Due to an overwhelming amount of comment spam, my friend James Brausch recently turned off the ability to post comments on his blog.

However, he just tipped his hat to a brilliant and positive “side effect” that not allowing comments will produce for him.

Increased link popularity!

You see… The only way to leave a comment on his blog now is to add a trackback post on your own blog (as I’m doing right now.)

So now, when he posts one of his though provoking challenges (such as his current “guess what this graph is“) post, he will have dozens of other bloggers giving him links, via trackbacks while informing their readers about his blog at the same time.

I know that this was not the main reason he turned off comments. I really believe that he did it due to the amount of spam he was getting.…

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