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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