Comments are a very good medium to be in touch of your readers.Your readers can directly interact with you using this.They can share their stuff, they can tell you about some point which you might have missed and they can directly ask a question if some of the points you have discussed is not clear to them.
The benefits of using comments on your blog is countless but sometimes they can become problematic.I have encountered a problem while using comments on my blog.This problem has caused such a pain in my a&& that I have to remove comment section from my blog.
At the time of writing this post my blog is just a month old and I got about 160 comments in my comments section.Such a nice thing ,isn,t it? You may think why I am disturbed with the number of comments that are coming.
Honestly I am not concerned about numbers but I am really concerned about comment spams.Spammers are making useless and off topic comments on my blog to get a link or two from my blog pages which is intolerable for me.I would be the most happy person to award a link if it is on topic and really informative.But comments just for links are unbearable to me.
So, I got about 160 comments but to my disappointment all the comments were spam.Majority of them were off topic comments and some of them contained nothing but a link.I got tired moderating and deleting those comments.
I was so much disappointed that I just closed my comment section to everyone.
But by doing so I have also closed the doors to my readers for no fault of theirs.For this I have got one idea.
I have decided to use a contact form on my blog.So,now my readers will now be able to discuss their issues with me.
In next 2-3 days you might find a 'contact me' page on my blog.You can use that form to contact me and discuss your issues and also to share your stuff.This way I will also be able to keep away spammers as they will now not get links from me.
Happy commenting !!
