How safe are blog comments with "over-optimization" penalty?

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Been researching for some hands off SEO services that will still be safe and somewhat effective (more interested in safe than quick results). I found a great one for article writing at Backlink Banzai Automated Backlink Building - Build Backlinks Naturally Definitely recommend checking it out. Great price, super hands off, and very panda friendly.

Then, thinking about blog comments... What do you guys think of this service? It's a whole year of blog commenting for $37. Obviously, you get what you pay for meaning this is ultra automated, but they actually build links to your whole site and spin the anchor text and do this on a drip system. On one hand, it sounds like a great way to get steady link velocity and diversity. However, I'm still not sure it would be safe enough for a corporate client site which I really don't want a penalty on...

With the "over-optimization" penalty google is supposedly working on, how do you all feel about the safety level of thousands of spammy generic blog comments on unrelated sites? I'm wanting to get out of a BMR penalty, but don't want a new penalty along the way =) It's great that the links are dripped for a year, but 500 blog comments per month still sounds like a lot to me on a client site that has less than 3000 total links. At the end of the year, they might have a huge profile of blog comments and get flagged for unnatural linking like I just got hit with.

Thoughts?
#blog #comments #overoptimization #penalty #safe
  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    When it comes to commenting, volume does not = quality.

    I'd much rather create just a handful of comments on dofollow, PR1+ posts. I know there are services that will manually comment on blogs that meet this criteria. (If you'd rather pay someone to do them for you.)
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  • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
    500 low quality blog comments a month won't benefit you much. For the most part, I would stay away from high volume blog commenting. They are great for indirect linking but don't add much value to your overall link profile. If you want to use blog comments, I suggest sticking to comments of the highest quality. That means high authority pages with low OBL.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    You are after safe over speed, yet you are interested in a service from black hat world?

    Im sure i do not need to tell you that blackhat services like this are mostly all automated (yes, hands off) spam. You would be better off hiring someone to manually build you links.

    If you want a safe and natural approach you should be using a variety of diverse link building methods, not JUST blog comments.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Blog comments have been hinted at by google to
      be spam. Read between the lines. This is 2012
      people. Get a grip. You have to be one sorry
      sap to pay a cent for any blog commenting.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
    That's not to say interacting with your target audience and becoming part of the community on a blog is bad for your site or traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author sodesigns
    That's what I thought. Thanks for the reality check.

    Similarly, what do you guys think of backlinkbanzai.com?

    And speaking of quality blog comments, do you guys have any quality, manual, niche blog commenting services you would recommend?

    thanks~
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  • Profile picture of the author smileverse
    We're out of danger, Until we have some valuable or informative contents in the comments which we have posted in the blogs.
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