Effectiveness of blog comments?

[adam westrop]

What is the effectiveness of blog comments?

How long after the comment, do you see the effects?

Adam

[Amenda Jessera]

Blog comments will help you to get good SEO juice. If you can get blog comments from your niche related blogs, I am pretty sure that within 1-2 weeks you will be able to notice an increment in your SERP. I have seen the same output for my sites.

But that is not enough, you have to go for other link building ways too.

[sarah_may]

Originally Posted by adam westrop

What is the effectiveness of blog comments?

How long after the comment, do you see the effects?

Adam

Often you get backlinks through blog comments are nofolllow and do not have any link juice and do not help in getting ranking for a site but still helpful in terms of diverting traffic to a site and increase your web presence.

[adam westrop]

Thanks anymore for anymore?

[tjcocker]

Even no follow and unrelated blogs will help your SERPS. Not as much, but yes they help. Why do we have to keep rehashing this?

[JoshH]

Originally Posted by tjcocker

Even no follow and unrelated blogs will help your SERPS. Not as much, but yes they help. Why do we have to keep rehashing this?

How exactly do NOFOLLOW blog comments help your SERPS? I thought that nofollow had no affect.

[Zeus66]

It's debatable. Only Google acknowledges that they pay any attention to that tag, so if you care at all about rankings in Yahoo and Bing, then NOFOLLOW links still matter. And they probably matter at Google, but possibly not as much. Again, it's debatable.

When I do blog commenting, I almost always look for direct traffic more than the ranking effects. You can get a nice bit of targeted visitors from blogs related to your niche. But the comments need to be thoughtful and relevant. You need to add to the discussion, not just come in with a "Thanks!" or "I agree" message.

John

[jazbo]

Hello Adam from Norwich in England. Small world ;-)

Blog comments can be beneficial, but mostly they are low value - to - worthless.

Don't spend too much time on them unless you can find high traffic relevant blogs so you may get clickthrough traffic passed along as well.

[MarkAse]

Doesn't a lot of it depend on how many outgoing links the blog has? I mean if a blog has a PR of 4 or 5 and they don't have many comments or a large blogroll....doesn't that pass on some PR?

[HCLee]

It is important to select not just dofollow blogs to comment but to comment on those with the top commentator list. Try to be a top commentator so that you get sitewide links from all the blog posts.

[jasonmorgan]

I'll admit... I'm a recovering blog commenting addict.

They are easy to drop, show up really fast and can make an impact on your site very quickly. It's also very easy to lose control and turn into a spambot hitting every blog you can find on the net leaving garbage comments.

My advice, take your time and find some blogs that you like, around 20, that meet the SEO criteria you are looking for.

Ideally you want dofollow, but as stated above, nofollow blogs aren't as bad as some people have made them out to be.

Don't spam these blogs, take your time and leave quality comments over a longer period of time.

Aim for about 10 good comment backlinks from each site over the course of a month or two (depends on their posting rate). If you're working with a group of 20 blogs you'll have 200 backlinks from 10 sites. That is a nice little chunk of backlinks to get your site rolling.

Once you have your 10 comments on each of these blogs move on to another group of blogs.

Yes, it is spam but you can spam responsibly and as a benefit you're links have a greater chance to stick.

Here is a tip to find niche related blogs... go to the google blog search and type in your keywords... BAM... the latest blog posts all relevant to your keywords. Need more blogs? Do a backlink search on the others spammers who have already commented on the site and you'll never run out of blogs.

Hitting every blog on the blog with "Yea, great post... here is a completely unrelated link" does work but you face a greater chance of your comments being deleted, being added to askimet spam list (I've got sites on it ) and it's disrespectful to the site and turns the net into a giant toilet... and nobody likes a swirly.

[RedEvo]

The value of a link is proportional to the ease with which you can secure it. Blog comments are very often no followed and are generally very low value when they are not.

d

[Marketing Ignite]

According to Matt Cutts the head engineer at Google against webspam says specifically that no follow does not pass any link juice nor anchor texts...So there you have it...Dont use blog comments to spam or post for the sake of getting links in order to boost ranking because you just waste your time.....Instead participate as an active and useful member and you will get natural direct traffic to your website instead....Even if the blog links would count (without no follow), they are very weak links in nature so nothing to pursue and waste your time on...There are better things to do in SEO....

[sarah_may]

Originally Posted by adam westrop

What is the effectiveness of blog comments?

How long after the comment, do you see the effects?

Adam

Well, often you get links from blog comments, are nofollow and do not have any link juice so that they do not helps in terms of ranking but they help in increasing web presence and diverting traffic to a site.