Commenting SEO link-building Strategy

by hybrid43

Posted: 13 years ago 17 replies

Hi, all

I'm a little bit confused about Commenting as linkbuilding strategy.

When you comment on the blog, the best way seems to be putting an anchor-text in the body of the comment linking it to a particular site. This way you get to target a particular keyword you want as an anchor text. Unfortunately, most blogs I've tried, consider this spam and quickly delete it off the blog. So it hasn't yielded much backlinks for the effort I put in.

The more common and less effective way seems to be putting a link under your name. Most blogs give you the option of entering your website as you comment. when submitted, your website link gets included with your name as the anchor text. You do get your link in there, but Unfortunately the anchor text is "John", "sally", "Davis" or something similar. You could try putting the keyword in the name field. But again, those comments gets quickly deleted. Is a link under your name really help with SEO even though you cannot target a particular keyword?

I'm sure I'm missing something her. If anyone can set me straight, please reply.

thank you.

#commenting #linkbuilding #seo #strategy

stopper 13 years ago

thank you for voicing the same concern Ive had for sometime now. I tried to leave a link on my comment but I was not allowed to. I hope and wait as you are to get some leads
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BenJackson 13 years ago

Hey guys,

I've had a lot of success with blog commenting, I outlined a strategy I've developed in full detail you read here: Blog Commenting | SEO Discovery

Basically, the idea is to target high PR, keywordLuv sites first. This means you will be getting "dofollow" links that pass PageRank and relevance b/c they allow you to use your keyword AND automatically link to your most recent blog post (2 links for one comment). It's helped me increase my rankings personally, and I often have my VAs follow this strategy to build links for me as well.

Hope this helps
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JSProjects

13 years ago

Have you tried mixing up your anchor text a bit? Instead of just your name, or just your keywords, try a combination of both.

For example, "John @ Bug Spray Reviews," or "John from Bug Spray Reviews," etc. This usually works pretty well. Just make sure your comment is actually on-topic and well thought-out.

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hybrid43

13 years ago

Originally Posted by JSProjects

Unfortunately, I haven't found a high page rank blog that allows that. If you know any please let me know.

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Spyder77

13 years ago

Originally Posted by JSProjects

This is what I do. I also avoid trying to stuff a keyword in there, which some try and include in their comment (and which I think is a mistake, unless its done in a way where it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb).

I mix in some No Follow backlinks as well, since it makes it more organic looking to G than if I had nothing but Do Follow backlinks. Using Do Follow only may not be a penalty, but nobody knows what G will decide to penalize for tomorrow, only that they're very clear in their guidelines (and really stress) the importance of things being organic and not artificial, so I play it safe by keeping to practices that are, or at appear, entirely organic.

I do use a keyword, but only in the sense that my site URLs themselves are exact matches on a secondary keyword for each site (I only link back to one site or the other though, and never both on the same blog). That's the only keyword I use: the URL to whichever site I'm back-linking to.

-Spyder

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DavidG 13 years ago

Excellent question.

Simple answer: Yes.

Most Blogs I have ran into don't allow you at all to post website URL's into comment boxes unless it's to refer and actually comment a concern. Yes it does give you good SERP and yes it does give you a Backlink. Don't worry much about dofollow vs no follow. I have tested many sites, especially when I make 1 site and add backlinks that are only no follow which then lead to a page 1 rank #5.

regZ
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simonbuzz Banned 13 years ago

Let me tell you something I have also seen lot's of sites that don't allow url but every time I managed to get a link from their, because they liked my comment...
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simonbuzz Banned 13 years ago

Add value to your comment then you will have 90% to get your comment approved.....
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markrob008 13 years ago

Use the keyword as your name although it look like very spammy but it is very effective.
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DIGITALCHAMELEON 13 years ago

Why don't look for an auto approved blogs there you can include anchor text no matter how many you want.
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- hybrid43 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by DIGITALCHAMELEON
  
  Why don't look for an auto approved blogs there you can include anchor text no matter how many you want.
  
  Is there list of Auto Approved blogs? What is the likely hood that the auto approved blogs are very low in page rank. I'm doing this on my own and I need to focus on efficiency.
  
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designabove 13 years ago

Hi I am Design Above and as you all know that link building is that strategy which help in ranking of your site.
as we know that links are still the basic connector, the basic relationship, on the web.
there are many link building tools which can help you for this.
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Justinpage 13 years ago

I think whatever strategy we do, if they consider our comments as "spam" it is still useless. So what I do is I'm just leaving comments that are very relevant to a particular topic with the hope that they will approve my comment together with my anchor text.
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dukerutherford 13 years ago

That's why blog posting is way better than blog commenting..Post updates or post articles on your own blog, than look for relevant blog and make a comment on their posts..
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hybrid43 13 years ago

Does that mean commenting to build links is not a valid strategy any more?
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sonya1990 13 years ago

Link building is a one type of Offpage activities. so, Same strategy of Off-page SEO
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tolkein 13 years ago

2 things to note about blog commenting:

a) if you keep spamming the blogs and get caught by filters like Akismet, your URL will be automatically blocked for all the blogs that use this plugin.

b) there's not much backlink value from commenting on blogs that use Disquss. This is because the comments are hosted on the Disquss server and not the blog itself.
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