I’ve had a complicated relationship with blog comments for a while. They are great when they are authentic, but with blatant comment spam, as well as people making lame comments to drop a link, they were always a mixed bag for me.

Over the years, I tried all sorts of solutions, such as Akismet, Bad Behavior, Disqus, IntenseDebate, and JS-Kit.

It didn’t matter. The comment spam kept coming.

At the same time, comments were slowing down on my blogs, but I was seeing an increase of comments on Facebook when I posted links there to my posts.

I’m just as guilty as anybody else. I have commented way more on Facebook than on blogs over the years.

Gradually, I shut down comments on my sites. And it looks like I’m not alone.

I saw yesterday that Sté Kerwer recommends closing them down in a new post, “Disable Comments for a Better Blog“.

But he has comments open on the post.

We got an irate email this past Friday from somebody who applied to the Affiliate Summit Affiliate Program.

We turned down the application, because we decided the site was not relevant.

It usually ends there, but in this case, the interested affiliate turned out to be somebody who is going to be a speaker at Affiliate Summit East 2013.

And recently I encouraged speakers to apply to the affiliate program, so they could make some money promoting their upcoming speaking role.

In this case, the affiliate had just the one site listed in his profile.

We figured out the confusion and peace was restored, and he was accepted into the affiliate program, but too often affiliates run the risk of being rejected, because of the site(s) they do and do not list in their profile.

Had there been multiple sites, we either would have made a different decision or contacted the affiliate to ask which URL we should be reviewing.

Our affiliate program is on ShareASale, and affiliates can list additional sites in their profile, as I have done in the example below.

So go and check all of your affiliate profiles and ensure that you’ve got the most up to date information in there.

Don’t let outdated profiles hold you back from doing more business.

I’ve written about Datafeedr in the past as a paid WordPress plugin that I have used to create affiliate sites with datafeeds.

I looked around at the alternatives a while back, and I didn’t see anything in a league with Datafeedr.

But I recently came across WP All Import and it looks like another quality plugin to import XML or CSV datafeeds into WordPress.

The WP All Import plugin enables affiliates to quickly create a ready-to-promote affiliate store with thousands of products.

Also, the plugin works with any theme.

Please note that I have not personally used it, yet, but I plan to in the future.

More Information at wpallimport.com.