Jadehat, the SEO consultant

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1. reise forum 5.18.08 / 1pm

   You take a nice decision.
2. sandals and flip flops 5.20.08 / 4pm

   Wow, 186 comments?! When I think about it, it could actually be more since you’ve been away for so long. I always have my comments wait to be moderated. I’m online everyday, so I moderate them as they come.
3. zohai 5.20.08 / 11pm

   Yeah I do agree that moderate it before it gets posted would be better =) But then 183 deleted =P Someone’s blog is being abused. Haha!
4. mountain view seo 5.24.08 / 7pm

   Well now that your back it we may give you time to keep up with those comments.Or maybe these link building rules will change again.
5. Design 5.25.08 / 5pm

   I think you get these many spam comments because there are lists of dofollow blogs on the net, and jadehat.com is among them. So.. everyone trying to get some backlinks gets on your website to post spam comments.
   You could try and locate those lists and ask for removal.. but again, I think that would somehow affect your traffic. It’s your call…
6. Blog Flipping 5.26.08 / 12am

   I think it’s good for traffic. Comment spam sucks, but if you can get a few of these spammers to stick around, then you are doing your job, right?

   Plus, with a heavily popular comment field.. your blog always looks more popular than it really is.

   Another tip I found useful… if a blog sits idle for too long, spammers go to town knowing that you probably won’t delete their comments. Keep short updates coming, and keep deleting spam comments and you could reverse the trend. Good luck!
7. Laminate Table 5.26.08 / 4am

   Hi!! Firstly congrats for having a good blog.Now, it was your nice decision to remove those comments which were looking like spam. okay but it will effect the flow of traffic. But it’s your blog and you do whatever suits you. Best of luck for your future..

   Thanks

   Laminate Table
8. Briks 5.27.08 / 8am

   Before comenting I tried to think what I would do if I have 183 spam comments just from one post…would I delete them. Then I remember a comment made in one of my blogs which said just “good post” with a link. I did get peeved and deleted it. But deleting 183 comments…
9. Pet Dog Blog 5.27.08 / 12pm

   Wow 183 comments. I usually check my blogs every few days so it never gets too many comments. I try to be pretty liberal with the comments because it makes a blog look busier than it really is.
10. Monavie 5.27.08 / 3pm

    Wow that is a ton of comments! But I understand how you feel. It’s a fence post argument - to just let people post anything and save yourself time, or to take the time to moderate it and approve comments. Good luck with your blog.
11. Michael 5.27.08 / 3pm

    hehe, had to do the same over at my blogg, the dofollow candy makes everyone crazy!
12. Bill G 5.27.08 / 6pm

    Love your site. Man 186 that must have taken quite the long time! Keep up the good work
13. Steve Jackson 5.27.08 / 7pm

    183 comments? that is a ton. My blog gets a lot of spam too, and I have to go through and delete them all by hand. Good luck keeping the spam away.
14. Marc Klein 5.28.08 / 1am

    Wow 183 comments, thats a lot many.I think you get these many spam comments because there are lists of dofollow blogs on the net, and jadehat.com is among them.
15. Chicago Mortgage 5.28.08 / 11am

    That is a lot of comments. I hope this means you are back and going to provide us with more comments. Lets get some more good content.
16. Public Shells 5.28.08 / 5pm

    Yes, dofollow blog list… Otherwise at least a way to find blogs like this and to read… But 186 comments are still a lot.
17. Patrick 5.29.08 / 9pm

    Moderating the comments should really be done, that way you can filter out the really unnecessary junk comments from the relevant ones. But I’m not surprised you had to delete that much since 7 months separated your most recent post from the last one. Spammers basically just went to town while you were gone. Save yourself the trouble of doing all that again in the future by moderating your blog.
18. find tradesmen 5.31.08 / 7am

    186! wow that is a lot to moderate. Delete it might be a good way then again maybe some comments are useful to your blogs.
19. How to earn online 5.31.08 / 10am

    How do you decide if a comment is spam or not? Moderation should be done on a constant basis so the integrity of your blog does not become compromised.
20. Myfinancebutler 5.31.08 / 10am

    That is a lot of comments to delete, In my personal blog, I’ve never had to delete that much. I believe it is still worth it to take part of the dofollow movement though, it helps a lot of people and it also brings a lot of traffic to a blog.
21. Discount bodybuilding equipment 5.31.08 / 1pm

    Do you plan on posting in the future or do you just come by once in awhile and do spring cleaning on comments? LOL
22. Voucher Codes 5.31.08 / 6pm

    Yeah looks like you are getting a lot of comments which has got to be good my blog gets hardly any and it has over 2k hits a month!
23. allen 6.1.08 / 1pm

    So are comments important in a blog page? I also have a blog page, but havent made up my mind if its a good idea or not. It sounds like more work added to you instead of spending time writing articles.
24. PC Sport Live 6.1.08 / 3pm

    Whenever I post on a blog, I try to find an article which will allow me to post something relevant. I really am not surprised you’ve had to delete 183 comments in all honesty. Some of the posts I’ve seen on blogs contain great posts such as, ‘cool article’,'thanks for the info.’ It really does get rather bland.
25. Ernesto 6.3.08 / 11am

    Well in my case, I have one wordpress blog which I have somehow neglected for quite sometime and surprisingly it got 500plus comments waiting to be read and moderated. I jus don’t know how to deal with it.
26. Cellulite Lady 6.4.08 / 1pm

    Comment moderation sucks…it’s so time consuming. I have several blogs, one of which is a wordpress blog that always has the auto insurance guy and the discount mortgage guy showing up in the comments. I guess it comes with the territory, but it can definitely be overwhelming.
27. Ecommerce website 6.5.08 / 12am

    maybe you have to check it first before delete them because i believe that some of that can be use and supportive….just check it out
28. College Graduation Gifts 6.5.08 / 9am

    As a newbie, my earlier notion of a nofollow tag is that it is hammered in place in order to prevent comment spamming. But I have recently observed that it hasn’t stopped comment spamming at all. Instead, it discouraged legit blog readers from leaving valuable comments which could have been good for the blog itself as well as its other readers.

    Comment spamming is highly unethical and irritating. However though, it can be easy to spot a comment spam by the looks of its contents alone. There must be some other way to really nuke the root cause of comment spamming.

    Just my two cents.
29. Invoice Factoring Services 6.7.08 / 7am

    Yeah i guess too much spam means that your site is just being visited just for the sake of the dofollow. comment moderation is something that really consumes time. if you blog has high traffic , you would have obvioulsy a lot of moderation work to do.
30. Argentina Soccer 6.9.08 / 3pm

    Too true, a very annoying thing! Good article and cool site
31. Cheap Mortgages 6.10.08 / 6am

    When you work 100 hour a weeks, its really hard to keep up with spam. Most comment can be good for SEO, just have to filter out the spam.
32. TV Brackets 6.13.08 / 4am

    Thats very true but this is what you have to do sometimes to promote your websites. Well nice work overall and keep it up. Hope to hear from you soon.
33. Dental Websites 6.13.08 / 10am

    Comment moderation sucks…it’s so time consuming.I really am not surprised you’ve had to delete 183 comments in all honesty.
34. Cosmetic Dentist London 6.13.08 / 1pm

    Whene your blog is dofollow and is listed in many forums and blogs as dofollow blogs i guess you have a heard time doing comment moderation. but somehow its good to get all thses traffic to your site.
35. Truck Wraps 6.15.08 / 4am

    I think the comment can be a good thing, as long as you filter out the BAD spam, and we all know what that is.
36. hair loss 6.16.08 / 12am

    Comments are great when it help out in our blogs. Spams comments are intolerable. I do have same problems and its a pain to check them all out and filter the one that good.
37. tv bracket 6.17.08 / 9am

    Are you not using Askimet? It does a really good job on my site of getting rid of the bulk of the junk. That only leaves the ones who left one line responses that were not even thought about at all to delete.
38. Prescription Drug Addictions 6.18.08 / 12am

    It is good that you are so open about this, and you will definitely a good return on your link love generosity. Thank you very much.
39. design nottingham 6.19.08 / 7am

    I was quite please when we received our first spam comments, our blog might not have attracted many comments so far but it’s at least worthy of SPAM 183 comments though.. would drive me mad
40. Amazing Blogger 6.19.08 / 8am

    I think it’s a good think that you deleted comments. If someone has nothing to say and writes only a couple words you should definitely delete that comment. Anyways there are tools that filter out spam: somebody already mentioned askimet - it’s a really great plugin. So in the end you’re left with human comments and I think it’s really easy to spot shitty ones.
41. Spotsylvania County Virginia Real Estate 6.23.08 / 9am

    Congratulations for having a new blog now. I think you made the right decision to delete those comments.
42. מיתוג אישי 6.23.08 / 5pm

    Spammers don’t think, examination comments is very time consuming job, I hope it won’t be so hard to you.
43. custom on hold messages 6.24.08 / 2pm

    haha they are like cockroaches! they just keep coming back u just needa install the keyword luv plugin and that should make things a little bit easier o_O
    -Jake
44. Rugsdoneright 6.24.08 / 3pm

    I’m sure you’ll get plenty more comments. Thanks for being so transparent.
45. datemonthyear 6.27.08 / 3am

    what exactly is dofollow?
46. Keyd 6.28.08 / 1am

    > 2datemonthyear
    DoFollow is a movement.
    The main idea is to show your commenters that you appreciate them by turning off NotFollow option in your blog. In that case, search engines can index links to commenter’s blog or site.
47. Big Bear Cabins 6.29.08 / 2pm

    You did the right decision.
48. Utah SEO Company 7.1.08 / 4pm

    We do the same thing at my company all the time. Ioventuresinc.com
49. Quit Smoking Laser 7.2.08 / 10pm

    There’s always 2 sides to these things. If you get comments from someone looking for a link you still get fresh content on your site, and that’s good for you too. The time to delete is when you don’t get any useful fresh content in exchange for the link. It needs to be a useful comment
50. used callaway golf clubs 7.3.08 / 5am

    In before the next delete!
51. Cheap Scuba Gear 7.4.08 / 1am

    Well, thanks, here is my post! Cheers
52. Kathryn 7.5.08 / 5pm

    Comment moderation before granting a dofollow is the way to go. Also, I wonder if those in the movement had a clear, posted, comment policy if some of the spam would go elsewhere. One can hope.
53. Promotional Products 7.8.08 / 1pm

    Nice comment Kathryn! I agree with you.
54. herbal pain relief 7.10.08 / 12am

    I agree with some of the comments above that you should leave some useful unique content because it’ll help your site out in the SERPs. In return for the unique content, you’re giving back a dofollow link.

    Cheers!
55. Life Coach 7.11.08 / 8pm

    I think that the dofollow movement is a great thing — people who market in the internet do compete with each other, and it wouldn’t hurt if they helped each other sometimes.
56. vivian 7.16.08 / 1pm

    you’re right!!
57. JB 7.17.08 / 1pm

    wow — that’s a lot of comments!
58. promotional products 7.23.08 / 3am

    Wow!! 183 Comments! Do you install askimet
59. Josh 7.24.08 / 3pm

    The funny thing is, a lot of these blog spammers aren’t even the least bit dissuaded by the title of this post. I just skimmed through all of the comments above me, and I would swear to you that I’ve seen some of the exact same sentences copied and pasted over again, or worse, re-written in broken english.

    I’ll admit that I found this site through a list of page-ranked blogs, but I like visiting the sites because the authors generally wrire well-constructed and thought-provoking posts (yourself included). I hope that when I do comment, it is insightful and adds something to the conversation.

    A lot of the comment abuse here is just sad, though. Is there a way to filter out comments that are less than X words? That might filter out some of the spammers, or at the very least, it would give them a harder time.
60. Daniel Mendieta 7.26.08 / 2am

    So, I’m dead tired of SEO. Pay-per-click haven’t lost its appeal for now, but I’m looking more and more about creating a startup of my own.Not Web 2.0 startup, that’s for sure. Something actually useful, something I would be able to support and something that will yield me nice bucks.
61. Denise 8.4.08 / 11am

    Good decision! 183 comments is really a lot.
62. Yamaha Majesty 8.5.08 / 5am

    How long did it take you to delete 183?
63. Miranda 8.8.08 / 10am

    Yeah that is my question too because 183 comments is obviously a lot!
64. Love Sac 8.27.08 / 2pm

    Do you have a hard time doing that?
65. Cash Gifting 8.29.08 / 11am

    Right decision
66. Commercial Photography Harrogate 9.3.08 / 3pm

    The funny thing is, a lot of these blog spammers aren’t even the least bit dissuaded by the title of this post. I just skimmed through all of the comments above me, and I would swear to you that I’ve seen some of the exact same sentences copied and pasted over again, or worse, re-written in broked english.

    I’ll admit that I found this site through a list of page-ranked blogs, but I like visiting the sites because the authors generally wrire well-constructed and thought-provoking posts (yourself included). I hope that when I do comment, it is insightful and adds something to the conversation.

    A lot of the comment abuse here is just sad, though. Is there a way to filter out comments that are less than X words? That might filter out some of the spammers, or at the very least, it would give them a harder time.
67. Landscaping Wilmington 9.20.08 / 2am

    right decision show no mercy!
68. La Jolla California 9.29.08 / 3pm

    You did a good decision! hope it isn’t hard to delete that all.
69. irish lottery 10.11.08 / 8am

    that the right decision

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