Can I be your blog moderator. Will charge $0.01 per moderation which I think is reasonable!? All kidding aside I don’t think your blog requires much moderation as your providing knowledge as apposed to the many design blogs offering a freebie or download which people use to download in the first instance then write a worthless comment followed by a link to there website. I think you can expect certain types of comments depending on the blog and content. I wouldn’t imagine you would be spammed a great deal but then I could be wrong.

I’ve commented on one of your blogs regarding stats saying.

We in the UK have just had a broadcast by the BBC telling us that ‘Two search requests on the internet website Google produce “as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle”, according to a Harvard University academic’. If that were correct your stats show you could run a small country. I’m sorry but I can’t help imagining that someone got their sums wrong.

Now I am getting paranioid about my carbon footprint by leaving a comment never mind searching. So the choice is do I leave a comment, or do the readers search Google for ‘bbc search term kettle’ or go get another coffee.

Love the blog! Hopefully this would be a question with general interest in the SEO community.

Google suggests that SERP is not affected by CTR. “While accurate meta descriptions can improve clickthrough, they won’t impact your ranking within search results.” (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264&hl=en). I thought I had a good hypothesis on the workings of SERP/SEO until I read that help page. I’ve manged about $50MM on Google SEM and am surprised that Google would use CTR as measure of quality in SEM but would not in SEO.

Keep up the great posts and thanks in advance.

Information relating to Google in Europe is not also complete as yours.

Beaucoup de recommandation dans vos “Guidelines for comments” mais aucune pour les commentaires en français. Je me demandais si les commentaires en français posaient un problème sur votre blog ?

Les sources d’informations relatives à Google en Europe ne sont pas aussi complètes que les vôtres.

@Matt:

First you have a beer with me for destroying the image I had the Google could give a rats ass about small business owners. We do that at the Venice Pier. Then we go for a ride on the Marina del Rey water-bus, which only runs in the summer months, to El Torrito for a few more beers and maybe a Cadillac Margarita.

Then we laugh about how Obama got the nomination and throw up. On board?

I guess you can hire someone to reply your comments? That would be a nice, although I am sure you dont need any PR - But even the hired person cannt possibly comment to all so he will have his own guidelines from you

And all bloggers who get a comment from you can have a widget that can show “Matt Cutts” commented on me badge. Atleast I would like to show one such badge

Thanks!

The “Me too” comments seems to be a problem everywhere.

As far as I know, in China, the most popular nonsense comment seems to be “Sofa”, and in Japan, the most popular nonsense comment seems to be “1 get”.

Sad to see so much garbage on Internet. Wish someday the search engine can not only show the useful information, but also the useful comments.

Mark