Comments on Associated Content Help with SEO

I run a blog named AmericanAngle it is hosted as a blogspot.com on Google's servers. Now, before you start thinking this is just a self-promoting piece of spam be advised that I don't make a dime from my blog. The blog is not an earner because in part it is not properly monetized, but mainly because I did not furnish my S.S. number and other personal information to the Google gods.

As a result of providing a user-friendly comment feature with no human detector (devices such as CAPTCHA to thwart robotic comments) spammers may leave their calling cards.

Occasionally I do a routine search of these spammers, don't ask why, investigating/research is in my blood. One such search directed me to an article on Associated Content, written by Aly Adair. This time spam actually helped with a page view.

The downside, however positive, is that habitual spammers are profiled by the Google gods and forwarding content with the attached spam can lead to a negative result with the search engines, so I advise deleting obvious spam.

I came to realize that comments on Associated Content help with search engine optimization (SEO) because the routine search of a chronic spammer directed me to Aly's article. Not because of her key word density, but due to the presence of the spammer's comment. Ironically, that comment on Aly's page was right above my own comment.

I started this writing thing not with the intent of making any dough, not that I would turn it down mama didn't raise a fool, but to spread the word. Those of you familiar with my work, all two of you, know my topics usually consist of political commentary and bloviators need to be heard.

Therefore, if SEO and proper key word density gets me an expanded audience outside of my Associated Content (AC) clique, cave men like me and Snidely Whiplash can grasp the basics of this stuff. No, I'm not going to launch into a tutorial, but I will share what this old salty dog picked up along the way.

I favor the wink emoticon ;-) and have dropped plenty in comment sections, but always connected to a pithy comment of course ;-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the ever-popular Donald Pennigton covered this in one of his many AC publications.

Emoticons serve the purpose of letting the AC writer know you were there. Of course, whether you leave a comment or not your visit registers as a page view. There is some debate however, about the time one must spend on the actual page in order for it to count as a measurable page view.

I honestly appreciate all visits and smiley faces, frowns, and winks and will hit ya back, after all that's what pals are for ;-) Those emoticons alone, however, do nothing for the SEO aspect, my answer to that is so what. If you are relying on comments to help with SEO then you are already behind the 8-ball.

Comments are designed to enhance and to contribute to the discussion. It is the writer's job to worry about the math; SEO and the percentage of key words to content length, my head is already spinning, but you get the point.

The sissies on Associated Content and elsewhere that can't handle a dissenting point of view and delete comments that aren't in tune with their choir may be hurting themselves.

The best comments, if there is such thing, are those that include a phrase or two from the article. Utilizing a form of the title for instance in your Comments on Associated Content may even Help With search engine optimization (SEO) ;-)