SEO Toronto: March 2021

So I just deleted (moderated) over 100 spam comments on SEO Toronto, deleting all of them except one.

The only legitimate comment (that was not spam) was a guy who said "hi" on the following blog post:

https://seoto.blogspot.com/2014/02/social-media-experts-funny.html

So out of 108 comments, only one of them was a real genuine comment. The other 107 were all spam comments, largely from my idiotic competitors in the SEO industry, and including a few which were "Toronto SEO" specific, which means that they were my direct competitors here in Toronto.

Why does that make a difference?

Well, I only work locally for clients I meet IN PERSON. This is more difficult these days with COVID, but whatever. The principle is the same. Unless I can shake my client's hand then I am not interested in having them as a client.

So it bothers me that once in awhile I have to delete spammy comments from my blogs, but to be fair I only moderate an individual blog's comments once every 2-3 years, and I have the setting set to Moderation Required for the comments to even appear. This means that anyone dumb enough to post spam comments never gets their comment to see the intended audience and any links in the comments never gets to benefit their business.

Hence why spamming comments on random blogs doesn't actually help anyone's business with respect to SEO. In order to get the comment approved you really need to get the owner of the blog to LIKE your comment and choose to approve it. Which isn't going to happen if it is remotely spammy.

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This is why commenting on a friend's blog actually makes more sense.

If you post comments on the blog of a friend or colleague (someone you know personally) they won't mind so much if you include a link in your comment, and presumably you actually put more time and effort into writing your comment and making it personal.

Then the person seeing the comment is a friend, is friendly to your cause/business, and is highly likely to approve your comment.

Most blogs these days have Moderation Required before any comments get seen by an audience. Any blogs that don't have that setting turned on will likely be riddled with hundreds (or thousands) of comments from people, which means any links in the comments section will be diluted and basically useless with respect to SEO.

Commenting on a friend or colleague's blog however is really many times more effective because it is 99.99% guaranteed that your friend will approve the comment, assuming you only leave 1 comment that isn't "spammy" and is a genuine comment. Leaving a dozen very spammy comments is likely to just annoy your friend and still get deleted.

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It might take me 2-3 years to read your comment and answer it, but at least you will be posting genuine comments instead of spam.

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