I moderate comments on this blog for a couple of reasons, but one of the most important is so that I can weed out spam comments. I understand SEO enough to know that a link from my site is a pretty good deal and could do something to boost ranking on another site. To leave a comment you have to leave your name and email with the option of a website address. If you want to put your link to your blog, business site, etc. in that space, that is fine–just leave a legitimate comment and use your name for crying out loud. If your name is listed as “Travel Getaways” and your website is some travel site and your comment is something like: “food storage is great, but you could really use a travel getaway” and your comment links back to your travel site as well, I’m sorry, but I can’t post that. Even if it is a food storage site you are linking to. Like “I really love the freeze dried food at XYZ retailer” and your website is XYZ retailer–can’t post it. I have advertisers who pay to have their links and ads up on this site and it isn’t fair to them for me to post similar links in comments for free. I’m pretty careful here as some linking to food storage sites in comments is acceptable, so if you think your comment has been unduly unpublished, let me know.
If you have a survival/preparedness/self sufficiency type blog that gets updated regularly, drop me a note and I’ll be glad to put a link to your site on my blogroll. Also if you leave a comment that relates to my post topic linking to a post of your own that would help my readers, fine. I can post that.
If you want to write a guest post and link back to your site in a bio section or even within the post, great. That’s fair as long as the post is useful to my readers and not just written trying to get your keywords into it. I have the final say on which guest posts I publish–I respect my readers and the time they spend on this blog and am not going to post things that are out of the realm of self reliance or preparedness. Yes, I have turned down guest posts and even product reviews usually because they don’t fit the scope of this site.
If you’re a business and want to sponsor a product review or giveaway that is related to self reliance/food storage/survival/preparedness/etc., I’ll link to your site in the review/giveaway post. Otherwise, I have very reasonable advertising rates, just email me and we can work something out for your business.
Everyone cool with that? Sorry for the “business” post–I just needed to lay out the ground rules for linking and commenting. Maybe it will curb some of the spammers, maybe not, but at least they’ll know why their comment never shows up on the site.
Keep preparing! Angela
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Thank you :)
I could not have said it better. Thank you.
Gaye
I understand what you are saying. My other domain blog gets a lot of spam comments even with a captha form. While I have not had but even one comment on my todaysurvivalist blog and it has been in service for a few months.
I would not mind doing a link exchange with you and I already put your link up on my site in my blog roll.
So take a look if you like and reciprocate. If not that is fine too. Wish you all the best.
Terry
Thank you! I hate spammers as well but get them daily… I need to find something to stop them from doing it.
I understand. We are not a “survival” site in the true sense of the word, but we think that our information on vitamins does help us survive in a better condition than people who do not have a good diet or supplement regime.
I hope we fit your definition, but if not, we understand.
Thank you for saying that! I’ve had to turn on comment moderation as well as put in a verification code due to spammers.