Could not resist. Sorry.

Another thing I hate is the conversation betwixt two or three people within the comment section of a blog. If you have a comment about a comment, I suggest an e-mail that references aforementioned comment. Much more appropriate I think.

As for spammers who leave one or two word comments or irrelevant comments, I will remove their url info. They usually don’t come back.

Great basic informative blog about leaving comments – RBP

Expecting to get something from comments is what makes people comment with all the mistakes you have mentioned.

If we expect nothing but just comment for the sake of commenting to agree, disagree, share opinion etc. we will not do all such mistakes.

Thanks!

I learned my lesson and it even gave me content for a blog on making mistakes http://selfleadership.com/blog/topic/leadership/making-a-mistake/

I hope that was relevant self-linking ? :)

As a food blog frequenter, I have always relied on comments from other readers for help – those who have tried the recipe, perhaps perfected it, and related potential pitfalls. I would much rather read someone’s experience with a particular recipe or product, than a “I can’t wait to try this!! -S” any day. I hope I can encourage readers to leave feedback on what worked for them, so that everyone else can benefit from the shared experience. This sort of goes along with Michael Martine’s comment about writing as though your comments were mini guest posts. Contribute or don’t bother.

Thanks!

The advice I would give to anyone wanting to comment is to treat it like it was real life. In real life if you were to constantly dominate a conversation or always talk about self promotion people would visible get annoyed. Since you can’t see the person behind the comment people go wild and leave useless and unnecessary comments.

If you were trying to get a friend to help you out you wouldn’t spam them ten times a day asking them for that favor in real life. You would ask once and remind them once of the favor. After that you would completely let it go.

That and comment on blogs you actually enjoy. If you don’t like the site and you comment it will start to wear on you. Those negative emotions will be linked to the whole process of getting your website off the ground and you won’t enjoy it as much. Then those emotions will be picked up by your readers and it will have an adverse effect on what you originally set out to do.

People have strong intuitions about others. They can smell it when you aren’t being genuine or come with an agenda. Over the internet this intuition is watered down but over time you will be found out.

One should think twice before submitting comment on article or a post, As these comments can increase or decrease your reputation in blogging and internet industry.

It will be good for everyone if the comments are written relevant to the article and not just for link building.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

I am also finding out that with popular blogs, comments that cause flame wars often induce more readers. I guess it is more like the rubber neckers on the freeway at accident time.

Instead of getting quick success…….its highly advisable to..build up a quality matter blog and then try to publish your blog into public domain..!!!!

And do remember its a slow and gradual process..but the end result is always fruitful!!

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I really never seen commenting as a way of promoting myself and its really futile for SEO spammers to abuse them.

At times I tend to get really passionate, be very careful not to lose your cool and personally attack.

That will damage your reputation no matter what.