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13 years ago

Hey Sam, what you are sayin is definitely correct for most blogs. There are a few you can get away with this with, but it's not worth it to even make a habit. Go with your instinct here and don't add to the body.

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morsh

13 years ago

I think we use our keyword in the usename as anchor text

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13 years ago

Sometimes it's good to be reminded that posts are not the same as ads!

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webcosmo

13 years ago

If you put it in the content, it is spammy; unless its necessary for the content.
I wouldnt recommend doing it.

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Barry Unruh

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Apollo-Articles

Hey all,

Am I correct, thinking its bad practice to include my URL in the body of my blog comments, as well as in the URL box?

I imagine most blogs will show the url if I put it in the URL box, however if I put it in the body and its not highly relevant to my comment, I imagine this will look spammy and is less likely to be accepted.

What do you think?

Sam

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If you select blogs at the very top of the food chain in your niche, write extremely informative comments, and engage the BLOG OWNER...he may just want to link to your site himself...For some reason people who are successful bloggers seem to like to interact with other intelligent bloggers.

You might even discover they wish to have you guest post, or offer to guest post on your site, along with pointing out their guest post to their audience.

I think it is called adding value...

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P.S. But to your original question..don't add a link to the comment body, most of us will just deny your blog comment which means you wasted your time.

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alexanderpoole9

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Barry Unruh

TOP SECRET - DO NOT RELEASE THIS TO ANY OTHER WARRIORS!

If you select blogs at the very top of the food chain in your niche, write extremely informative comments, and engage the BLOG OWNER...he may just want to link to your site himself...For some reason people who are successful bloggers seem to like to interact with other intelligent bloggers.

You might even discover they wish to have you guest post, or offer to guest post on your site, along with pointing out their guest post to their audience.

I think it is called adding value...

Barry

P.S. But to your original question..don't add a link to the comment body, most of us will just deny your blog comment which means you wasted your time.

Where do you put the link? Do you simply make a hyperlink out of the user name?

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Dahlia Valentine 13 years ago

Originally Posted by alexanderpoole9

Where do you put the link? Do you simply make a hyperlink out of the user name?

There's usually a box where you can put the URL. Typical hierarchy:

Name
E-mail
URL
Comment
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faysal969

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Apollo-Articles

Hey all,

Am I correct, thinking its bad practice to include my URL in the body of my blog comments, as well as in the URL box?

I imagine most blogs will show the url if I put it in the URL box, however if I put it in the body and its not highly relevant to my comment, I imagine this will look spammy and is less likely to be accepted.

What do you think?

Sam

Links in body looks spammy. You should use your key word in the name box.

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Christian Little

13 years ago

Never include your URL in your comment, just put it in the URL box. Something I've heard that people do is put their name as "Name - Blog Name", so for me it would appear as: "Chris - Bolt Web Hosting". It doesn't look as spammy and it does get approved usually.

Never put the URL in the comment text itself, as that's the number 1 flag that you're just trying to spam for links.

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Diane S

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Apollo-Articles

Hey all,

Am I correct, thinking its bad practice to include my URL in the body of my blog comments, as well as in the URL box?

What do you think?

Sam

Never be the first one to leave a comment. Let all the previous comments be your guide. If nobody else has done it, then don't try it. If you discover you are at an instant approval blog that allows editing of comments - every blog commentor's dream - then go back and add a link inside your comment. But be sure you are adding value to the blog in case the blog owner decides to look at comments and start manually deleting the spam. You want to be one of the keepers.

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jeannemk

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Diane S

Never be the first one to leave a comment. Let all the previous comments be your guide. If nobody else has done it, then don't try it. If you discover you are at an instant approval blog that allows editing of comments - every blog commentor's dream - then go back and add a link inside your comment. But be sure you are adding value to the blog in case the blog owner decides to look at comments and start manually deleting the spam. You want to be one of the keepers.

You truly got a point in there Maam, if you landed to a page that most commentors are using keywords for their names and get approved, why not try it for yourself too. It's a chance already. Grab it.

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Barry Unruh 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Diane S

Never be the first one to leave a comment. Let all the previous comments be your guide.

I have only one major problem with this statement. If it would say never be the first to leave a comment on a blog, maybe.... If there are a dozen posts with no comments, I absolutely agree with you.

If it is first to leave a comment on a post, I strongly disagree. I would love to be the first to comment on the blog posts of Lynn Terry, Ed Dale, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, etc... It would be ideal to be the first highly informative comment immediately following the post of a leader in your niche.

Barry

P.S. If the blog is really good, and it does not have comments, contact the blog owner instead of trying to leave a comment. They may love to have a responsible person guest post or comment on their blog, but are trying extremely hard to reduce their spam workload.
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Frank Marker

13 years ago

With my own blogs I automatically delete (without bothering to read) any comment where the name is a keyword. So if Easy Car Finance leaves a comment, it will be deleted.

I will also delete any comment that adds no new information and has a link.

When I leave comments myself I have discovered that if I don't hyperlink the link but refer to it as site.com then the link says and people follow it. I have has hundreds of thousands of visitors from commenting on news articles and leaving my link.

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alexanderpoole9

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Frank Marker

With my own blogs I automatically delete (without bothering to read) any comment where the name is a keyword. So if Easy Car Finance leaves a comment, it will be deleted.

I will also delete any comment that adds no new information and has a link.

When I leave comments myself I have discovered that if I don't hyperlink the link but refer to it as site.com then the link says and people follow it. I have has hundreds of thousands of visitors from commenting on news articles and leaving my link.

None of your blog comments have a hyperlink with a keyword in them?

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Michael Shook

13 years ago

When I leave comments ona blog, which I do a lot of, I just put my URL in the URL field and it gets linked to my name.

I do not use a keyword as my name. I went to the blog and took the time to leave a real comment. I want that comment to be approved. I do not leave comments with a link in the body.

Both those tactics are often taught as reliable ways to get links to your site. I have found after a ton of blog commenting using combinations of keyword for name, link in body and link to my name, that link to my name makes the comment tend to be approved.

On my own sites, I usually do not approve either keyword name or link in body.

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jeannemk 13 years ago

I think the best way is to have your real name be linked to the URL in the box, in this way, they will not consider it as spam. Site owner will somehow approve your comment if he wishes to. If you want your keywords to be linked, try doing it on your articles.
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alexanderpoole9

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by JMichaelZ

I have found after a ton of blog commenting using combinations of keyword for name, link in body and link to my name, that link to my name makes the comment tend to be approved.

I was thinking of starting this practice. It seems the most respectful way to blog comment.

You don't overly concern yourself with keywords in your blog comment links? My concern is having an inordinate amount of backlinks coming to my site with just my name.

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Michael Shook

13 years ago

Originally Posted by alexanderpoole9

I was thinking of starting this practice. It seems the most respectful way to blog comment.

You don't overly concern yourself with keywords in your blog comment links? My concern is having an inordinate amount of backlinks coming to my site with just my name.

I don't concern myself at all with having my name linked to my sites. Anchor text is just one of the things that gets counted as far as linking credit goes. its like an added bonus to the fact that the link exists.

For quite a long time, while these things were getting straightened and codified, most people just used naked links to everything. I think that getting a link to your site is good.

One of the problems is that blog commenting is really for communicating, for starting a discussion. It is only for link building for the person who is leaving the comment. The blog owner does not get much out of it.

I have actually had back and forth conversations with a number of folks that I attribute to leaving a decent comment with my name. I do not think I would have gotten that conversation and subsequent linking opportunities if I had originally left something like "Cleveland boat insurance agency" as my name.

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alexanderpoole9

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by JMichaelZ

I don't concern myself at all with having my name linked to my sites. Anchor text is just one of the things that gets counted as far as linking credit goes. its like an added bonus to the fact that the link exists.

For quite a long time, while these things were getting straightened and codified, most people just used naked links to everything. I think that getting a link to your site is good.

One of the problems is that blog commenting is really for communicating, for starting a discussion. It is only for link building for the person who is leaving the comment. The blog owner does not get much out of it.

I have actually had back and forth conversations with a number of folks that I attribute to leaving a decent comment with my name. I do not think I would have gotten that conversation and subsequent linking opportunities if I had originally left something like "Cleveland boat insurance agency" as my name.

Thanks for this perspective.

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VOnline

13 years ago

Put URL in URL field.
Leave a decent intelligent comment for the writer. Don't look spammy and write one sentence type things.

You don't want to get denied by the webmaster.

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cyberws 13 years ago

If you include your URL in your comment, the chances of it being accepted by a moderator are slim and none. This applies to all good blogs, of course. If you post in some spammy blog the link won't do you much - if any - good, anyway.
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BloggingPro

13 years ago

I only use the keyword as my name, which usually links out after a mod approves the comment. Leaving a URL in the body of the comment usually means your just leaving text and not really a link.

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DeborahDera

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Apollo-Articles

Hey all,

Am I correct, thinking its bad practice to include my URL in the body of my blog comments, as well as in the URL box?

I imagine most blogs will show the url if I put it in the URL box, however if I put it in the body and its not highly relevant to my comment, I imagine this will look spammy and is less likely to be accepted.

What do you think?

Sam

You are correct. Search for blogs that use the CommenLuv plug-in. Those will allow you to tailor your guest post name to include your name and an anchor text link so it looks less spammy.

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Barry Unruh

13 years ago

There is one really, REALLY, REALLY big reason to use your name instead of a keyword phrase, too.

Are you trying to gain "Market Recognition" or just get a backlink?

If readers start consistently seeing YOUR NAME as a person leaving quality comments, and offering great advice, soon they will be seeking YOUR NAME to learn what else you have to say.

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alexanderpoole9

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Barry Unruh

There is one really, REALLY, REALLY big reason to use your name instead of a keyword phrase, too.

Are you trying to gain "Market Recognition" or just get a backlink?

If readers start consistently seeing YOUR NAME as a person leaving quality comments, and offering great advice, soon they will be seeking YOUR NAME to learn what else you have to say.

I just want the backlink. I'll try to write thoughtful comments, but the mere act of blog commenting is drudgery. Can't stand doing it. I don't want to mix it up with other blog owners. I'd love visitors to land on my sites, click an ad and leave. So traffic is my goal.

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AdamWagner 13 years ago

On my blog I will normally approve an informative post if the link in the post is anchor text. It is true that URLs standing by themselves under the comment look really spammy and therefore degrade the quality of the site in question. As a blogger I want my sites to look as professional as possible. I don't mind links, just as long as they look professional.
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shuvo

13 years ago

It is really a bad practice.How its looking that somebody is giving you the opportunity to get a god position in search engines but you are committing to harm to him or her?I think we should show some ethics during posting comment.

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ScrapeBoxMarket

13 years ago

Its not like that, you should post the comment which is related to the topic and not spammy comments like " great post " " thanks for the information" etc.
And blog commenting is one of the powerful way to build backlinks.

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Christian Little 13 years ago

Here's an example of one I did today on one of the most popular 'make money online' blogs and it got approved:

Nothing to spammy, and it actually got about 6 clicks after it was approved despite the silliness of the comment lol.
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13 years ago

I am doing blog commenting too and I'm avoid putting live link on the comment its look spammy, I only use name as my anchor text, and only do commenting on the related blog sites.

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Apollo-Articles

13 years ago

Well, I think we've determined no link in the body!

How about to get around the name/keyword issue, we right in them name (if I were say... Allan from warrior forum):

Allan From Warrior Forum

This way we have the name, and the keyword (if it were Warrior forum).

Ensuring we add value in the comment and engage with the OP.

Blog owners, would you approve these comments?

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RossChops

13 years ago

I always leave my name on a blog comment and then write a nice long comment. Most of the time if i put a link in the body of the site then it usually sticks as it is relevant to the topic.

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mrgee

13 years ago

Firstly.. Surely leaving keywords in the name field is just as "spammy" as leaving anchor text link in the comments field?
Secondly if I just leave my URL in the URL field is that then a backlink.
Assuming of course that I leave some constructive comment

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naitrimktg

13 years ago

Best practice is to not even put your keywords in the "Name" field, let alone in the body.

I think I am gonna name my kid SEO and change my last name to "Service" to ensure he doesn't have any problems.

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