Well, I have this morning been trying to follow my thirty day challenge training and use Market Samurai to generate some interest about my websites and maybe even get a few backlinks one day, by making some appropriate comments on other people’s articles and blogs. How frustrating this backlink building is.
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Basically, I have just spent five minutes skimming a blog post, and typing in a considered comment – a quality comment. I followed the rules as stated, and pressed submit. What happened? Well, back came a web page with a totally blank screen except for one big, bold, black word at the top – DISCARDED. Well, thanks for that, Mr Webmaster. Thanks for a user-friendly experience at your web site. Thanks for the consideration. Thanks for the badly-executed automated judgement that my comment was a worthless addition to your site, which actually it was not.
You know, this is one of the things that is wrong, very wrong with Internet Marketing. If you are on someone else’s territory, whether it is a personal blog or a big blog site like hubpages, you are treated summarily by whatever rules they decide to enforce. If they enfoce a new set of rules to the ones on site, well, that’s up to them, it’s their site. If they send you a curt rejection message with no thought about the image it gives of their brand – who cares? There is often a lot of unfairness, a lot of bad practice and a lot of sheer incompetence in how these sites interact with visitors who want to make a contribution of what is actually “content” for their site if only they could see clearly instead of going over the top with their trigger-happy condemnation.
It seems to me, to paraphrase that old song, that too many webmasters are “seeing the world through spam-tinted glasses – and EVERYTHING looks spammy now!!”
I am not yet used to this Internet Marketing world. Every summary rejection of my comments on other people’s sites feels like the equivalent of someone punching me in the chest. Not exactly painful, but not something you want to have done to you all morning. I think I need to change my attitude a little. I am taking it too personally.
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