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Does Google ignore/dislike links in blog comments?

by Wintermute
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I stumbled upon Google Knol a few minutes ago (never heard of it before) and I somehow ended up on a page that was a guideline for commenting on pages and blogs. It said that "promoting your website in blog comments will not get you anywhere with Google, or any other search engine...".

Does this mean Google is ignoring links in comment sections?
#blog #comments #google #ignore #ignore or dislike #links
  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    I made a video recently showing how I ranked on 1st page for keywork with 18,000 exact searches, just by using a few blog comments.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi Wintermute,

      While Knol is a Google property, the content can be created by anybody, including people who have no idea of what they are talking about.

      As with most things, how well a technique works depends a great deal on how well it's executed. You certainly can benefit from blog comments when you are an active contributor and don't spam the comments. It's up to the blog moderator to allow your comments to be visible or not.

      That article was probably trying to point out that most bloggers don't allow blatant promotion in their comments section and will delete all such posts. To discourage spamming most, but not all, blogs add the "nofollow" attribute to links within the comments section. Not all search engines recognize the "nofollow" attribute so you still get some SE benefit from these backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
    Believe what you test. not what some blog posts.

    Originally Posted by Wintermute View Post

    I stumbled upon Google Knol a few minutes ago (never heard of it before) and I somehow ended up on a page that was a guideline for commenting on pages and blogs. It said that "promoting your website in blog comments will not get you anywhere with Google, or any other search engine...".

    Does this mean Google is ignoring links in comment sections?
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    • Profile picture of the author tommen
      Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

      Believe what you test. not what some blog posts.
      Good point! There are as many opinions as there are marketers online.
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  • Profile picture of the author maesil
    You won't know until you try it out on your own blog or website. Personally I think any post with a link to a website with good search engine rankings will help boost your own rank higher. But that doesn't mean that someone who posts no links is useless. What you don't want is someone posting a link about UFOs on your blog about dog food reviews.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wintermute
    Good points, and I forgot that not all SE's agree with nofollow tag.
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    • Profile picture of the author Joshua.E1
      the comments that you made on the blogs are a nofollow, as in the past a lot spammers (now still a lot) will just comment without sharing or adding in value to the blog post.

      So that is why, all the blogs platform for comments are nofollow.

      Now is not a matter of fact that they dislike, they simply ignore it completely. Anyway this is a better solution for all Internet marketers, the best man/woman wins.
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  • Profile picture of the author getreffs
    Blog commenting is still very effective for link building.
    Google will never let you down for your struggle
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    I get traffic from blog comments all the time. So I don't really care if Google does or doesn't like them because people use them.

    But the fact of the matter is this: even though most comments will be nofollowed, Google does not ignore the links. Who knows the value they assign them, but they do not ignore them. It wouldn't make sense. Social Links are a big deal and part of the blogshere... they get indexed because the pages they are on are getting indexed.

    Google is just software, and it will never be perfect.
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  • Profile picture of the author juggernautbitch
    Blog commenting is extremely effective even in highly competitive niches.
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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    It works. Just don't spam. Play nice and we can all share the toys. Play naughty and momma Google will take all our trucks away.
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