Cool Blog Commenting Trick!

[dadamson]

For those of you who love blog commenting to get backlinks, here is a trick I discovered by accident that pushed me to #1 position for a competitive product launch...

When searching for related blogs to comment on, I usually use the following search term in Google:

"[Keyword]" "Post A Comment" INURL:blog name email website

This returns results relating to my keyword, that contain the text "post a comment" and have the word "blog" in the URL, and also contain the words "name", "email", and "website" (often at the comment submission form).

But, this is what I figured out after a jump to number one:

I had hundreds of backlinks coming from one domain, I looked into it a little more and found that this domain had a "recent comments" widget attached the sidebar which put my link in front of hundreds of pages and probably THOUSANDS of viewers.

This influx of backlinks jumped me up to #1 in Google and I stayed there even after my comment was pushed off the recent comments widget.

Now, whenever making blog comments, I remember to add the tag "Recent Comments" to my search tag to find these goldmines:

"Recent Comments" "[Keyword]" "Post A Comment" INURL:blog name email website

This definitely won't be a new trick to some of you but I encourage some of the newbies and blog commenters to try this little tip.

You will need to wait for the moderator to approve the comment in most cases so remember to comment on a blog where the recent comments where written within the last few months.. Otherwise you may have hit an abandoned blog.

Hope you guys get some use out of that!

Cheers,
Dave

[briantalk]

I have seen it in my blog statistics page, so I guess its time for me to use it too. Thanks.

[JRCarson]

Thanks Dave! Awesome tip!

[dadamson]

No probs!

Another thing to mention is that this works extremely well on dofollow blogs.

If you are running Firefox there is a plugin called nodofollow that will help you check for dofollow links in the sidebar.

A good thing about this tip is that you don't necessarily need to sort the blogs by Page Rank because the purpose of the exercise is spread your link around the entire site, your original post might be on a PR0 post but spread around to 100 PR3 posts if you're lucky!

[App Developers]

Thanks for sharing. I will have to try this out tomorrow for sure!!

[SEO Agency]

Pretty good tips mate, gonna try this.

[currenz]

Thanks for sharing this cool trick. I will give it a try.

[TSDMike]

Neat observation thanks for sharing!!

I have noticed that and heard this technique as well... but actually searching for blogs that widget specifically isn't something I'd thought of doing.

One point to add, another common feature on blogs people like to use is the 'top commenters' widget. It takes a little longer to make that list, as you have to contribute more comments to qualify. But the staying power is significantly higher, since it will be longer since you are overthrown from the list.

[johndee]

Thanks for the tips dadamson! I'll try it.

[dadamson]

Originally Posted by TSDMike

Neat observation thanks for sharing!!

I have noticed that and heard this technique as well... but actually searching for blogs that widget specifically isn't something I'd thought of doing.

One point to add, another common feature on blogs people like to use is the 'top commenters' widget. It takes a little longer to make that list, as you have to contribute more comments to qualify. But the staying power is significantly higher, since it will be longer since you are overthrown from the list.

Thanks for the contribution! Another great tip for making the most out of your blog comments.

I have done a little research and these are the most used terms for top commenters widgets:

- "Top Commenters"
- "Top Contributors"

So you can mix up "Recent Comments" with the above two keywords for some staying power in your backlinks. Problem is that there are generally less search results for these keywords, still worth going for though.

Cheers,

[helterskelter]

This is a very smart way to search - thank you so much for the tip.

It seems it would be important to have the search engines crawl these pages ASAP while your comments still show up in the sidebars. What steps do you take to encourage that?

Thanks again!

[Chevy5]

Thanks for the tip. Gotta try this.

[MarkSveik]

Thanks! Will definitely try this.

[oogyboogawa]

I've played with this a little bit since you posted on one of my threads yesterday. Haven't had a whole lot of time to put into it though and so far haven't had any luck getting comments approved on any of these blogs (several awaiting moderation and they are all relevant to the post I commented on though).

[gr8tocre8]

Awesome tip, thanks!

[helterskelter]

OK, I've been playing with this search string all evening. I just placed a comment on a page that is PR6 (it's already been approved) and hopefully I can get some oomph from the other pages on that site. Found several other great blogs (PR2-4) to add to my list tonight as well. I definitely had to get creative with the keywords due to the limited search results. Good stuff.

[Diane S]

Originally Posted by helterskelter

I just placed a comment on a page that is PR6 (it's approved been approved)

You found an instant approval PR6 blog post? That is one huge gold feather in your cap! Congratulations!

[DIGITALCHAMELEON]

Good tips, but i want to share mine technique to look for a related blog commenting sites- "powered by wordpress"+"keyword"+"leave a comment"

[wonderd]

great trick, but still hard to find good blogs

[helterskelter]

Originally Posted by Diane S

You found an instant approval PR6 blog post? That is one huge gold feather in your cap! Congratulations!

Thanks, Diane! I was really, really excited about that! It's not instant approval, but apparently the site owner manually approved it within about 15-20 minutes because I checked back and it was live. I definitely put some effort into that comment before submitting it!

[dadamson]

Originally Posted by oogyboogawa

I've played with this a little bit since you posted on one of my threads yesterday. Haven't had a whole lot of time to put into it though and so far haven't had any luck getting comments approved on any of these blogs (several awaiting moderation and they are all relevant to the post I commented on though).

Great! I usually expect most comments to be moderated within half a month. A lot of people don't check comments that frequently.

Originally Posted by helterskelter

This is a very smart way to search - thank you so much for the tip.

It seems it would be important to have the search engines crawl these pages ASAP while your comments still show up in the sidebars. What steps do you take to encourage that?

I have experimented a couple of ways to make the most of these viral comments and I personally do the following (although even without doing anything I get great results - I guess from other people pinging for their own comments)

I make a list of all the URLs on the site that your comment went viral on:

INURL:websitedomain.com

Create and spin an article related to his website and in the resource box I would spin all the links, plus a few links to my site and submit to as many directories as I can.

Then I would get these article links, the blog pages, AND a few pages from my site and run them through a social bookmarking campaign.

It's like pouring hot chocolate sauce on a Christmas pudding

Originally Posted by wonderd

great trick, but still hard to find good blogs

True, but be creative with the keywords you are searching with, they don't need to be exact, just close enough to your niche. Try broader terms.

[krish21]

Thanks for the share. I will try this.

[corsleymaxwell]

That is cool. Thank you for sharing. This can help a lot. I hope blog commenter will find this helpful.

[basementfoundationrepair]

It is a very interesting post. I have generally used this technique for blog commenting:

"keyword" in url:blog site:.com
I am very excited to use this new tactic. I hope it will work. Thanks for sharing it.

[dadamson]

Originally Posted by basementfoundationrepair

It is a very interesting post. I have generally used this technique for blog commenting:

"keyword" in url:blog site:.com
I am very excited to use this new tactic. I hope it will work. Thanks for sharing it.

Yeah, that's what I used to do to, until I got a bit fancy with it.

Your technique tends to yeild a fair amount of results that require signups to comment or don't allow comments at all.

Simply by adding "Post A Comment" or "Leave A Comment", "Have Your Say", (get creative)

And tacking on "Name" "Email" "Website", you only get the Juiciest results.

Better ROI

[redstanford]

Originally Posted by dadamson

Create and spin an article related to his website and in the resource box I would spin all the links, plus a few links to my site and submit to as many directories as I can.

Then I would get these article links, the blog pages, AND a few pages from my site and run them through a social bookmarking campaign.

It's like pouring hot chocolate sauce on a Christmas pudding

that seems like a lot of extra work to get links indexed by google

[landjs]

Thanks for these tips! Backlinking is harder than I thought.

[jonnyhardbaked]

Thanks for this useful tips. I will try it on.

[janfav]

Thanks a lot, i am a new person in the internet marketing field, and i am just building my website, with the help of somebody, its quite tricky though; but i have been commenting in people's blogs. You have just increased my knowledge and awareness.

knowledge is power! thanks a lot.

[dadamson]

Originally Posted by redstanford

that seems like a lot of extra work to get links indexed by google

It's not just to get the links indexed. It's to create a second layer of backlinking and then a third layer.

It's like a massive link wheel and it gives me the most juice to my target pages as well as indexing the backlinks.

This method does take a little extra work, but it has given me way better results than simply pinging the links until they get indexed.

[pdrs]

Great stuff,

Just tried this out and it worked excellently. It does take a bit of searching to find a good blog, but it's nice to see your link showing up on that blogroll Cheers!

[oogyboogawa]

I just found an auto-approve blog with this feature on it - unfortunately it is PR0 and I doubt any of the pages have any PR either. It seems to be a news scraping site.

Regardless... it has 1900 pages indexed in Google so that's pretty nice...

[amanijl]

Awesome trick, I just found a PR3 blog to comment on with my first try! Thank you

[dadamson]

Good job guys.

It's really one of those perks of doing SEO. By no means is it absolutely necessary, but if you have a page that seems to be stuck in a certain position this technique can usually push you along.

The PR0 blog may not be worth as much but with that amount of pages you would be crazy to go for it while you're there.

Again, as someone mentioned above, finding "best commenter" or something (based on the largest number of approved comments by one user) you will have the potential to keep those backlinks for a lot longer.

[AngelaLuo]

I am doing blog comments right these days and this is really very useful tip for me.Thanks so much.

[dadamson]

Great, I am glad this has become a useful post for a lot of you! Remember to just get out there and take action with whatever you are doing for your SEO.

SEO doesn't wait for you

[thebitbotdotcom]

Great tip dadamson. I stumbled across that too about a year ago. It gets you tons of temporary links and potentially a solid SERP boost.

It is like blog commenting on steroids.

[valeriewalton]

Cool, I often use inurl in order to find blogs that are related to the keywords I am using, now I have more option on searching for a blog to comment with.

[Quasha]

You also use this string.

“keyword” inurl:blog ” "post a comment" -"comments are closed" -"you must be logged in"

By using this you will find a blog where comments are allowed and you don't have to be logged in. This process may also help in blog commenting.

[ajohan2004]

this is really very useful tip and awesome

[FabianSmith]

Thanks Dave useful and amazing tips.

[goldhome]

thank you so much for this post. Really helped a lot.

[Shiva]

Thanks for the great tip!

[Moneyerr]

This is very good trick now i can also use this one.

[chinna44]

Wow great tip.. Thanks

[BarcsHasBite]

This is a good tip.. unfortunately everything is nofollow nowadays

[entrepreneurjay]

My blog has the recent comments widget installed as well as the top commentators plugin feel free to stop in. Provide a good comment please no spam.

[Knowledge Kick]

This is an AWESOME tip. Bookmarked. Thanks!

[rosesmark]

Thanks Dave useful and amazing tips.

[samual james]

i have one doubt about bolog commenting is it better to do blog commenting on blog whose blog commenting is powered by disqus