Please No Anchor Text In Comment Names

September 8th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Just a friendly reminder to readers to please use real names in comment names and not anchor text.  I think I’m being generous enough by following comments, so please don’t take advantage of my kindness.   I go through the comments every day or so and remove urls from any comments where I see anchor text, so in the long run, you won’t get any benefit from it.

I know that certain blogs have encouraged readers to do this, but I find it really annoying, particularly when I see people who quite clearly leave just enough ‘me too’, ‘great post’, ‘thanks!’ etc comments in one go in order to appear in the top commentators section, and then are never seen again.

Thanks

Everton

Related Posts

Bookmark

  Digg it   Save This Page   Google
Enjoyed This Post? Subscribe To Get Updates!

About the Author

author photo

Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.

See All Posts by This Author

« FIFA 08 Xbox360 And Playstation 3 Demo Release Date Confirmed Now A Single LED Could Replace Your Household Bulb »

There Are 8 Responses So Far. »

  1. 1

    Comment by Wallace on 8 September 2007:

    this is why i do not install “u comment i follow” stupid plugin.

  2. 2

    Comment by Newpilates on 8 September 2007:

    Wallace, your comment is useless, you are probably one of those scam!

    Veronica

  3. 3

    Comment by Martin on 8 September 2007:

    That blog spam is really a big problem, I tend to delete any comment that looks spammy.

  4. 4

    Comment by Pablo on 8 September 2007:

    well it’s not a bad idea to be honest.

    But there are people that just come and dont care about your blog so they see the opportunity and spam :)

  5. 5

    Comment by Mathew on 8 September 2007:

    I think I was the catalyst for this, now I don’t have an anchortastic pseudonym to hide behind!

  6. 6

    Comment by Everton on 9 September 2007:

    You reminded me Mathew to ask people to stop.

  7. 7

    Comment by Everton on 9 September 2007:

    @Veronica aka Newpilates

    Are you pulling my leg??!!

  8. 8

    Comment by abhishek on 10 September 2007:

    Well i can’t agree more.The blogs do use dofollow just as a contribution toward the commenter but the blog spammers really ruin the whole idea.The possible reason i think of some blogs not allowing dofollow is that they don’t want to moderate every comment.
    Cheers
    Abhishek

Subscribe without commenting

Post a Response

Comment Policy: Any comments are permitted only because the site owner is letting you post, and any comments could be removed for any reason at the absolute discretion of the site owner.