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Can you build good traffic by link commenting?

by AlmightyGreg
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I was wondering if it's a plausible way of building traffic to my new site. The reason I ask is, the few times I have actually bothered clicking on a comment to look into the owner's website, I usually just leave really fast. Would it be a good SEO effort?
#build #commenting #good #link #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Michael D Forbes
    It depends. If you leave a relevant comment that provides value to the discussion on a very high traffic blog, and you are linking to a quality site of a similar topic, you might get a decent amount of traffic from it. I would consider it gravy though, and wouldn't make it your entire strategy by any means. Just a piece of the traffic puzzle.

    BTW, many people leave out at least one component of the formula and therefore don't get much, if any, results from the strategy.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Commenting for SEO, no.

      Commenting for traffic, yes. But not the way most IMers would do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Everything Michael above said is true. What you do NOT want to do is count on spam commenting on irrelevent blogs (like the gigs you can buy here or on Fiverr), as sources of traffic.

      One way I use to sell lots of books on Amazon is to make sure I buy every book in my niche,and write a very comprehensive review with a link to my book in the review (I sell the book on Amazon, so the link works). THAt brings in sales every month, and because the reviews get read and commented on, they stay visible to people readfing about the book the other auther is selling. So it does work, but I couldn't live just on that one method.
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      • Profile picture of the author EddieWade
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        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        Everything Michael above said is true. What you do NOT want to do is count on spam commenting on irrelevent blogs (like the gigs you can buy here or on Fiverr), as sources of traffic.

        One way I use to sell lots of books on Amazon is to make sure I buy every book in my niche,and write a very comprehensive review with a link to my book in the review (I sell the book on Amazon, so the link works). THAt brings in sales every month, and because the reviews get read and commented on, they stay visible to people readfing about the book the other auther is selling. So it does work, but I couldn't live just on that one method.
        Thanks for the tips. I am also interested in selling on Amazon, so this really helped me a lot.
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    • Profile picture of the author mlord10
      Originally Posted by Michael D Forbes View Post

      It depends. If you leave a relevant comment that provides value to the discussion on a very high traffic blog, and you are linking to a quality site of a similar topic, you might get a decent amount of traffic from it. I would consider it gravy though, and wouldn't make it your entire strategy by any means. Just a piece of the traffic puzzle.

      BTW, many people leave out at least one component of the formula and therefore don't get much, if any, results from the strategy.
      This pretty much sums it up...if you are going to write "nice post" or "love the blog" then it isn't worth the effort. However, if you have something to add to the conversation, and can be one of the first people to comment on a high-trafficked blog within your niche, then you can certainly get some good traffic.

      Like Michael said, it should only be one component of your strategy, certainly not all of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author shintaiguy
    Hi Greg, this is how Dean Holland first got his blog established. personally I think that if you are responding with relevant informative information or comments then people will naturally want to find out more and come and take a look. If you have informative and entertaining posts then people will stay and look, try to include images, video and infographics if you can, these catch and hold peoples attention.
    As regards SEO all you are getting is a link, the blog owner may or may not approve your comment, things like "Great Post Mate" dont really help anyone. Blog commenting is more of a manual way of driving traffic and if you are going to do it plan a strategy to comment on well trafficed blogs, but only on the newest post.
    SEO is fine but if you use this for traffic you are relying on a very changeable third party and your traffic might be there one day and gone the next. Manual traffic from blog commenting, guest posting etc is totally in your control and can work brilliantly if it is well planned.
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  • Profile picture of the author kochtgr
    Actually blog commenting on popular sites on your niche is one of the most effective ways to get traffic and get noticed by other readers and bloggers, just don't spam...
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    If you want to get really in-depth, search for posts that were created within the past 24 hours. (When searching via Google, click "Show Search Tools," then "Past 24 hours.") Make sure you click the "Discussions" option as well.

    This will show you posts that were indexed within the past 24 hours. So, most likely, they are pretty fresh. If you leave comments on high traffic blogs you can drive some pretty decent traffic to your site, as long as you're leaving legitimate comments. (No, "great post! thanks!" comments.)

    You can use Alexa to get a general idea of how popular the blog is. Or you can look @ the PR. If it's a high PR blog, then (most likely) it's getting decent traffic.
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