Comments Policy

Comments are what make a blog interesting! I would LOVE to see your comments posted on my blog, and to encourage you to do so, I’ve enabled the Link Love plugin for Wordpress.

What that means is if you leave 10 comments and include a link to your site, the no follow attribute will be removed and those links will “count” when it comes to the search engines.

I chose Link Love because of Andy Beard’s recommendation on Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins - Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks

I installed this plug in because if you’re kind enough to leave 10 awesome comments that add value to the discussion, you should be rewarded with a link back to your site.

I like this plug in because if you’re a regular here, you should get preferential treatment over someone who stops by and leaves a comment just to get link juice.

Since Wordpress blogs ROCK when it comes to getting found on the web, there are a lot of people who are try to “game” the system. Their comments can only be defined as “spam”… and those comments will not be approved. Remember, the name of the game is to add VALUE to the discussion at hand!

If you haven’t read the post, don’t try to comment. With that in mind, the following comments won’t be approved as a general rule:

  • Comments that do not include a valid email address
  • Comments that add little value to the conversation
  • Comments which contain irrelevant links (only submitted to get link juice), like

“Great Post!
I will use it for my web at: (URL).”

  • ANY comment which contains more than one link.
  • obvious affiliate links
  • links to sites that are either currently classified as “bad neighborhood” or soon will be.
  • links to offensive sites (porn, hate, violence, gambling)

By the way, I’m a sucker for humor. If you make an “onion” style comment and I may forget all the rules above and approve it anyway.

As a rule, I will approve comments which take issue with what I’ve said as long as they contain a real email address. Don’t flame me and then give “bite-me @ yousuck . com” as your email address. It doesn’t matter HOW pithy or humorous your comment is, if you don’t have the stones to provide a real email address with your flame, the comment won’t be approved.

Also, I won’t approve troll style comments. If your sole purpose is to upset others, you’ll have to find another venue to get your kicks.

Feel free to disagree… just do it in a nice polite manner. Just because you can’t see my face or the faces of the other readers of this blog doesn’t mean we don’t have feelings too. Observe the Golden Rule: Leave comments here that you’d like to see appear on YOUR blog as well!