As your business blog grows, you’ll start to receive more comments on your blog posts. That’s a huge milestone that you should celebrate because it means your content is interesting enough that readers want to actively engage with you. However, not all comments are good comments, and I’m not talking about comments that offer differing opinions and often in unpleasant ways (and you’ll get a lot of those). I’m talking about the dreaded comment spam!
Comment spam is bad. It’s that simple. Not only does it detract from the conversation happening on your blog, but it also makes it seem like you don’t really care about your business blog, audience or conversations because you can’t even take the time to identify and delete those spam comments. People who spend a lot of time on blogs can identify spam comments faster than blogging novices, so it’s important that you educate yourself to identify, flag and delete spam comments.
If you use a spam filter or tool like Akismet on your business blog (and you should) then you need to understand that taking the time to flag comments as spam is important because doing so “teaches” the spam filter how to identify future spam. Simply deleting a spam comment works, but you’ll help yourself in the long run if you flag spam comments that your spam filter or tool doesn’t catch. [Read more…] about 5 Types of Blog Comment Spam You Need to Delete
No one wants to read a business blog that is outdated. The key to your business blog’s success is keeping it fresh with interesting, useful and meaningful content. That means not only do your business blog posts have to add value to the user experience, but they also need to be published frequently.
If you’re new to business blogging, then you might like to have a book by your side to use as a resource. My new book,