I have been following the yellow brick road tonight on the Ucomment IFollow topic. This is huge, and so important.

I was looking for directories and lists of other dofollow blogs and ways to connect with other “mommy bloggers” and found your site! Lots of good info here and I plan to visit often! Thanks! Claire

“Btw can you tell me how you go about making money with amazon?”

I’ve been posting articles on just this subject at my site – have a look at this post particularly:

http://blogsformoney.com/post/Making-Money-from-Adwords-and-Amazon-Associates-without-a-Website.aspx

I’ve just jumped over here from David Airey’s blog. I really just getting started in the whole blogging/networking world so will be taking my time over your posts and trying to absorb as much info as possible. From the first section I’ve read though, you sound incredibly busy! And, as I someone has already said, I feel tired just reading what you’ve been up to, but it’s all so exciting!
Good luck with all the improvements you’ve made so far and all those to come.

TrishA

If I’m not sure if the comment is a genuine thanks but the page is low pr (so no link love benefit to the poster) then I usually give them the benefit of the doubt. But I am constantly reviewing how I manage it.

My tech blog is fairly low traffic at the moment only being a few months old, so my process may change in the future but for now its fairly easily for me to manually make a judgement call on each comment.

I have to really screen these kinds of comments now, and it ends up hurting more than just the spammer in the process. If I don’t know the commenter, I visit their site and check it out:

–Does it have an Alexa or Google Page Rank?
–Is it a blog with a real person writing it, or is it an ecommerce site (or worse, a made for AdSense site)?
–Did they actually add to the conversation at all, even a little bit?
–Did they leave keywords in the ‘Name’ field? (Usually a dead giveaway)!

I’m sure that sometimes I delete legit comments sometimes, but my comment policy is pretty strict – if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc. then it’s gone.

The obvious ones I flag as spam to teach Akismet for future comments. But if I’m in doubt and still don’t want it on the site, at least I just delete it.

If they are real people with something real to say, they will be back.

I’m on the list as well but a bit further down..I have noticed though that since I got placed on his list and made the fact that my blog follows links I get more comments but many seem to contain little to no actual content.

Have you noticed anything similar? I’m starting to get worried that people are commenting just to get link love and not to contribute to the discussion!