Yes there are great benefits... but people do not like how comments look at this time

I disabled comments on images as I didnt want to deal with all the spam and whatever dissing it might bring. Dissing from NON SY people of course is what I mean 

Same here. But I do allow comments on the blog page I put up. But a) I enabled Akismet to catch the spam and b) I think we have the capability of approving comments, don't we? So if someone got too out of line, we could nix it. I could be wrong about that tho.

To answer the Original question... yes there are many benefits to blogging and commenting on and about images.

Google loves this stuff.

If there is an image, in the SY network and they don't allow comments, then create your own blog post, place your comment there and link to the image.

If you like something that someone wrote, and you write about it ( and link) in your blog then that helps both parties.

So blog, link, comment away, we all win.

As for comments on images, I have it enabled ( I think) for most of my images... but no spam ( so far)... I have comments set to moderation... I am told about them, but they don't appear until I OK them.

BTW mylazy photographer blog is located at:http://glennspecht.com/wp/category/s10-blogs/c59-lazy-photographer-photo-blog/] [url]http://glennspecht.com/wp/category/s10-blogs/c59-lazy-photographer-photo-blog/[/url]       

Quite often customers leave questions on your images as well regarding how they can use them. It gives you a chance to interact and be friendly, plus the interest / content is gauged by search engines and gives you bonuses.

So far I have comments enabled and get a few spammers a day, think I might start requiring registration first,

I have left a message on cathys and will try and do a few more today

Akismet is free for non-commercial use

I was notified of your comment, will approve later today.


Akismet...so i suppose that means we do have to pay for it?