If you have not visited Derek’s sites I strongly recommend it. He always has fantastic advice.

At first I was thinking that they must have thought the site was spam due to the free giveaway contest. There are so many big-name blogs doing the same thing that there is no way you can classify someone as spam for that.

Reading what likwidshoe mentioned, I guess I can see how some site owners might lump different comments into spam due to targeted keywords in the name field for the comment. IMO, that is good SEO practice on the part of the person leaving the comment although I know I have questioned a few like that on my own sites.

Glad to hear that things were resolved though!

My site is legitimate and once again we see how spammers are like terrorists. They ruin our way of life.

We’ve been getting hit by shady services such as this. Sometimes the comments are short (“Great post”) and other times they are thoughtful comments such as the one you left (so that they have less of a chance of getting erased). The purpose is the same though: to spam. Your name and link looked to be one of the spam comments from one of the pay-for-comments services.

I hope you understand. You were a victim of friendly fire and nothing more. I’ll take off the site block and restore your name and link.

For the record – you do have spammy looking names. With the aforementioned comment spam services taking off in the blog world, you can expect that other blogs will start treating your name as if it were spam.

Hope to see you back at site Jake. No hard feelings please.