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The Fan Club Boys of the Blogging Superstars

Written by Neil Galloway

I don't want to be too negative and I have tried to avoid negativity in general on this blog. However, in this article I'm going to vent a little bit.

I have been trying to get more involved in the blogging community since I started Thoughts From My Life. So I started to add more blogs to my RSS reader and read an increasing amount of articles.

In particular I have been reading the comments and looking to provide some feedback myself via the comments for a blog post. However, on the larger blogs, I have found that there are these "fan club boys" that consistently post useless comments on every posting.

Why?

Why? I don't really know. Perhaps they are trying to get a "top commenter" ranking or get people to click back to their site via the backlink on their name. Maybe they feel somewhat connected to the blogger if they praise him even though they do not have anything constructive to say.

Chow's Site is a Prime Example

John Chow's site is one of the worst for this. "Way to go John!". "You did it again". "Hope I can be like you someday". "You're incredibly evil John." (from his recent root of all evil campaign)

The list goes on and on and I have seen it a fair bit on ProBlogger as well. I do not blame the blog owners. They have done such a good job that they have attracted the hordes of followers and these types of comments are bound to follow. You think people could at least add a comment that would further add value to the posting. John's articles are excellent and should generate a lot more question and answer comments.

Conclusion

I was recently at Kumiko's Cash Quest and she wrote a pretty good article titled "Where Did All The Bloogers Go". Basically, it outlines how constructive some of these blogs are (or non-constructive). It furthers along this line of poor content in the comments section.

If these commenters are looking for some traffic through the backlink on their name, they can forget it. If it doesn't interest me, I don't click. What's the point.

On a lighter note, a blog isn't necessarily a forum, which implies a good back-and-forth conversation. So maybe I am being to harsh. I only wish I could have the 100 plus comments the John gets on his more popular articles anyways.

Then again, perhaps I am a big, fat hypocrite for avoiding negativity on my own blog.

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Category: Blogging

3 Comments

Bob Says:
2007-03-27 08:54:33
Very true, top commenters do get more traffic. And thats what most of us do it for I guess

Wes Says:
2007-03-27 14:05:26
A trick/loophole I have seen utilized is that some people provide a RSS feed for comments available from the main page. Google will pick up and index these RSS feeds (as they are listed on the main page), and as such, if you comment on that site, you i

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