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 Send to email | When Self Promotion Tips into Spam in Miscellaneous Blog Tips |  By Darren Rowse
el 25-Apr-2008 |
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 @jimgoldstein asks: “one things I see bloggers struggle with is blog spam. When self promotion goes to far. “
I agree Jim. There are different kinds of spam - the main stuff we see is the auto-generated stuff that fills our inboxes and hits our comment filters but then there is a more subtle kind of spam - where bloggers overstep the mark on other people’s blogs by promoting themselves to a point where they put others off. I see this every day in the comments on my blogs where the comments left are five words long and only slightly on topic and then there’s a list of 2-3 links as a signature. The comments left are obviously a thinly veiled attempt at self promotion.
The problem with this approach of self promotion is that you can do more harm for yourself than good. If you comments are allowed on your blog the reaction from others who see it can actually hurt your brand. I write about this in 10 Way s to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs.
The key to growing your blog is to create value. Create useful and unique content on your own blog (don’t get caught up in the self promotion game in every 2nd post) and to do the same thing on other people’s blogs. The people’s blogs that I visit from comments on my blog (and others) are those who have something interesting and useful to say - not those who leave links on dull and spammy comments).
OK - it’s over to you - what do you think?
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| When Self Promotion Tips into Spam | | @jimgoldstein asks: “one things I see bloggers struggle with is blog spam. When self promotion goes to far. “
I agree Jim. There are different kinds of spam - the main stuff we see is the auto-generated stuff that fills our inboxes and hits our comment filters but then there is a more subtle kind of [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips
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| More Offline Blog Promotion Tips | | This week my post at Scribefire continues my examination of offline blog promotion techniques with another 5 tips on the topic (part 1 was here). Looking forward to hearing your tips on how you promote your blog offline.
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| Blog Promotion - Reader Submitted Tips | | Last week I ran a series with five tactics for promoting a blog that I’d use if I were starting out again in blogging. To finish it off I asked readers to submit their own blog promotion tips of things that I didn’t include. The comments left were great and I wanted to highlight a [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Mar-2008 by Darren Rowse in Blog Promotion
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| Letting Comment Spam Take Over Your Blog - How to Let Your Blog Go #5 | | One of the saddest things that I see on blogs is where a blogger completely gives up on staying on top of comment spam.
You dig into their archives searching for information and expertise on their topic only to find their comments section completely riddled with comments that range from annoying self promotion, to links to [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips
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| Offline Blog Promotion Tips - Part 3 | | Over at ScribeFire they’ve just published the 3rd part of my offline blog tips series (read part 1 and part 2). This one includes 7 tips from some of my Twitter buddies as well as four more of my own.
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| Offline Blog Promotion Techniques | | In my weekly column over at ScribeFire this week I started a series on Offline Blog Promotion (ie promoting your blog through means that have nothing to do with the internet).
You can read part 1 (it’s a 3 part series) here. In this post I introduce why offline blog promotion is worth considering and 4 [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Blog Promotion
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