Comments on: Paying Money For Blog Comments

By: Shantanu

Shantanu — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:30:30 +0000

My intial reaction was I don’t like it, but I think I understand the counter-point as I think some more. It’s interesting to see where this will lead to.

By: Ann L.

Ann L. — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:01:31 +0000

If a real live human is doing this and the comments are on topic, I’m not going to spend a lot of energy worrying about it. If the comment is trash, I just delete it anyways and the link never occurs.
Once I receive 500 comments per day, I’ll worry about the moderation portion (LOL).

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:12:34 +0000

I can only imagine how much it would hurt a site’s traffic if word got out that you paid for comments.

By: Scot

Scot — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:21:04 +0000

Glenn (or is it Gregg?),
I don’t think Jon will be using a script to perform the duty, it sounds like he’s enlisted someone on his payroll to make the comments personally. A captcha would make it a bit harder for his employees but it would also make it more difficult for legitimate comments to get through also.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:06:34 +0000

Hi, My name is chris. Please visit http://www.sitename.com

that is all,
chris

_______

sounds like i really want to get to know him.

By: Business Twins

Business Twins — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:38:35 +0000

Oops forgot to add something.

The only real way to possibly stop this is to add captcha’s on your comments. So that robots or scripts will have to punch in randomly generated numbers/letters.

By: Business Twins

Business Twins — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:37:18 +0000

I think that all the controversy that Jon Waraas creates is just for attention and a pretty good marketing strategy. For everything there is always a niche. Even though I am against his newly launched ‘business’ there are always going to be bloggers out there who would pay for a service like this.

Just think of it, he’s earning 30 dollars every sale. What does he do? Nothing, a script does all the work for him. So the only thing he is gaining is..money.

John Chow and Problogger may be against it as well as many others, but when you think of it there is no way to stop this or even really distinguish the difference between a real and paid comment perhaps.

By: Scot

Scot — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:12:54 +0000

Erik,
That would be a good idea. If I wanted to blow $100 I would do just that. But, again; the real test is SERPS.

Bush,
I agree. Jon’s name will be linked with this service, which was a silly idea on his part.

Vlad,
He claims to give out a .txt file with all of the blogs he has commented on. But, you’re right… whose to say the links will remain or spidered?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:02:10 +0000

Another point I would like to make that Jon Warass, or his “employee” may have hard time fulfilling the “orders”- I am sure that many comments will get through even on my blog, but I bet many of them will get moderated. I just wonder how will he report to his “clients”. Will he offer a prof that comment was made? What if the comment is deleted two days later? I really think the his “business model” will not sustain itself.

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:18:37 +0000

Following what VLad said, services like this could push back or even reset the “Do Follow/You Comment – I Follow” movement. Personally, I think this is a bad thing and takes away from the spirit of blogging and commenting – The true exchange or original ideas. This is a very bad omen.

And like someone else said, (I think on ProBlogger), sure this guy is getting buzz about his new topic. But now his name will be ever linked with all these posts about how he’s possibly dismantling the blogosphere.