Comments on: Signatures in Blog Comments

By: Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:22:07 +0000

Hi,

I think many users of the internet are much like to the reading of the peoples ideas about their sites or blogs,In this way the owner of the sites or blogs know about the essential parts of the sites for example what new tools are information will be added,and what take new steps to promoting their sites.

By: Rhonda Sherwood

Rhonda Sherwood — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:06:50 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts on this. I am new to the ‘blogging/comment’ world and have left my site after I express my comments. I didnt realize it could be thought as a bit over the top. So going forward I will stop doing it. So much to learn…..

By: Lara Kulpa

Lara Kulpa — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:59:46 +0000

Um… BillinDetroit? I just checked YOUR blog… Comments in your blog are nofollowed also.

By your logic, the only reason the majority of your entries don’t have comments is because you nofollow them? I doubt that anyone reading gardening blogs really bothers to check for that and then decides that no, you’re not worth reading what they have to say.

If you don’t want to leave comments on this or any blog, ONLY because the link you leave doesn’t get you any Google juice, then you’re not in it for the community effort, you’re in it solely for self-promotion, and well, that’s just kind of uncool. Especially when you make such a hypocritical statement like that one.

If you’re such a fan of followed links, I suggest you take a look at home base before you go attacking others for their (honestly, quite valid) reasons.

By: BillinDetroit

BillinDetroit — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:13:06 +0000

I just noticed what you said: “I have no follow tags on most of my blogs”.

So you expect US to bump up your blog without giving US anything in return? I am soooo outta here.

The ‘privelege’ of commenting really isn’t all that big a deal since that act also helps sell your blog.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:18:06 +0000

Hi,

I don’t think that leaving a sign in blog is a bad thing. It is interesting . i think other visitors have no problem with it and they will also appericiate.

By: Maggi

Maggi — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:22:51 +0000

I came across your discussion after doing a search on how to add a signature to a blog comment and I’ve found it very interesting. I’m stunned that it’s been going for over 3 years now and is still attracting interest. But having looked at different blogs it does seem that there is still no standard – some commenters do add signatures, some don’t, so maybe this one will just keep running…
I’m very new to blogging, just in the process of setting up my first blog to support a new website. Although I was aware of blogs before they aren’t something I’ve spent much time looking at until recently, and I can confirm that I didn’t know that clicking on the commenter’s name would take you to their website or blog. In fact I just discovered it today! And anyway sometimes it doesn’t do this, or it takes you to some sort of profile instead.
I do agree that someone’s name is unlikely to tell you much about their website/blog unless they’ve chosen a name that specifically relates to it (as some people clearly do looking at some of the earlier posts), but it does seem that blogging, and commenting on other people’s blogs is being promoted as a key way to generate interest and traffic, so in this context including your sitename in your signature would seem to make sense, as long as you don’t go overboard with it. It’s a lot more subtle than some of the other in-your-face methods that some people seem to choose.
Thank you for helping me build my knowledge about blogging. I hope I’ll eventually have a blog that people will want to read and make valid comments on too!
And I’ll be back for more lessons in responsible blogging…

By: James

James — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:06:39 +0000

It is a general practice to put your site name in comments. i do not think there is any harm in this, if your comments are genuine.

By: Branko

Branko — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:59:17 +0000

ya i only leave my site if it has anything to do with the post or thread otherwise i don’t and i consider it as spam.

By: ForceTrainer

ForceTrainer — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:38:41 +0000

I’m definitely very late to this conversation, but I agree that signatures (and the inevitable links they contain) are completely okay. As long as the person is contributing to the discussion it doesn’t really matter to me.

I believe that when you comment in a public forum (and also give someone the ability to make those comments) there is the expectation that there will be some type of self-promotion. We run blogs so that people will read our thoughts, and we work hard to promote them. Well, if someone leaves good comments and helps to build the value of your site you shouldn’t be surprised when they do the same. The line, however, should be drawn when it’s nothing but link spam.

As far as knowing that clicking on someone’s name will bring you to their URL? For the most part I disagree with that. I think most people that are just browsing sites and not well versed in the comment realm will just think it’s an email link or something and not bother. Besides, I like to see a URL or description of where I’m going – you won’t find me randomly clicking on people links.

With that being said, here’s my sig :) A single link with a tiny description – not so bad, right?

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ForceTrainer
Find out how two geeks manage to get into shape without killing themselves at http://www.hardbodygeeks.com

By: Modern Man

Modern Man — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:41:28 +0000

I think sigs in links are good, as it keeps a users web surfing experience interesting.

Think about this: If you visited 10 new websites per week for the next 40 years, it would only be 20,800 sites…there are millions onilne.

Here’s mine.

http://www.themodernman.com/top_5_mistakes_with_women_vid.html

Cheers
Dan

By: e-okul

e-okul — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:05:05 +0000

Signatures are ok if they are little and haven`t many links

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:28:45 +0000

Darren said – don’t most blog readers know that if they want to read more from a commenter that they just click their name?

No. Many blog readers don’t know that. I agree with a lot of the previous comment leavers who said it’s not intuitive, it’s not spelled out anywhere, and bloggers new to blogging aren’t going to know that, just like they’re not going to know a multitude of things we’ve all learnt and are still learning.

Also a lot of bloggers on “blogger” who comment, the link to their name leads to their profile if they are logged in to google when they comment. Considering I read blogs with google reader, I’m always logged into google when I’m commenting. ;) So I got into the habit of leaving a little cut and paste signature with my name and a link to my blog. People can copy and paste it if they want to, it doesn’t get turned into a link by blogger. I don’t use ahref to do it because some blogs don’t allow that.

At first most of the blogs I read were on blogger, but as I’ve branched out I’ve begun to read wordpress blogs, typepad blogs, blogs from many different platforms. Some of them were treating my comments as spam (akismet seems to be the major culprit) simply because of my signature.

Then I became a part of the no follow movement, and found out that some wordpress bloggers did not like me leaving the links because they were using akismet and it put me in the spam bin and they had to go to all the effort of digging me out. I felt like I needed to give them a tissue, just so they could get over it. ;) And guess what, I don’t visit those blogs or leave comments on them anymore.

I have now stopped putting the little link under my signature and I noticed an interesting thing – the search term snoskred has become the number one way people are finding my blog. I feel terrible that people have to google me to find my blog and wish I could go back to leaving that signature block on all blogs again.

It’s difficult for a blogger like me. It’s such a slap in the face when someone thinks I’m a spammer, I was just doing what I thought made sense. I even wrote a little thing about it and put it on my sidebar.

So just in case anyone is looking for me, you can find me at www dot snoskred dot org – and maybe that is the better solution for me long term. Nobody can accuse me of trying to get a link or be a spammer if I use that, right?

I won’t be surprised if I’m wrong on that one, too. :(

Snoskred.

By: Shakopee

Shakopee — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:37:31 +0000

I bet a lot of them don’t know about nofollow tags, so they just think they’re creating a bunch of backlinks.

By: RadicalAndrew

RadicalAndrew — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:18:25 +0000

Will Memphis win it all? I doubt it. My money is going on Georgetown, Texas, or Kansas. But ya never know..

Somebody could come up and win it all from nowhere. But please enough of Florida already!

By: costco

costco — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:18:05 +0000

Your website is beautifully decorated and easily navigated. I have enjoyed visiting this site today and hope to visit many more times in the future.

By: jo

jo — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:54:28 +0000

I think people shouldn?t be allowed to promote their own blogs simply by replying to similarly related blogs. If they have
a non blog site, then they should be able to leave that link for their efforts in responding to your topic, as long as the
response addresses the topic.

By: smith

smith — Mon, 15 May 2006 07:03:11 +0000

The bottom line is that I’m feeling re-energized about blogging, more focused, and I’m looking forward to the remainder of the month in this makeover process. At the end of that month, I’m confident that I’ll know how to make my blog sizzle “ and I’ll proudly display that Blog Squad seal of approval!.
thanks

By: mark catanzareti

mark catanzareti — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:52:22 +0000

I think people shouldn’t be allowed to promote their own blogs simply by replying to similarly related blogs. If they have a non blog site, then they should be able to leave that link for their efforts in responding to your topic, as long as the response addresses the topic.
Mark C.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:03:08 +0000

very amusing – not sure who David is – but I’m happy to leave the link mainly because his comment is relevant to the post. odd link to link to but in the scheme of things not too much of a worry to me as I have no follow tags in comments anyway.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:37:02 +0000

I thought the comment from “David” on 26th December might refer to my comments, so wondered who “David” might be – when I clicked on his linked name I found an online pills store with a picture of a pleasant looking man in a white coat but no indication of a blog or of whether the man in the white coat might be David :) No doubt “David” has a curious sense of humour? Or is it just comment spam? Darren?