In the recent past, Buying blog posts became an active trend. A number of services like ReviewMe and PayPerPost and a few others were started to automate this. Even, a wordpress plugin was released to do this. Now that, this arena is full, Buy Blog Comments has taken this to the comments level. Of course, Buy Blog Comments is the first of its kind, and hopefully be the last of its kind.
Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it wont get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines.
Everyone sees it as a really bad idea and this would lead to more Spam. Blogger’s reaction (here, here, here & here) are extremely negative. But John Chow is always different and he sees this from positive angle.
Let’s face it, all blogs want more comments because it makes the blog look active. And if the comments are related to the post topic, do you really care if it’s being done by a hired gun instead of the true commentator?
I tend to agree with this highly. When i get some nice comments related to my posts, i don’t mind if they are being paid for. But as John points out, the price is not high. $20 for 100 comments is a good price in my opinion.
As a whole, Buy Blog Comments is service that would destroy the system of blogging, thought it wouldn’t encourage Spam. This might be successful or even not, but i expect to see a lot of similar services in the near future.
I’ve never understood the point of comment spam, at least as far as SEO goes. Google basically ignores links on pages that are below about PR4, so a comment on a typical blog post is worthless in terms of draining PR juice from a site.
In contrast, multiple comments on a site like Sciencebase.com that runs the Top Commentators Plugin will allow a dedicated commenter to get their link right on to the blog homepage (which is a PR7). Now, if you were unethical that plugin would be the way to go to game sites like that.
Of course, Akismet and a wary and sharp-eyed moderator will see right through the cr*p-flood, anyway.
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I agree that to new bloggers they will want and will not mind the comments as long as it looks legit, but the author behind it will be losing their brand
the comment that the “so called author” of the blog is leaving a comment will contradict their blog
for example: if the comment comes off sarcastic yet the authors blog is laid back – I think a reader would definitely see the difference
I agree that to new bloggers they will want and will not mind the comments as long as it looks legit, but the author behind it will be losing their brand
the comment that the “so called author†of the blog is leaving a comment will contradict their blog
I was going to buy some comment’s, however after reading this blog I decided not to do that. It is better to build your business on a solid base instead of a lot of hot air!
Sometimes I see people on various forums providing commenting services, but the fact remains: loyal readers rock!
Although it would be nice to have 100s of ‘real’, 100 comments for $20 sounds pretty good to me!