There is no algorithm to this, no way to create rules and follow them absolutely. In the end, it’s my call. I’m willing to give people the benefit of the doubt until they prove to be untrustworthy.

I had considered using the word Remarkablogger instead of blog consultant. But I wanted to put those words there for people who are actively looking for one (or, sometimes, didn’t know they wanted one until they see such a thing exists). Since I have been hired by people who have read my comments on other blogs, this makes the most sense to me as a strategy. For blogs that have no-follow turned off, it might help in the SEO deptartment, but only time will tell.

That is, he would if he freakin’ came out to play more!

In your case, using Michael Martine probably won’t have the same result since unless someone has heard of you it’s just a name and they’ll have little reason to search that name on Google, but you might want to consider using ‘Remarkablogger’ as your name since a search for ‘remarkablogger’ on Google pulls your site as the top listing.

Irony abounds, doesn’t it? Many bloggers don’t have a very distinct way of branding themselves. Those that do would probably do well to work it in. But let’s keep in mind that just keywords or phrases in there that make it awkward or impossible to address a commentator are what’s unacceptable to me. I know you know that, Stephen, I’m just sayin’, is all.

I’m glad to see you’ve soften your comment policy a bit. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with creating brand name recognition, i.e. adding my blog name along with my personal name.

But the name field in your comment section actualy doesn’t allow me to add anything more than my name so I couldn’t fill in my blog name even if I wanted to.

The funny thing is that your original comment policy actually got me to think about taking my blog name off and just leaving my name in the comments.

And I’ve since begun to just leave my name when leaving comments. How funny is that?