Identifying Blog Spam
By Carole Hayward You've got your blog up and running, and based on your social media consultant's advice, you are posting regularly. You get a notification from your blog host that you have a comment on your latest post. Exciting, right? This is what you've been hoping for, a chance to engage with your readers, and get a little dialogue going. But when you read the comment, you just aren't quite sure whether this is a legitimate comment or blog spam (Wikipedia says that the term for this is blam. I haven't heard it called that myself, but there's my new word for the day). Tips to Determine Blog Spam I've been in the position myself, and I know that it's sometimes difficult to assess whether a comment is for…
