Blog Comment Spam aka How Not To Get Featured On Affilate Sites

Author: Keith

18 May

Jason Dale at One little Duck recently wrote about agency’s and merchants who go to extraordinary lengths to promote themselves on forums by pretending to be something they are not here is the article Why Forum Seeding Can Sometimes Backfire!

This problem of attempting to get free links spread around the internet is not however limited to forums, it is also very prevalent on blogs, a merchant or their agency will leave comments on blogs sometimes surreptitiously but often quiet blatantly;

For example the spam comment may simply say:- those dresses are amazing and the merchant link will be in the posters url, or the comment may be along the lines of:- if you like these dresses go to www.merchantsite.com for more!!!

This thread on Affiliates4u has an example of blog comment spam

3 Reasons why you shouldn’t spam affiliate blogs

It hacks off affiliates, making them less inclined to promote you.
Most affiliate blogs have spam filters and once you have posted a few dodgy comments your url / email will be blacklisted.
The default setting for links in comments on wordpress blogs is no-follow, and many of the dofollow plugins require a number of comments before the no-follow attribute is removed.

Your efforts would be better employed talking to blog owners and asking what you can do to get exposure on the site in question. Now if you would like your site or your clients site to be featured more often on affiliate blogs and websites watch this space I shortly will reveal what buttons you can press to get published.

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3 Responses for "Blog Comment Spam aka How Not To Get Featured On Affilate Sites"

zowoco (3 comments.) May 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm 1
There can be a fine line between self promotion and spam, it often depends on the blogger or forum’s policy. I think it is important to enjoy reading blogs and only comment on those posts that really stir you, or where you can really add something useful to the thread. Personally I think forum discussion is way over-rated and simply uses up time I could be using for researching tips and tools or better still, commenting on interesting blogs!
Steve (1 comments.) May 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pm 2
It’s the way of marketing, and of the internet.
Affiliate marketers go to all types of forums and blogs for research.
They look for problems people need solving.
Once they have the solution to the problem they drop a link to that solution.

They also do a lot of research to find that solution and in doing so answer questions posted On forums and comment on blogs, I don’t see any problem with that, if it’s not blatant spam
I would say a link is a good payback for taking part.
The Shoppers List (1 comments.) March 4th, 2010 at 1:58 pm 3
What is ‘SPAM’ & What is ‘Marketing’

It gets me every time…because; no-one and I mean no-one, is calling the advertising posted mail-shot ‘SPAM’ and making laws against it (Albeit you can opt out)…but you can opt out of receiving emails…can’t you?
I wonder would it be because big business, can afford the expensive posted mail shots, email packages and TV advertising and the small marketers cannot and then when the internet came along and big business seen that the small guy found it an affordable way to market his or her product, they invented the dirty word ‘SPAM’.

We get unsolicited advertising in our home called TV advertising. They even increase the sound by 3 decibels to make us notice, but they don’t call this ‘SPAM’. (Us small fry can’t afford this either.)

I only broach the subject because I am a small guy trying to get my product namely my shopping site ‘TheShoppersList.net’ up there with the big boys…I don’t promote anything that is bad or can’t be shopped for on the high street or seen or heard in all walks of life…but let me send an email advertising my site to someone who didn’t ask for it and WOW!!!!!…THEY’LL BAR ME FROM THE INTERNET AND THROW ME IN JAIL!!!!!.

My mailbox is full of what they call ‘SPAM’, i.e. emails for sex, drugs & scams, the very thing they said would stop if they called it ‘SPAM’ and made it illegal; Doesn’t seem to have made a difference, except against the real small advertisers who can’t afford expensive posted mail shots, email packages and TV advertising.

So once again the minnows lose out to the establishment on a platform that is supposed to be free!!!!
Or am I into…. “Conspiracy Theories”.

Please comment.