So, on one of my blogs that I have not touched in over two years (it will be three years this August), I received two “comments” today.

The first was on an introductory post–a post that just invites people to stick around the site. On that post, I got a comment that the commenter was interested in hearing more about that topic.

Well, if you want to know more, read the subsequent posts, which cover it.

The next comment was on another page, where I went into detail on a topic. On that, the same poster said that it was “a good article.”

And that’s it.

Both are very generic responses. And they look like spam comments, especially with regard to the comment on the introductory post.

But, you know what? The site listed looks like a real site, a real blog, and it appears as though a real person may have actually written them.

If that’s the case, that’s pretty sad. You don’t want to go around leaving comments that look and sound like spam comments because, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, bloggers are going to assume that it is a duck. And, so, your comment will be deleted and possibly reported as spam if they use something like Akismet, and that will make it harder for you to get blog traffic by commenting on other blogs.

You’ll just be shooting yourself in the foot.

So, don’t do that. If you are going to comment on a blog, leave a comment that is related to the blog posted you are commenting on and make it substantive enough that it is not indistinguishable from a spam comment.

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