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Why Blog Comments Are About Branding

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Remember when blog comments were about building links and traffic? Then Google decided not to count blog comments for links. That pretty much shut down the blog-commenting-as-linkbuilding game. But blog comments still hold value. The value to be found in blog comments today is in branding. Others won’t.

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The Best Five Social Media Websites For Meaningful Comments

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When it comes to meaningful comments, and deep discussions, forget Facebook and Twitter. If anything, they can flood you with banal comments that take a lot of time yet deliver little in results. There are other sites where comments reach a more meaningful level, and often lead to much deeper conversations.

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Why You Shouldn’t Delete Negative Comments

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You let that comment fly and it’s too late. Whether on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or your local forum, don’t delete the negative comments. They see your profile and dig in a little deep only to find that you’ve deleted comments. So if you don’t delete the comments, what should you do?

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Would You Add Google+ To Your Blog Comments?

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How many different blog comment applications are out there? If you are a WordPress user, then you know you don’t need to add a plug-in or application to encourage comments on your blog. However, you can add comment management services like Disqus or CommentLuv. But what if Google+ had a blog comment system?

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Stop The Spam, Please!

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One particular type of spam that I find particularly egregious is blog comment spam because I see so much of it. Here are five specific ways I can tell a blog comment is spam and why I won’t approve it. Your comment is written by your company name or a keyword phrase. Your comment won’t be approved.

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3 Benefits To User-Generated Content

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It can be blog comments, forum posts, guest articles, author bios, or anything that is created by your website’s users and published on your website, blog, forum, or other Web property. Think about comments on your blog, for instance. SEO for Small Business blog comments forum posts SEO UGC user generated content'

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The Importance of Comments

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How many of the blogs that you read do you comment on? How different do you think the blogs you read would be if there were no comments? Or if people did comment? If you can have a business blog that people read and comment on, you have a real-time focus group. If you answer the comments quickly, a conversation happens.