Is there a demand for this...

Check this out: http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=blog&x=0&y=0

This should display a bunch of $5 gigs in which people make blog comments. You could get a higher price (though not on fiverr) if you have some specialized knowledge, perspective or authority that you bring to the comment.

comment blogs certainly help to get some extra links back to your website.

Well, there seems to be quite a few sales for blog commenting on Fiverr so there must be a a demand for it.

It's not something that I have used myself so I can't really say.

I understand that you don't want to go through Fiverr for so little pay.

If you want to go through WFH, I think if you make sure that you offered quality comments, you made sure that you only commented on do-follow blogs and you also pinged the url when the comment went live, I think it's something that some people may be interested in. Try to make it as appealing as possible.

I suppose the only way to really know is to try it and see what response you get. It's a valid form of backlinking so I don't see why not.

:-)

This is going to sound really disparaging. With apologies!

Call me a skepchick, but I suspect that there is a demand for this, and the demand is from (largely) ill-informed clients who don't really understand how blog-commenting works with regard to off-page SEO (they only think they do), will have unrealistic expectations, will want to pay very low prices, will think in terms of "numbers of backlinks" and "page-ranks" and so on (:rolleyes and won't be a pleasure to provide services to ... and (here's the real point) just like people who buy $3/$4 articles they won't keep returning for more, not because the service you provide is no good but because (a) the service they want to buy is one that won't really help them much, and (b) many of them will have affiliate marketing businesses which don't, themselves, survive for the long term - and that means you may have to advertise permanently for new clients (just like the people who write $3/$4 articles do), not because the service isn't quite the par excellence model, but because so many of the clients aren't, and don't really know how to use it. This phenomenon and the reality of "building up a business" may be more or less mutually exclusive, I'm afraid.

And that's without considering the entire "comments sticking and being published" problem - and that's a real problem - in relation to payments.

So I'm not at all optimistic, overall. Sorry. Let's hope I'm completely wrong.

There is a demand, but if you want repeat customers and you want to make money with blog commenting for the long run provide good comments for your customers on blogs that have to do with their niche. This is much better than simply using software and getting generic comments all over the place.

Benjamin Ehinger

I'd absolutely say there's a demand for this. Most internet marketers will outsource to odesk.com and use a contractor from the Philippines or India. Some work is quality, some isn't - but the language barrier is the biggest obstacle.

Being able to comment like a genuine american consumer is something that overseas contractors cannot do effectively in my opinion, and I use them for as much as I can. This is the same reason you don't look overseas for a copywriter, you look stateside (or Australia, Canada, Britain of course). And with everyone's wordpress blog and forum being spammed by SEO comments, moderators are becoming more and more selective about what comments they approve.
So being able to understand the article/blog/surrounding context and contribute an intelligent comment is very valuable in my opinion.

To get to the point - yes I think there is demand for this, in fact I'd even be interested in your service. Overseas contractors can be paid $2-$3 due to the exchange rate. If you're stateside I would think you would charge $8 - $12 per hour or above. Or $5-$7 per approved backlink or something.

It may be good as a hobby, anyone making decent wage on this?