So, I log in today to moderate comments, and I always look through the spam folder, because occasionally a valid comment accidentally winds up there. I almost had to go to the hospital I was laughing so hard when I saw this one…

Note: I am editing this slightly to take out some adult content, and kill the 4 links they included in this crap…

“HELP! I’m currently being held prisoner by the Russian mafia xyzrxyz {edited for content} xyzrxyz and being forced to post spam comments on blogs and forum! If you don’t approve this they will kill me. xyzrxyz{edited for content}xyzrxyz They’re coming back now. xyzrxyz {edited for content}xyzrxyz Please send help!”

Just how far will people go to get their spam posted online? And the bad thing is, they actully are stupid enough to think someone will fall for it, and approve this crap.  Sorry but I get a little agitated when it comes to people spamming me and my friends.

I was torn between laughing so hard I split my side, and getting pissed that someone sent this crap to my blog. Anyway, I am wondering if I should report this to the authorities…( I doubt that there is any truth to the comment, but then again….spammers will do anything to get their crap online. why not start taking hostages?)

What do you think? Should I let it go, or try to report it to someone? Also, if you think I should report it, who should I turn it in to? I am stumped on this one.

My guest post at Famous Bloggers is live.

I  focused this one on how to start a conversation using blog comments. Stop by and leave a relevant comment, join in the conversation, and give your site some exposure.

As I am looking around, I am starting to see just how much effect I am getting by using guest posts on blogs. I just started, but I am already getting more traffic, meeting some great people, and my readership has just exploded.  And this without wasting hours of time link building, and struggling to get a ranking in Google.

I guess this goes into the marketing blunders list. Putting off starting to guest post was a really bad idea. I should have done it earlier. Now though, I am jumping into allowing guest posts as well. So if you want to give your site some more exposure, and work together to build a community online, let me know and we will get started right away.

As we look into the future, it is apperent that using social skills, and building real relationships with our readers is where business online is going. As the search engines get smarter, sites with a social presence, with an internal community, as well as showing up in social atmosphere elsewhere is going to be important.

It doesn’t matter if you have a static website already. Create a subdomain, or subdirectory, and start blogging. Or, go buy a relevant doamin and blog on that. If you have the  .com domain, get the .net and start a blog on it. This way you get more exposure, you can build up links to your main site, and funnel traffic to your offer.

Personally,I am pulling away from the static sites, and going more and more into blogging. You can make a full time income doing it, and it is more fun.

With my static sites, I can spend weeks or months building links, and trying to throw traffic at the site. However, I can start up a new blog, post 10-15 good posts on it, make 2-3 guest posts, spending about 6 -8 hours of time researching and writing them, and get instant traffic going to the blog, sometimes without Google even having the pages indexed yet.

So, what are you doing to build a conversation with your blog? Let me know how you are doing it, and join our blog comment giveaway.