Commenting rules

April 17th, 2009

First, thank you for all who visit this blog.  It continues to grow in popularity and I am sincerely appreciative.  But….

I’m not sure whether its because my site got updated to a page rank of 3 in April or just the general increased traffic but I’m getting a lot more comments that don’t follow my simple rule of no keywords in the name field.  The rule is posted directly in the comment form so people shouldn’t claim ignorance. Many sites do not mind this but I just can’t stand having to respond to people’s comments as “iphone” or “colon health”.

Starting today if people post keywords instead of a name it’s getting marked as spam.  For those who don’t realize the importance of this, I use Akismet and most other dofollow sites do too.  If you get marked as spam a couple times by Akismet you are effectively blocked from posting comments on all Akismet sites.  Trust me you don’t want that.

Please understand I appreciate the valuable comments and am more than willing to give dofollow backlinks but

Posting Tips, Quality Control, Search Engine Update

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Commenting rules:

1. Comments must be of value and add to the current post.

2. Do not add links within the comment. You already get a link from your name - Don't get greedy.

3. No misspelled words or 3rd grade English. I appreciate that English is not everyone's first language but sentence fragments without punctuation is more likely spam.