I have to post this, I wasn’t planning on making a post but I’ve just received another couple of spammy comments and thought I’d share my thoughts.

First of all, blog commenting is great! I love it, and you should too. If done right you then it’s a win-win situation for both you and the bloggers who’s blogs you comment on.

But it’s not done right, not by a long shot. I had a blog comment today for “latin American commerce”, what does that have to do with my site?

The problem is the ease of access to automated software that lets you find blogs to comment on such as Comment Kahuna. Don’t get me wrong, I love that program, but I wish the retards would stop getting ahold of it.

The Wrong Way: What Will Happen?

This is what will happen if you do blog commenting like an idiot.

1. I’ll receive your blog comment and then click on the “spam” button.
2. Lots of other bloggers will also receive your comment and click the “spam” button.
3. You’ll now show up as a spammer and Aksimet will automatically delete your comments for me.
4. You will die, alone and afraid with no one to care for your sick dog.

How Do You Do Blog Commenting Then?

Like so…

1. Find blogs that are in your niche instead of spamming every blog you can think of.
2. Do not include a link to your site. If you want some link love then you’ll get it from the URL section of the comment box. Posting links (especially irrelevent links) will get you put in the spam queue faster than you can say, “spam and eggs for breakfast”.
3. Make sense. Don’t write some random, generic crap. Instead, look at the post and genuinely share your opinion. Disagree, agree, whatever. Just don’t put, “Nice article, check out my link.”

That’s it for now. Some more common sense goodness may follow at some indeterminate time.

Don’t get your hopes up.

I don’t post very often on this blog, and for a good reason: I just don’t have anything interesting to say.

Sometimes I can post every day for a few days because my mind is full of ideas, and other times it’s weeks and I don’t write. I don’t see the point in writing filler content just to make it look like I know what I’m talking about.

On the flip side, this isn’t how I run the rest of my blogs. This is an internet marketing blog, and there are many people out there who have a lot more juicy information to hand out than I do.

But on the blogs that I do outside of this niche, I try and follow the blogger rule of doing X amount of posts per week. I make sure that I have something interesting to say.

I guess when I think about it, the reason for this is that my other blogs are all about making money. If I stop posting then potentially my income goes down, whereas this blog doesn’t affect my income in the slightest.

That’s why all these make money online bloggers come out with so much crap on a regular basis, they just need to say something so that they can have an excuse to sell you yet another crappy ebook.

I don’t usually do posts like this where I link to another blog and go “oh isn’t that nice”.

But I’ll have to make an exception for this one: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-different-types-of-clients

This little gem popped up in my feed reader tonight. It won’t teach you much about internet marketing, but it might give you a bit of a chuckle. Take a look.

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Perhaps that title is a little bit of an overstatement, but at least in the make money online niche it’s true.

I received a direct message today asking me to joining some sort of stay-at-home-wealth-formula programme. I politely declined, and informed the user that it really isn’t the best use of his time to be spamming his link on Twitter.

Twitter doesn’t have that big a userbase, and the people that are in it are like me and you. They are internet marketers, SEOs, web designers and graphic designers. I would say that most Twitter users are web-savvy.

It seems a waste of time to be marketing online riches to these types of people, when there’s a whole load of people in other areas online that are ripe for the picking.

And speaking of Twitter, I’ve been struggling to get my head around it. I see all these high profile bloggers saying how amazing it is, and how they posted one message for help and got a gazillion replies. But I never get anything like that.

I really need to build up my followers, but that takes so much effort that could be put to better use elsewhere.

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I was talking to a contact I’d met online recently, which is something I’ve been doing a lot more recently. Chatting to people over instant messenger isn’t usually my style, but I’m finding there’s lots to be learnt from the small snippets of wisdom you pick up.

Not in this case, however. This time, I was talking to someone who didn’t think that there was any money in SEO. I say SEO, because this guy was an SEO.

He honestly didn’t believe that there was any point in SEO’ing his own sites.

He would quite happily do it for businesses and clients, but seemed to think that there was no point getting search engine traffic unless you had a “killer idea”. I find it hard to believe that someone who’s involved in the web development industry so much wouldn’t see the stupidity in that.

The thing is, I’m noticing this more and more. People don’t seem to recognise the potential in internet marketing. I’m an admin for a web design forum, and I often here people complaining about some web design problem they can’t solve and I just have to laugh.

We don’t have to deal with that sort of crap in internet marketing! Unless we want to of course.

Internet marketing isn’t about pretty pages, it’s about making money. And yet so many people miss out and try to start their own “web design” business or “graphics design” business. You’d think that these people would know better.

Ah well, we can’t complain. The less people in the game, the more money for us.

Both the WebWriMo and my Internet Marketing Blitz have officially finished. I’m sorry to say that I didn’t make the 50,000 words at all. I got stuck at around 30,000 near the end and I just couldn’t shift myself to do the rest.

As for my internet marketing blitz, I’d say that was most definitely a success. Figures wise, it wasn’t so good. This was due to me having a couple of weekends away towards the end.

But the main thing is that this blitz taught me something about my life. I am destined to be an internet marketer. This isn’t just some pipe dream, this is who I’m supposed to be.

I never want to work for another company again. I just want to work for me, and I feel that so strongly now.

The blitz also helped me to focus all my efforts on my business, so much so that about halfway through it stopped being a “30 day blitz” because I realised that this was a new way for me to live.

I now put the majority of my time into the business, never mind about blitz’s! I just want to put in the maximum effort all the time.

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