Comments on: The Rules of the Conversation http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com/blog/06-the-rules-of-the-conversation WebSite Marketing Consultants Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:18:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bob Selden http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com/blog/06-the-rules-of-the-conversation#comment-46997 Bob Selden Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:58:19 +0000 http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com/blog/06-the-rules-of-the-conversation#comment-46997 Thanks Matt. Great article. I am a real amateur when it comse to Blogs and SEO, in fact I am in the people business (an organisational psychologist), so I can readilly relate to your "conversation analogy". I rarely reply to articles or blogs, but this one hit a nerve with me. I submit a lot of articles to various websites and am really annoyed when they put advertising hyperlinks into my artîcles in the guise of a knowledge or comment link. One of my favourite business management sites (which shall remain annonymous) only started up 12 months ago and quickly developed a great reputation. Unfortunately, they have just started the hyperlink practise, so I will no longer be using them or recommending them to any one else. Thanks once again for your article, Bob Selden. Thanks Matt. Great article. I am a real amateur when it comse to Blogs and SEO, in fact I am in the people business (an organisational psychologist), so I can readilly relate to your “conversation analogy”. I rarely reply to articles or blogs, but this one hit a nerve with me. I submit a lot of articles to various websites and am really annoyed when they put advertising hyperlinks into my artîcles in the guise of a knowledge or comment link. One of my favourite business management sites (which shall remain annonymous) only started up 12 months ago and quickly developed a great reputation. Unfortunately, they have just started the hyperlink practise, so I will no longer be using them or recommending them to any one else.
Thanks once again for your article, Bob Selden.

]]> By: Bill Hartzer http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com/blog/06-the-rules-of-the-conversation#comment-30694 Bill Hartzer Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:33:44 +0000 http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com/blog/06-the-rules-of-the-conversation#comment-30694 Great post...it's true that you can definitely see right away whether the comment is there because that person wants to comment on your post or whether they're just commenting for the link or not. Those programming the blog comment bots are getting more sophisticated, but they're still a bot--they generally don't have intelligence and thus they just make a comment that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual post. In the case above, though, the "SEO" blog spammer might have narrowed down the general topic of SEO blogs and posted the same thing or something similar to a lot of blogs--it might still be a bot. Have you tried to actually search for that comment in quotes to see how many other people have been spammed with that same "comment"? At this point I'm not sure if it's actually a bot or not, as there's only five results for "Really great SEO Article and very helpful." in Google right now. Great post…it’s true that you can definitely see right away whether the comment is there because that person wants to comment on your post or whether they’re just commenting for the link or not.

Those programming the blog comment bots are getting more sophisticated, but they’re still a bot–they generally don’t have intelligence and thus they just make a comment that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual post.

In the case above, though, the “SEO” blog spammer might have narrowed down the general topic of SEO blogs and posted the same thing or something similar to a lot of blogs–it might still be a bot.

Have you tried to actually search for that comment in quotes to see how many other people have been spammed with that same “comment”? At this point I’m not sure if it’s actually a bot or not, as there’s only five results for “Really great SEO Article and very helpful.” in Google right now.

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