Is this Comment Adding to the Conversation??

I seriously don’t get it – why the hell do people put pure marketing pitches in the comments on blogs? Check this comment that I just got on my “How Can Social Networks become Truly Useful” post I wrote back in August:

A good social networking site for a niche market such as golf would be: iGolf.to – Social networking

Brings golfers together for a round, promotes tee times as well as the industry as a whole. A great use of social netwkring if I have ever seen it.

The comment adds ABSOLUTELY zero value to the post. Of course, there was a link to IGolf in the comment, but I took it out of this post because Brendan doesn’t deserve a link from me for SPAMMING my blog.

Seriously, marketers who still think it’s 1980 and that “cram your message down the consumers throat” crap works — get a freakin clue. The comment is a great example of how NOT to market a company in the blogosphere.

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  • http://3oceansrealestate.com Kevin Boer

    The sweet revenge is that your blog, with its good page rank, will soon outrank the spam commenter’s site for searches related to what the spam commenter was advertising!