Is blog commenting effective in 2011 seo?

[mikest4u]

Definitely Blog Commenting is one of the Fascinating Way To get qualitative inbound links for your site!!

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by markowe

I am still finding that careful, thought-out comments on high-PR pages (with a backlink of course!) DO get results - it's a real grind, but I always see boosts in rankings. But if I can't add value to a blog with my comment, I will skip it - I don't care if it's PR10. As for spamming with Scrapebox - does ANYONE still do that?! Oh, yeah, they do, judging by the amount of spam on my blogs...

Scrapebox can still be effective on your 2nd or 3rd backlinks. (Higher quality sites that link directly to you. Squidoo Lenses, Hubs, articles, etc.) Since these can usually handle the sudden surge of backlinks.

I'm not a huge fan of blasting away at thousands of blogs because, as a blog owner myself, I know how annoying it is. But that said, most of the auto approve, Scrapebox compatible blogs have long been abandoned anyway.

[RevSEO]

Typically no, its a waste of time and energy.

Why? Most comments can be easily identified, so why should Google pass credit along to those types of links?

Second, there are so many garbage spammers out there that they ruin any quality backlinks in the long run.

If you are using blog comments as your backlink solution in 2011, you should recheck your strategy.

[dominicyordz]

Based on my experience, YES. They help. It is not easy though. Most are nofollow. Plus, there is a chance of your comment getting rejected.

[jgant]

Yes and I like doing it. It's probably my #1 favorite form of building backlinks. I spend 30 minutes to 2 hours a day doing it right now for some testing purposes. I enjoy reading and then joining in on the discussion. It's slow going, but if you get in the mindset of having fun and coming up with valuable comments, it's an easy-going, laid back way to spend a part of each day.

Think of it this way - you can write guest posts (which I also do), but you'll spend much more time on a guest post than a comment. Yet, a comment provides some decent linkjuice (arguably not as good as a guest post on an authoritative website, but good nevertheless).

Blog commenting is something to work at consistently - a few every day instead and over the course of a few months your sites will have some good links.

[Dentist]

Blog commenting can be useful indeed. Considering that you have a mixed of backlinks in place that can show your backlinks are organic, then high PR Page, Do-Follow, right anchor text, Relevant blog comments are some of the best backlinks you can get although they are hard to be obtained. Also think about it this way: setting aside blog comments, there are not that many ways to get high PR page backlinks (not talking about domains) so definitely useful.

[Dentist]

I have not used ScrapeBox YET but as far as I know if works pretty well, in fact some of our competitors have ranked high in very competitive keywords using that as their only main strategy. What is important is to be selective about commenting and by that I mean don't go for blasts instead find few good blogs (high-PR page, do-follow, low OBL, ...blogs) using ScrapeBox and then comment with right anchor text. And also use that as a part of a mix of backlinks in your backlinking strategy and on a continuous basis. That way it is highly effective as of my knowledge.

Originally Posted by JSProjects

Scrapebox can still be effective on your 2nd or 3rd backlinks. (Higher quality sites that link directly to you. Squidoo Lenses, Hubs, articles, etc.) Since these can usually handle the sudden surge of backlinks.

I'm not a huge fan of blasting away at thousands of blogs because, as a blog owner myself, I know how annoying it is. But that said, most of the auto approve, Scrapebox compatible blogs have long been abandoned anyway.

[offshoredataentry]

hi,
Yes blog commenting is effective as it gives useful information and helps in increasing traffic towards our site.

[webjedi]

Originally Posted by simonbuzz

Yes they are and they always will be..

Untrue. I think that blog comments are going to be devalued near zero.
To predict the time frame? Oh that's harder, I am positive the guys at Google are trying to think of a way to sort 99% of comments out from the 1% of "normal commenting" and write an algo for that.

The sheer volume of scrapebox and other tools that are inundating the entire blogsphere has to be dealt with.

Very soon it will be worthless.

WJ

[jenymartin]

blog commenting is very useful in seo, it increases backlinks

[ripdad]

i also wanted to know that after google update in 2011 some say that blog commenting is waste of time , some say it still useful. have anyone get profit form blog commenting after recent update of google.

[ripdad]

Originally Posted by americaupdates

I just started a news blog and I normally approved comments even thought it's not relevances. Does is help me to get the traffcis?

don't do this othrwise your blog will contain spam links. because you are allowing spam links. only approve comments that are relevent to your blog post

[shellarics]

Blog commenting is still useful as long as you've commented to high pr sites in a relevant niche. Make sure your comments are deserving to get approved.

[zannix]

Originally Posted by RevSEO

Typically no, its a waste of time and energy.

Why? Most comments can be easily identified, so why should Google pass credit along to those types of links?

Second, there are so many garbage spammers out there that they ruin any quality backlinks in the long run.

If you are using blog comments as your backlink solution in 2011, you should recheck your strategy.

Hi mister RevSEO,

I think you're dead wrong.

Comments can be easily identified? Great. Because most often people will read a good article and link to another related article that they want to share with the community.

That's what Google is looking for. Vote links. And comments are a great media (a social media) for those kind of links. So, I don't see why Google should 'identify' comment links and disregard them. That's just stupid.

Secondly, if you place a good comment on a high quality web page with an owner that actually cares about his site, you dont need to worry about 'garbage spammers' anyway.

Thirdly... oh yeah, maybe contextual links on homepage would work far better? *wink, signature*

[prcys]

Originally Posted by americaupdates

I think it does bring some traffics to your website. I found out from my news blog when there are comments it will get index by Google and it's pretty fast sometime within 24 hours. Any comments from expert on this issue?

As you know that through blogs one can provide the whole definition on particular word or topic or anything. And as results which google show ,contains the blog results also. And as people always looking to get the complete information and which they get by blog. And this way blog page searched more by people and people spend more time with that page. And such pages that be find many times by user , get the high value and due to usefulness of the page , it fast indexed by the google. And with the blog page , comment also related and by this reason blog comments indexed faster and show the quick effective result.

[Falknersjf]

If the blog comment is useful to users, it should be useful to your SEO and you will get more traffic. I have heard that what the users love is what the search engine love. Am i right? Maybe some experts can give you wise suggestion.

[zannix]

Originally Posted by Falknersjf

I have heard that what the users love is what the search engine love. Am i right?

I think you got it the other way around

[offshoredataentry]

hey,
Yes blog commenting is very effective as it gives many do follow and even no follow links which help in increasing traffic towards the site.

[paulrigby]

Yes blog commenting is one way of increasing backlinks for your site. But due to spammers most of the blog comments are not approved or approved with nofollow backlinks. This backlink will not be counted in Google. But it helps in increasing the ranking of the keyword to some extend.

Also one must be genuine in posting comments, since this is the place where people interact.

[mahol]

Personally, I have started this to gain exposure to new blogs by making comments on popular blog posts.
As far as SEO is concerned, most of the sites which fall in my niche have no-followed anchor text link so I use my real name. But there is a benefit on commenting on blogs who have Top Commentators widget on Sidebar which is Do-Follow in most of the cases.
So, Right from start of the month, try targeting such blogs and to be on #1 and along with exposure you gain link juice too from all blog posts and pages of that domain

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by Daniel Wilson

Blog comments can be really effective if you write quality comments that webmasters will actually accept.

Daniel

This.

A lot of people are still spamming the crap out of blogs with Scrapebox. IMO, this is the wrong way to go about it. Quality > quantity.

[malta]

No, it's just spammy.

[Do]

All methods are effective, including profile blast, but you need to focus on the most effetive methods to win your competiors.

personly i don't sugget you go blog spam. I did extensive test, it might bring some link juice at the beginning, but later google will sense it, you eighter be slapped or out ranked by your competitor easily

[kirakirafuwafuwa]

Getting traffic from blog comments is a myth. Seriously. Would YOU click on keyworded links dropped by blog commenters? I didn't think so either.

[markowe]

Originally Posted by kirakirafuwafuwa

Getting traffic from blog comments is a myth. Seriously. Would YOU click on keyworded links dropped by blog commenters? I didn't think so either.

No, but people will and DO click on thoughtful relevant blog comments (no, not BS spam comments, or ones spammers just THINK are thoughtful and relevant) on high-traffic blogs. And not keyworded links, branded links, like Joe @ Moneyblogger, or whatever (I made that up). If what the person has said is interesting and useful I will certainly click to see what Moneyblogger is all about.

But of course there is no traffic to be had from crappy keyword comment-links on random two-bit blogs that no-one reads, we agree there.

[chrislangley]

I think blog commenting is still good, ofcourse depending on the authority of the blog

[owenlee]

It is still effective if the blog is related to your keyword...

[socialbookmark]

Its useful if you comment on authority blogs. Most blogs are not ranking high and they are not helpful in my opinion.

[bwhosting]

Originally Posted by cashtree

You betcha! Even "nofollow" blogs are are useful because those mixed with dofollows help make your backlinks look more natural. Not to mention if the blogs popular regardless you could get traffic direct through it to yours. I'm a newb though, you may want to hear a seasoned vet's advice.

Hello, I think there are nothing any effect from no follow links, google never recognize.

[timwilson38]

Blog commenting is definitely effective, if the blog is regularly indexed and live and comments should be relevant only and related to your website industry.

[mukeshkumar@]

Both the no-follow and do-follow blog comments is always important for the backlinks. It makes the backlinks natural in front of search engines. And a quality comment is always beneficial as the user may visit the links provided in the signature.

[aeroturner]

Obivously Blog commenting is proved to be one of the most effective link building strategies,post your comments in relevant field, it helps to generate more traffic to our site..

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by kirakirafuwafuwa

Getting traffic from blog comments is a myth. Seriously. Would YOU click on keyworded links dropped by blog commenters? I didn't think so either.

An automated comment? No.

But a well thought out comment? Sure, why not? I see traffic coming from comments all the time. It's not a massive amount by any means, but it's an added bonus.

[addison.agnote]

Originally Posted by Monikacis

Hello Experts,

I have one confusion regarding blog commenting. Is blog commenting effective in 2011 seo?

Thanks a million !

Yes it is still effective. In fact, you can get a lot of exposure by commenting and participating in blog discussions. While you are adding value to the blog you are also gaining credibility for your site/ business.

[ryanmckinney]

Many people seem to give the thumbs up for blog commenting..

This person seems to disagree

I would like to see some feedback from accomplished SEOers?

Ryan

[JohnMcCabe]

Originally Posted by ryanmckinney

Many people seem to give the thumbs up for blog commenting..

This person seems to disagree

I would like to see some feedback from accomplished SEOers?

Ryan

I like "this person" - excellent article...

[dirtyhair]

I'm leaving a comment on a pr3 blog right now. Don't get me wrong I don't normally do this, I have outsourcers for these types of jobs.

I was running a backlink analysis of one of my old sites and noticed a pr 3 blog comment with no other OBL. Yes, pr 3 with only my link on it. So while looking through I'm just gonna drop another commment with 2 links in it to other sites. Easy.

Not the best use of my time however if you get the chance of course leave a good comment. Make it long, 150 words or so and topical, it will prety much always stick. Do Follow and No Follow you want them both.

Blog commenting is great for variation and also to back up other links you have. Throw it into the mix if you have the time or dollars

[madison_avenue]

It depends on the page you are linking to. I've found if I link to a blatant affiliate site page, then my Blog comment usually gets deleted. Even if my comment is not spam but a thoughtful comment based on the topic being discussed. Often the Blog owner seems to check where your link is going, if it's an affiliate site, the link gets deleted.

[webworm]

Don't confuse and be sure in case of blog commenting .Blog commenting is one of my and many others marketer's favorite technique that is very useful for the link building.I hope this technique will be effective till this business exists.

[Tom Albas]

I prefer Blog commenting but manual blog commenting not automation commenting

[jamrk2000]

Yes, that's a part of organic SEO unless your post are not relevant to readers.