About blog commenting

by zonkow
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How much does using a keyword instead of your name in blog comments matter?
Most of the site owners don't like this.
Is it only waste of time, if you don't include your keyword in anchor text?
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  • I do it sometimes. Most of the time I don't. Building links manually this way is, in my humble opinion, a waste of time.
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    • Profile picture of the author keivn2
      Originally Posted by Resale Rights Ninja View Post

      I do it sometimes. Most of the time I don't. Building links manually this way is, in my humble opinion, a waste of time.
      I am not expert, but somehow I'm agree with your point.
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  • Profile picture of the author theebookcavern
    I find good quality comments on relevant blogs with no keywords in the anchor text are a fantastic source of direct traffic. I still get visits to my fitness site from blog comments that I left months ago and these are amongst the most targeted visitors I get on the site. Their time on site and pages per visit are well above average.

    You have to take the time to leave a well thought out, relevant comment that adds to the article or creates a discussion but I think it's well worth taking the time.

    Hope this helps,

    Tom
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  • Profile picture of the author AnythingMarketing
    But Tom, his question is if you use your name or your keyword in the name field...

    I must admit to doing both at times. Have also used my first name - the keyword.

    Like this: Bob-Penguin Toys
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  • Profile picture of the author theebookcavern
    Well the question was "is it a waste of time if you don't include your keyword in the anchor text".

    My answer was that I don't think it's a waste of time because of the direct traffic benefit.

    Tom
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    • Profile picture of the author ralchevd
      Originally Posted by theebookcavern View Post

      Well the question was "is it a waste of time if you don't include your keyword in the anchor text".

      My answer was that I don't think it's a waste of time because of the direct traffic benefit.

      Tom
      1) As quoted, direct traffic is a plus.
      2) You avoid anchor text keyword frequency, which is indicator for non-spam.
      3) You still build a good backlink.

      The above mentioned pros are also supported by 100% comment approval. Otherwise, with anchor text in the name field, your comment may not be approved.

      I hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Craig B
      Originally Posted by Resale Rights Ninja View Post

      Building links manually this way is, in my humble opinion, a waste of time.
      I agree. For one, blog comment links seem to be valued less Post-Panda. Secondly, the vast majority of blogs are nofollow.

      Originally Posted by theebookcavern View Post

      Well the question was "is it a waste of time if you don't include your keyword in the anchor text".

      My answer was that I don't think it's a waste of time because of the direct traffic benefit.

      Tom
      How much direct traffic are we talking here and is it long-term traffic? Moreover, is it worth your time?
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      • Profile picture of the author theebookcavern
        Originally Posted by Craig B View Post

        I agree. For one, blog comment links seem to be valued less Post-Panda. Secondly, the vast majority of blogs are nofollow.

        How much direct traffic are we talking here and is it long-term traffic? Moreover, is it worth your time?
        It's definitely long term traffic. I've got blog comments that I made in 2007 that are still driving traffic to my website today.

        In terms of volume, I've been a little slack with my blog comments recently. Until last Tuesday I hadn't done any blog comments this year. However, I just did a quick tally in Google Analytics and I've been getting about 100 visits a month from blog comments in 2012. This may not sound like a massive number but that's 100 visits a month from blog comments I made between 2007 and 2011.

        In the past, when I've been commenting more consistently, I've had over 2,000 visits a month, just from direct clicks on blog comments. Consistent blog comments probably take between 30 minutes and an hour of my time each day so I'd say it's definitely worth my time.

        Tom
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        • Profile picture of the author Craig B
          Originally Posted by theebookcavern View Post

          It's definitely long term traffic. I've got blog comments that I made in 2007 that are still driving traffic to my website today.

          In terms of volume, I've been a little slack with my blog comments recently. Until last Tuesday I hadn't done any blog comments this year. However, I just did a quick tally in Google Analytics and I've been getting about 100 visits a month from blog comments in 2012. This may not sound like a massive number but that's 100 visits a month from blog comments I made between 2007 and 2011.

          In the past, when I've been commenting more consistently, I've had over 2,000 visits a month, just from direct clicks on blog comments. Consistent blog comments probably take between 30 minutes and an hour of my time each day so I'd say it's definitely worth my time.

          Tom
          Thanks for sharing your stats. As for the case of having 2,000+ visits a month from spending 30 minutes to an hour a day, it would be worth my time too
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      • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
        Originally Posted by Craig B View Post

        I agree. For one, blog comment links seem to be valued less Post-Panda. Secondly, the vast majority of blogs are nofollow.

        How much direct traffic are we talking here and is it long-term traffic? Moreover, is it worth your time?
        What type of comments are we talking about? Thousands of junk comments on spammed auto approve posts? Sure, these have been hit. But quality comments on higher quality blogs are still going strong.

        Yes, most blogs are nofollow. But there are methods to finding quality DoFollow blogs. Platforms, following other comments around, etc. You need a tool to help, though. Doing this manually is pretty much impossible.
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        • Profile picture of the author Craig B
          Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

          What type of comments are we talking about? Thousands of junk comments on spammed auto approve posts? Sure, these have been hit. But quality comments on higher quality blogs are still going strong.

          Yes, most blogs are nofollow. But there are methods to finding quality DoFollow blogs. Platforms, following other comments around, etc. You need a tool to help, though. Doing this manually is pretty much impossible.
          I was talking about blog comments in general. However, some of my sites that focused more on blog commenting (mostly high quality & PR blogs) for backlinks were hit pretty hard when Panda came along. While my sites that focused more on other types of backlinks did better. Also, these sites were based on the same on-page SEO structure. Of course, there are other variables that come into play, as always with SEO.

          Since then I have focused much less on blog commenting. In my opinion (for SEO purposes), I don't really see it worthwhile unless it's automated for second tier and on.
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          • Profile picture of the author simona86
            Thanks for sharing this information and I totally agree with you. Do follow blog commenting can increase number of backlinks to your site or blog. Having do follow blog can gain more visitors day by day and also gain your search engine ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author naseem Ul Haq
    If our comments will be approve by the blog owner. Then post will be able to generate back link other wise our comment goes spam. I am right or wrong anybody give me advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author naseem Ul Haq
    I am a web designer, but I want to gain blog commenting knowledge. please guide me.
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  • Profile picture of the author naseem Ul Haq
    Blog commenting are beneficial or not......If beneficial please explain me why?
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    • Profile picture of the author zharfan
      Originally Posted by naseem Ul Haq View Post

      Blog commenting are beneficial or not......If beneficial please explain me why?
      blog commenting is very good especially if you do it manually, because you can make relationship with blog owner
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      • Profile picture of the author naseem Ul Haq
        how can we post successful blog comment. please guide me.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jack Samurai
          Originally Posted by naseem Ul Haq View Post

          how can we post successful blog comment. please guide me.
          There are number of informative blog sites are available that can done comment without any moderation.
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          • Profile picture of the author carlhenson
            Blog commenting be it relevant or not for as long as it has a high PR, do follow and has low out bound links can help you improve the keyword that you are trying to rank.

            Carl
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  • Profile picture of the author naseem Ul Haq
    Any one guide me.. how can we post successful blog comment...
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    Little inpatient there Naseem?
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Blog commenting is definitely not a waste of time if you do it right.

    There are plenty of blog owners who approve QUALITY comments, even if you're using a variation of your anchor text. (For example, "Rick From Gardening Supplies")

    If anchor text is a big requirement, look for KeywordLuv / CommentLuv blogs. Blogs with these plugins generally encourage names with anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author cassydave99
    yeah if you don't use link in your anchor text than blog commenting is useless for you.also there is some question about follow or no follow link.
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    • Profile picture of the author apzzz
      Wow, it makes me to think twice to do blog commenting now, thanks for the info.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lanx
    i set low obl and above 2 pr rules then let nhseo go, computer is always on anyway. (my vps are doing other intensive things)
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  • Profile picture of the author puneetas3
    Man who thinks manual comments are a waste of time must be living with too easy niches. With my sites, after I get all the Senukex blast, pr, blog comment blah blah etc for a keyword, I just go to Google and search for my keyword. Then I stumble through the first 3 pages of results to find sites/blogs where comment opportunities are available.

    You can see from previous comments whether the admin allow keywords or not in name and make a comment accordingly. there is nothing wrong in putting your name as well in it (after Google looking for more anchor links variety- its a good thing to do). This does help on very competitive niches to get that little advantage after your blast. I usually make 5 comments for a single keyword and wait to see the rank updates.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by puneetas3 View Post

      Man who thinks manual comments are a waste of time must be living with too easy niches. With my sites, after I get all the Senukex blast, pr, blog comment blah blah etc for a keyword, I just go to Google and search for my keyword. Then I stumble through the first 3 pages of results to find sites/blogs where comment opportunities are available.

      You can see from previous comments whether the admin allow keywords or not in name and make a comment accordingly. there is nothing wrong in putting your name as well in it (after Google looking for more anchor links variety- its a good thing to do). This does help on very competitive niches to get that little advantage after your blast. I usually make 5 comments for a single keyword and wait to see the rank updates.
      You can REALLY ramp this up with Scrapebox.

      You can search for thousands of niche related keywords at once, sort the results by PR, etc. I'll do this then run a PR check and save the blogs that are PR2 or higher.

      If you run a "site:domain" check on your results and set it to search for results within the past 30 days you can find blogs that are active & updated. Then just grab their inner pages, use the blog analyzer to see which are open for comments, run PR checks on the posts, etc.

      You can build a pretty good collection of active / moderated blogs with Scrapebox with a little bit of time and effort.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarcusHichens
    How do you guys find dofollow blogs in your niche
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  • Profile picture of the author esdavis
    A few good tips in here. Concentrating on moving towards quality content - your blog comments, your site content, article content, etc. - is a solid way to protect yourself from Google's authoritarian methods for "protecting their user experience."

    I'm really coming to believe that rather than trying to game their system as they get more aggressive, we should learn what they want and learn to "play *their* game."

    Think of it as a sales technique with Google the customer. You want rankings, then you sell Google on what you have to offer. What does the Google customer want? They want good content to sell to their customers/users.

    Online marketing - with automation and loopholes - has been a very inexpensive form of doing business compared to what brick and mortar businesses have to do to survive in the "real world." It feels like Google is starting to force the "real world" on marketers.

    Will it cost more in dollars (more outsourcing help to keep up sites) or time (your time to do it according to Google rules) to market online? Yes, most likely. But one big benefit is that you aren't putting your assets at risk anywhere near as much.

    So it takes longer to become a big-dog empire of sites owner? Yes. But I believe we'll end up with a portfolio of assets that has true long-term value because you don't have to worry about the search engines attacking your sites in force.
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  • Profile picture of the author wushanie
    It is not a good idea. Most of them may be removed.
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  • Profile picture of the author uoftenwinny
    Include a keyword in the title, it's better for searching.
    Comment also can help you to get traffic.
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  • i usualy use my keyword as the name
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  • Profile picture of the author SalAG
    I don't think it's a waste of time if it contributed something.
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    • Profile picture of the author Openxcell Inc
      I think blog commenting is really useful for increasing the backlinks of website and traffics towards the website.It is really beneficial for gaining of ranking of keywords also.
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  • Profile picture of the author dodly
    Blog commenting are beneficial if it approved . check my signature
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  • Profile picture of the author natashajane
    Blog commenting is very authority backlinks method can help you to rank your website rapidly on the first page of search engine but these blog comments links should be from do-follow and high page rank blogs then it will be effective for your web site.
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  • Profile picture of the author zonkow
    is it also a valuable link if I write my name(most bloggers don't allow keywords) instead of a keyword?
    This is what exactly I'm wondering.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by zonkow View Post

      is it also a valuable link if I write my name(most bloggers don't allow keywords) instead of a keyword?
      This is what exactly I'm wondering.
      Have you considered vartiations of your name + keywords. There are plenty of blog owners that allow this if you're leaving quality comments. Though, admittedly, the approval rate is lower. (Unless you're commenting on blogs that encourage this.)
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  • Profile picture of the author hicksdelight
    Don't not post on a relevent post just because it's nofollow, and don't always use your keyword for the domain, mix up the links, make it look more natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author travelerjim
    Great comments, but a quick question. What is the best way to find the best blogs to comment on? For example, if we are in the diet area, how would one most easily go about finding the best blogs for that, with good traffic, comments allowed, etc. I saw the notes on scrapebox and have a license but really want to manually post the comments and stick to a limited number of blogs to do it...
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by travelerjim View Post

      Great comments, but a quick question. What is the best way to find the best blogs to comment on? For example, if we are in the diet area, how would one most easily go about finding the best blogs for that, with good traffic, comments allowed, etc. I saw the notes on scrapebox and have a license but really want to manually post the comments and stick to a limited number of blogs to do it...
      Scrapebox is MUCH more than the fast poster. It would be insane manually looking for blogs to comment on when Scrapebox can help speed up the process immensely.

      With Scrapebox you can search for thousands of keywords at once, check the PR of the results, run them through the blog analyzer to see which posts are open for comments, check the number of outbound links on a post, check their nofollow / dofollow status, etc.

      After a few days I can build a pretty big list of high quality moderated blogs.
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  • Profile picture of the author McCoy
    it's the way of building backlinks or building reputations... i think so..
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  • Profile picture of the author lindasalesglobol
    Blog commenting is one way to build links and to get traffic. You should use a keyword instead of your name in blog comments. Keyword research is, at its core, simply discovering what keyword or keywords that a user types into a Search Engine like Google to find information. Using these discovered keywords in your postings is referred to as search engine optimization or SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author powerofschool
    Still blog commenting is really good method to promote your site and to get backlinks.
    You can get relevant traffic too from those backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author dagnyjbarber
    commenting must be done in proper way related to the post. Otherwise no use.
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  • Profile picture of the author d0de
    It seems like everyone is talking about different things in this thread. I can see an argument for high-quality blog comments to be used to drive traffic, fine. "Hey, this was a really great post, I hadn't thought about Labrador grooming using this type of brush. I wonder if the same type of brush would be good for Poodles? I'll give it a go and write it up on my blog."

    However, it seems like lots of people are talking about blog comments for SEO. If it's possible to find genuinely high-quality blogs with comments which are both moderated and do-follow, that's news to me.

    And are some people suggesting that no-follow blog comments will still confer some type of SEO benefit? How?
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Originally Posted by zonkow View Post

    How much does using a keyword instead of your name in blog comments matter?
    Most of the site owners don't like this.
    Is it only waste of time, if you don't include your keyword in anchor text?
    Wordpress software is no-follow anyhow, so it doesn't matter.

    That said, your success rate will be better if you use your name. I don't approve blog comments that I know are spam.
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    • Blog commenting is a great way to get backlinks and traffic. You can use a keyword instead of your real name, but it is not recommended to do it. First of all, some users who read those comments might perceive you as a spammer. Secondly, this will reduce your chances of getting your comment approved. You should rather focus on finding popular blogs related to your niche and then leave meaningful comments that provide value.
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