Comments on: When Does It Cease to Be Link Marketing And Become Link Spam?

By: Marios Alexandrou

Marios Alexandrou — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:57:00 +0000

I run in to the same thing and I struggle with whether I should consider the motives behind a comment rather than just the contents of the comment.

In the end I settled on a solution that keeps me a good neighbor while also “protecting” me. That solution involves using a WordPress plugin that will remove the nofollow only after multiple comments from the same person.

By: Ramon Eijkemans

Ramon Eijkemans — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:33:00 +0000

Link marketing becomes link spam when the intention is to spam, no matter whether it's automated or not. But spam is also a question of your personal viewpoint.

Like you said: 'After all, the link was purposely put in place to manipulate Page Rank.'

That is spam, but on the other hand: if the comment ADDS some value for your page also, you profit from it. That would probably be the perfect spam comment.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:34:00 +0000

Doh! It was working so well. Now I’ve to lay off 30 comment whores. Suckers, they were told not to bother with blogspot URLs due to the nofollow crap, shame on them.

Seriously, I’ve seen these comments for ages. It’s fun to change the URLs to my own stuff or clients. Most bloggers won’t get the intention though.

By: Wiep

Wiep — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:21:00 +0000

Great info, thanks for sharing. Very useful post.

No seriously, I guess link marketing turns into link spam when it's automized. If you are submitting your links to whatever page automatically, but you wouldn't do that if you had to do it by hand, than it's link spam.
If you submit your link manually to whatever page and the owner or the visitors don't think it's interesting or relevant, or even think it's annoying or irritating, than it's bad link marketing.