News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Published: Mar 04, 2008 - 03:41 pm
Story Found By: theGypsy 1542 Days ago
Category: SEM
15 Comments
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News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Published: Mar 04, 2008 - 03:41 pm
Story Found By: theGypsy 1542 Days ago
Category: SEM
15 Comments
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Hi Dave - Thanks for submitting this. This is one area that I haven’t seen addressed much but can play such a crucial factor on social news sites especially.
Awesome!(Sorry, couldn’t resist...)
@torka - well done :)On a lot of the smaller sites, it’s not as frowned upon. Probably because there is a closer knit community and thus encouragement isn’t really looked at as overly suspicious.
I had also heard that comments were somehow figuring into the Digg promotion algo.My own limited experience seems to indicate that a good disagreement or fight, plus some trash talk (not from the poster!) seems to help on Digg. Which is a bit discouraging, but it’s real, I guess.
@markdykeman - just want to be careful because if it gets too out of hand and really one-sided, people can bury the story because they don’t agree with the comments...
@chriswinfield - don’t disagree. I’ve noticed, however, on the few stories that I have hit FP, that there were some lively conversations happening between other people in the comments. I’m not a fight picker, personally.
@ Chris.... NP - as an old forum fly from back in the day (U know... 2005? remember?) I find comments on social sites/blogs to be a new form of that. I tend to treat them much the same. In some ways, I am even more on good behavoir as it feels like some one elses home ( a forum can feel like home after a few thousand posts). Comments are a major part of the ’social’ in Social media...
For sure Dave. Many companies want to partake in social media to "get in on the conversation" so to speak but tend to forget that...
This article is a good reminder of how much I suck at tone. Where’s an article on the tone of different words and what phrases to avoid!?
Great post! (oops, sry..that’s like saying "Awesome!" isn’t it?)
I appreciated the points made in this article, but the one I have often seen cited and which I differ with is the concept that simple praise is not welcome.While I know I much prefer it when my blog’s readers leave in-depth comments agreeing, disagreeing, sharing their special viewpoints, I don’t feel annoyed by my regular readers remarking, "this was great."I’d rather have them leave a note of praise if they’ve read the article than not bothering to comment at all, you know? It’s a nice way for them to say they appreciated an article, even if they don’t have anything major to contribute after reading it. In other words, those small comments are like a little thank you note, to my mind, and I like them.Miriam
This post cleary has provoked an interesting dialog. This community is exciting. Social media is exciting.
Thanks for that.
Great article. Humour is important, although in some countries it would be difficult to find an audience with humor. For example in Germany, where I live:)
This is a wonderful and exciting post to read. I was wondering has anyone got any knowledgeof GOOGLE’s new trouble steming from it rendition of creative works (GOOGLEsites)? Today a top GOOGLE executive cashed in $8.9 million in stock? Hum! Can anyone post a story about what is going on in GOOGLE inc.? Very interesting?