While not as extreme as banning blog comments altogether, it can severely reduce the number of comments you receive in your posts.

Let’s face it, we already deal with a multitude of usernames and passwords, and blogs are designed to be an easy communication platform to set up, publish to and for readers to access.

By adding additional layers of registration, and requiring users to login each time they’d like to comment, you’re increasing the frustration level for your users, even if they are able to remember their passwords 99% of the time.

If spam comments are an issue, use a spam-administration plugins like akismet or spam karma.
Enable comment moderation if you have to.

Sure I get more than my fair share of junk comments.

I also get comments (some from well meaning folk) which have no value and which would destroy that 5 to 10 seconds of your time if you read it. So I delete those.

It takes some time, but I’m not about to shortchange you by blanket approving every single comment that comes in.

If the blogger isn’t out to protect his or her readers interest, who is?

They say in the service industry, “the customer comes first”.

As a blogger, my mantra has always been, “the reader comes first”.

Reward your readers, and they will reward you with their loyalty.

• If you’re a blogger, you want to optimize your post titles and/or categories to include keywords so you can be found easily.

• If you’re an affiliate marketer, the optimal keywords will help you target your paid ad to a searcher’s preferences.

• If you’re an Internet surfer, type the right keywords into the search engine will ensure that you will find relevant information.

• If you’re a product creator, you might like to create niche websites based around high value keywords.

A whole industry has sprung up around providing these keywords.

You have expensive software, with costs running into the hundreds as a norm, rather than an exception.

You have web-based services providing keywords for a monthly subscription.

But how would you like to harvest keywords in your sleep?

In many cases, these could either be low value, high volume (in terms of number of searches) keywords.

Other times, they could be high value, low volume keywords.

What’s best is you’ll get these keywords delivered to you every day.

And they’ll deliver it to you free.

Who’s this service provider?

Frankly, I haven’t a clue, but I suspect it could be Super Affiliate Marketers.

If you’ve a sub-50,000 Alexa-ranked blog, you get the priority service, with hundreds of freshest keywords and keyphrase combinations delivered to you, 24-7.

It’s easier if you have a WordPress blog and the Akismet spam plugin.

Just look through the spam catcher and look through the spam comments you’ve received.

Build your keyword list from there.

For example, if you were looking at a pharmaceutical-related niche site, you might like to take the spammers benevolent keyword providers suggestions to include gems like:

• Smallpox Vaccine
• Valsartan
• purchase viagra
• cialis soft tabs
• levitra online

If your tastes lean towards Japanese animation (huge demand there), take the spamming idiot’s animation specialist’s advice to build content based on:

• sexy anime
• anime boy
• inuyasha anime picture
• anime guys
• anime image
• free anime wallpaper
• anime art
• one piece anime
• anime toy
• anime torrent
• anime icon
• japan anime
• anime expo
• advanced anime
• anime news
• anime avatars
• death note anime
• anime series
• anime cartoon sex
• yaoi anime

There’re about another 100 keyphrases, which I’ll spare you for the moment.

With so many handy helpers on the Internet, I’m just awestruck that keyword providers continue to do a roaring trade.

And on a long boring evening, I might even be tempted to google for “fruit basket anime” to see what the keyphrase pulls up.