What does this post have to do with circus poodles? We’ll get to that later. The points that I really want to talk about here are blogging and the comments that readers post on blogs. Blogging for me is a hobby of sorts, something that I do because I enjoy blogging and the relationships that it can build. I also enjoy the business side, sharing business ideas with others, the providing and sharing of information, etc.

The point that I’m trying to make here is that blogging itself is a natural exchange of ideas and information between individuals with similar interests. Should it be left to that natural state or should it be altered? Some bloggers, especially those that do it from a profit standpoint are very concerned with what’s on their blog. You can comment on some blogs, go back the next day, only to see that your comment has been altered or removed. This can be a little frustrating from a commenter standpoint, considering you have put time and thought into what you had to say. Would you feel ripped off if your spam free comment was deleted from a post or would you be able to understand the situation that the blogger is in?

I personally feel that blogging should be left in it’s natural state, comments and all. I am one sided on this mostly because I think that blogging is not the best way to make money online. For those of you that feel the other way I understand that blogging is your livelihood and that comments can have an impact on rankings, optimization, etc. I just really want to know how others feel on this topic.

To show the readers here how comments can have an impact on your blog and your blog rankings, do a search for circus poodles on Google. If you look closely, this blog happens to be near the top of the search results. Thanks to Charles over at Open Source Marketer I now rank quite well for the search term circus poodles, it’s too bad I don’t breed them on the side.