Thank you for all the comments you leave on this blog, every single one of them. It always takes some nerves to post ones thoughts for everybody (I just wish my thoughts would reach everybody) to see. I think here is the cause for so many "Hello, world" or "Great post!" comments. We are afraid of controversy and therefore keep our communication within comfort zone.
I don't want to be that person who keeps on commenting the same "Great post, X!" over and over nor I want to find controversial angel to get attention. I plan to donate some content for the blogs I follow by slightly more thought out commenting. I believe this will contribute to the quality of the original post (I don't know whether comments give more value for the post, but I do know that bad comments devalue it).
This whole commenting thingy just recently struck me while running a name search on a competitor (I was doing that benchmark thingy). What I found out was that my benchmark had many well written articles all over net, because he had posted them on one article sharing site. He also had equally many comments if not more in various forums and blogs. While forum comments were often well written, blog comments were total garbage just pure copy-paste flooding. I wouldn't go all over net and leave trails and trails of shoddy comments pointing straight at me. Or maybe I did...
Are blogs so alien a media for established internet marketers that they resort to communication by example or what??? In his case it can't be fear of exposing oneself to the world, he had done it for years. Then it hit me, he didn't stop to read the post, he just used it as a SEO tool, he didn't find the discussed topic especially interesting. What a complete disregard of blog writers' efforts, but he sure did like the link he got.
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
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Posted by Jarkko at 22:34
Labels: blogging, internet marketing, links
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I know exactly what you mean about useless comments.
I had one the other day that read "thanks for visiting my blog".
That's it.
I mean, why even bother?
I decided to let it stand, as an example to everyone else of how useless that particular blogger was, but boy it bugged me!
Now that I think about it again, I think I might add a response saying "thank you for your thought~provoking response to my post", just to be nasty.... or should I?
By the way, what is the 'benchmark thingy' you were talking about?
I have always thought that responding on something upsetting is like throwing gasoline into fire - very flammable! I suggest; don't be nasty.
Usually I don't do anything, which works fine, just think how you feel when you worked so hard on a post and then nobody comments on it. However, real world negative contributors won't get that smooth treatment from me. Most people cave in while confronting them face-to-face. Unfortunately such confrontation is impossible in the net.
The benchmarking thingy, wingy :) duh... Yes, like the domain says - our dream plan - is about our idea of making a living with mobile lifestyle. For now this has been mostly rambling of this and that, but we have a general idea how, later on, to bring focus. Rambling was important in getting us out of the gate, now as we are on the track... (so much for that analogy).
What we really have been doing is to develop our product for bloggers and I especially like certain person's way of working on that particular field. So, I just tracked down everything he has done in the net (actually I skimmed through probably 10% of his stuff) and learned from that. Something seemed to work, but something like blog comments were a big screw up.
So after measuring myself against his standards, I came to realize what should I do. Only thing is, I don't quite know HOW to do it. Remember the Jimi Hendrix song - manic depression?
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