I do get are authentic and I’m building a genuine network which is what social networking is all about. In fact, as I was writing this comment, one of the first commenters on my blog, Manchild is his username, called to talk about printing his books. Manchild left his first comment 4 months ago, but today we closed a deal. Real success takes time.

Hi Lillie,

thanks for adding my entry to the list. I’m really pissed about the paid comments issue, but not really in the way you highlight it here. I am pissed about bloggers who ask their commentators to pay to get the nofollow removed from their links. That’s really sick. I mean: a commentator brings value to my blog. He/she comes with new ideas, enhances the content on the page, etc.

I read a lot of things about this lately. I just stumbled upon John Warras site, and I must admit that I don’t have a clear opinion about the subject.

Is leveraging your efforts spam if you just don’t add junk comments? I don’t know… I am thinking about it.

This is an interesting debate. I have a few clients I write web-text for and they often use different types of SEO services from various companies. Forum and blog posting are among the things they use but unless it’s done properly, without spamming, I believe the long time positive aspects are relatively small. When paid to do stuff, especially on an industrial scale like posting on 100 blogs, the people doing it will resort to short and spammy comments, which won’t stay up that long.

I agree with Philip. Comments need to be genuine. It would be cool though if anyone knows of a comment aggregating service that will show me all of the comments I have made all in one place. I read a lot of great blogs and try to comment when appropriate. If there was a tracker out there that would be a good service.

This was an interesting article.

I’ve never taken the time to read anything about spam because it really does piss me off and cause me to waste precious time deleting it from my in-box.

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