Negative and Offensive Comments
Dec 2, 2008 affiliate marketing, blogging, ethics, wordpress
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Hi! Long time no write. Sorry to all my millions of readers for the lack of posts. But as I have said before on here somewhere, i aint no writer. 
Just something that has popped up again lately after i started to promote a new product. This product is in the gaming niche and if you are a bit of a nerd then you can find all that it tells you for $0 on the net (like pretty much all ebook packages but anyway). Being in the gaming niche there is a good chance that some hardcore gamers might find your review or whatever and proceed to try to tell you how much of an arsehole (I’m an aussie that’s how it’s spelt) you are for selling something that is freely available with about 10 seconds of pretty elementary Google…ing. (Googling?).
This happened again (has happened on many a youtube video) yesterday and continues today, when my review site was posted on a pretty high traffic gaming forum. When i checked this morning i had 7 comments waiting to be moderated and each and every one of them had some very colourfull language and a thoughtful link to a website where you can download everything for free.
I was kind of expecting this so in my review of the product i actually stated that you can indeed find all this info for nothing if you are prepared to look. This package actually is quite a nifty little bundle which offers quite a bit more which hardly anyone noticed it seems, but i think this is what saved me from more defamatory comments.
So i guess the point of this post is to remember, if you are promoting questionable products, don’t just copy the copy that the publisher offers you in their affiliate tools section, paste into an email or blog post and hope for the best. Have a think about what kind of people are likely to read it and how they might react. Not everyone is a stupid internet newbie and when they find you they will let you know which in turn can harm your sales if every one reads those comments.
Keep comments on but keep them moderated. Comments are an important part of blogs as they can offer testimonials on the products that you promote. I do sometimes let a few negative ones through but i like to respond to those and reassure anyone else that its not all a load of bullshit.
Tags: angry people, angry users, comments, soap box
Using CommentLuv to Encourage Comments
Oct 11, 2008 blogging, plugins, wordpress
You might have noticed that I installed the CommentLuv plugin a little while back. This plugin extracts the latest blog post of the commenter and links it in with their comment. This is a good way to let your commenters get some extra traffic from people who are reading your blog comments. What most blogs dont do which I will do for you, is install the dofollow plugin. This disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments which means the commentluv links not only get you some extra traffic but also another backlink to your site!
So comment away! gain some extra linkage and lets all help each other! *group hug* *spew*
Tags: commentluv, comments, dofollow
