My Single Mom Life

We all hate spam right? We hate it in our email box, we hate it on our comments, why would any blogger think it's ok to spam their fellow bloggers?

Recently, this has happened to me about 7 times in the last week.
A couple of bloggers are trying to promote their blogs, or some part of their blogs they want out there.
I'm all for promoting yourself, I love a little promotion myself.
But do not, under any circumstance, do it in your fellow bloggers comments.
It's tacky.
One instance was someone promoting a feature of their blog, it was either a daily or weekly thing.
They hit every blog on their blogroll with exactly the same comment about their feature.
It was highly impersonal, had nothing at all to do with the post any of the bloggers had written. We were in essence, spammed.
The very first thing that popped in my head, was to delete their comment.
I did.
Then, I thought about removing them from my blogroll.
I didn't.
I did however, send them an email alerting them of the tackiness of what they had done, and to never do that again on my blog, or they'd find themselves removed from my blogroll and their ip banned from leaving comments.
Just because you are a fellow blogger, does not mean you can spam your fellow bloggers.

If you want to promote your blog or feature, or an article, send a personable email, not a BCC to 100 bloggers, and explain that you are trying to drum up some traffic for your blog or feature, give us the option of looking at it.
Another option is to set up an email subscription service and allow people to opt in.
You can find a great list of suggestions for programs in the comments of Problogger on this post.
Post your opt in on your blog, let people choose to get emails from you about your site, your posts, features and articles you want people to come see.

I am opted in on only one blog, Faster Than The World, because I enjoy the emails, I love finding out about their upcoming polls, articles etc. They don't spam the heck outta me either, it's probably once every two weeks I get a newsletter from them.

So in closing, when leaving a comment, be on topic to the post they have written, relate your own story, be personable.
We like it.
We don't like spam.

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