Ken

In the end people who leave real comments are increasing your content, no matter what their name is. If you are just going to throw away comments because the people increasing your content want something in return, you are petty and unworthy of being read and commented on especially if you already are nofollow. Show your commentators some respect and you will get it in return.

When bloggers leave a one time comment on my Typepad blog and enter their url should I leave it or delete it?

Once in a while they are relevant nice comments but i usually know which ones just stopped by to say something that I would ignore so they can add there link. Can that hurt my own Google rank or SEO numbers?
I have been deleting the Url’s of non relevant sites and only leaving the comment if it’s relavant to the post. Is that recommended? Or should I delete them all together or leave them alone?

I am sorry to ask so many questions but we have only been blogging a month and don’t know what to do.
Thank you all so much and God Bless.
Darrin & Josy

I think if someone recognizes your “name,” they are more likely to lend your comment to being credible. And since, in my area (sports) people are more likely to recognize my site name rather than my individual name (since there are 6 collective writers on my site), I use my site name as my “name.”

By the way, nofollow doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get no credit for links. It just means that Google doesn’t share some of the page rank/Google juice, whatever you want to call it from the site.

Anyway, I think it’s interesting how people use their keywords or sites names.
- domainname.com
- firstname @ domainname (without com)
- firstname >> Site Title
- firstname from the blog title
- Site Name

etc. I wonder which goes over best? Personally I’d never use the @ because a bot could come along and translate it into an email address.

Burton

For my personal blog, however, I’d like to be allowed to think that commenters are responding in a genuine way to the post, and it’s hard to maintain that pleasant illustion when faced with a bunch of keywords.

The other day, I was soundly chastised by one commenter for editing out the keywords in his name field — he thought I should be grateful that he was “helping search engines to know what this blog is about”! Wasn’t that thoughtful? Of course, it would have been even more so if his keywords were remotely on target… :D

many webmaster thinking that its a good idea to leave keywords but they may mark as spam

Spam is unsolicited email.

Comment Spam is a made up word like Wiccan but does represent an intrusion so we let it live.

But a word on a web comment, written by a real person, that represents that person’s topic (like the subtitle on a business card that explains what you do) is just fine.

Bloggers who over-freak-out about using keywords in comment URL anchor text are probably broke anyway.

Why do you think there IS a separate field in the comment field anway – it’s for anchor text! A clue…

Rick Butts