St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

Since changing to a dofollow blog, we’ve had a large increase in the number of comments we’ve received. Most of them were well thought out comments from real people that took the time to read the article and then comment about it. This is exactly the type of comment we’re looking for.

However, a lot of the comments, weren’t published (they all sit in a que and await approval before being published). So far no one has complained. But we try to be considerate of others feelings and efforts here. Some of these comments that didn’t get approved we’re from real humans that did read the article but the comment was still in appropriate for our blog. We’ll list some informal guidelines about what type of comments we’ll publish and what we won’t to clear up any misunderstandings, and stop people from wasting the time they spend writing comments that’ll never get published.

These guidelines will probably evolve as time goes by and in no means are any type of contract that promised that you’re comment will be published. Cool? If you have questions or comments, please feel free to post them on this page as a comment below.

• No Adult content whatsoever.  This includes in your link.
• No links to direct competitors in the name link. I know the content draws people in the industry, it’s okay if you leave a comment. It’s okay if you add a url in the url field. It’s okay to use CommentLuv to post a link to your latest blog post (usually). Just don’t use your “name link” to point to your main site please. Do your clients a favor and post a link to their web site. Perhaps point it to an informative post on your blog? If you are interested in some kind of link swapping or whatever, please just contact us.
• The commented should be related to the content of the post. It especially shouldn’t be about the content on your site, unless it’s closely related to the content in the post you are commenting on. Link swap requests, for instance, don’t belong in a comment. We appreciate them and sometimes participate, but please just use our contact form.
• Use a name in the name field, not a keyphrase please.
• If the url you enter leads to a spammy super long “sales-letter” type web site, it almost certain to be rejected. We are going to help you junk up the internet, even if your product or service is the bomb. (what are you thinking BTW? Study after study has shown these web sites don’t work anywhere near as well as a regular web site and actually damage your reputation greatly.
• If the url points to a non existent site your comment might not be published. If you typed it wrong relax, it may still be published just without the link or the link may be corrected by staff. For instance if you forgot the “m” in “.com” we’ll just add it for you.
• If the site the link in the url filed points to displays an error page or is grossly “broken”, your comment may not be published, or it may be published with the link removed.
• If the product or service you link to with your name link OR your CommentLuv link is harmful to society your comment will not be published or the link may be stripped and the comment published anyway.
• If we google your comment and see other instances of the same comment elsewhere, your comment will not be published. that would get us in trouble with Google.
• If your link is in the askimet spam database, your comment probably won’t get published.

That seems like a lot of rules, but they all boil down to four simple rules: no adult content, no direct competitors, no rip offs and just add a thoughtful comment on the content of that post. Easy whuh?

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