I’m always doing experiments with my blog to figure out ways to improve it.
Yesterday I decided to remove the captcha from the comment form to see if that had an impact on the number of comments received. It looks like I had a 30 or 40% increase in the number of comments in the last day while my traffic remained unchanged.
I think I will leave the captcha off for now and continue with this experiment. My hope is that the number of comments increases since people are no longer required to do math to leave a comment.
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Nothing wrong with captchas, except that when you forget to enter the result/code and submit your comment, it is gone. This is annoying, but my own fault -> resulting in rethinking my comment and maybe write something even better.
I only hope that oyu don't get too much comment spam now that it is disabled. I once had a blog and drowned in spam until I came up with captcha plus email verification – annoying for the visitors, but good for me as it raised the bar on quality.
I give you credit for this experiment Nick.
Hopefully you get a surge in comments and they are not too spammy.
Andy
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It is kind of ironic that this particular comment of yours ended up in my spam bucket. I think it's because of your common luv back link "Santander Credit Card Review"
My guess is that anything with the words credit card are automatically thrown in the spam bucket.
Dang
I guess so.
I have this CC site that gets really good click revenue when the tumble-weed traffic rolls into town. I was just trying to get a useful link. I wrote a new article for that site too. Hoo hum.
Andy
Never found the maths too hard but, yes I too have forgotten and lost a comment or two. My guess is that people abandon at the point.
The real test is how much span you end up with
I hope the math wasn't the reasons why people were not commenting. I know most people should be able to do the math. Maybe it was because they didn't' see it?