Blog commenting question

No they don't HAVE to, but it really makes more sense in most cases. If you are making posts on a blog that is relevant to your page, then you know the folks are at least interested in the topic/niche. If you are posting on blogs that are not relevant to your topic/niche, you may see a much lower click rate, and even if they do click through, they may not stay long enough on your site to see what you really have there.

Most blog posting isn't getting you a huge benefit for backlinks, but Google typically is pretty smart about relevance of links... When I'm blog posting, I'm more interested in the actual direct click through traffic than backlink for my SEO efforts.

Allowing comments can help, but NEVER leave them open. ALWAYS set up commenting so you have to approve them. That way, you just disallow the off topic ones, spam, and porn links, and approve the ones that make sense for your niche/topic/blog posting. Yep, it takes a bit more time, but if you aren't willing to put in the time for the approval process, then don't allow comments, because once the dopes find your blog, you'll have so many spam and porn links you won't recognize the site.

As I mentioned, I'm not in guest commenting for the backlinks as much as the direct clicks, so can't advise you here. However, If you have limited time for guest commenting, you really want to revisit your earlier question about posting on relevant sites...

You can always find someone who is willing to do that work for you for 3$ per hour. That's what I am doing for my clients and very profitable.

Do you really think that the people who own those blogs want your link spam? Are you that desperate for a few clicks? sheesh.

The image of your brand, or your client's brand, is a very important consideration in how you approach blogging or social media. If a clean image is very important, then of course
you have to do more blogging/tweeting/friending ...by hand and with monitoring the replies and posts. (or limit the people who will take over your wall.)

Is it blogcommenting worth now?

You guys are giving me some excellent information and I thank you.

The last part of my post is being overlooked and I think it is important so i will ask it again.

Like most blog commenters I find a do follow blog then I click all the comment links to see which of those are do follow as well. Now assuming most people also do this we would slowly propogate to each-others site and day after day put links on each others site pointing back and forth.

At some point would this not look like some form of link exchange to google? Remember google has no real way to gauge intent unless htey look at the situation manually which I dobt they would do.

High PR Blog commenting can be the fastest way to top10.

yes, the blogs have to be relavant
you wouldn't post stuff about mma gear on a cooking blog for example

It is best if the blog is relevant and better if you use keywords as the anchor text linking back to your site.

More or less, yes. For two main reasons ...

(i) If they're not, the link-juice benefit is almost worthless (contrary to what people "selling backlinks" would like you to imagine, relevance is far more significant than page rank, to this), and ...

(ii) You won't get many accepted and published, anyway, if they're not (other than a few auto-accepted, possibly, but those have no value at all because the value of any backlink to your SEO is in inverse proportion to the number of links on the page, and "auto-acceptance" on blogs, as with article directories, means they're unattended and is just another way of saying "spam-fest"). :p

Very, very good ... and improving further all the time.

"Relevance" is the mainstay of Google's underlying ethos, culture and purpose.

From Google's perspective, "relevance" is simply what the whole thing's about.

Up to you. I certainly don't, on any of mine.

This current thread will interest you.

If you mean "rather than get backlinks from the same sites all the time", then yes: that's of much more limited value.

Just my luck to comment in arrears instead of in advance ...

People saying blog commenting should only be done if on topic are wrong. I've had excellent results from relevant and non-relevant blog comments - the same with articles and other forms of backlinks.

Links do NOT have to be relevant and often provide little advantage to relevant links. Blog on unrelevant sites and you will see what I mean.

From experience I have found that with Blog commenting you can either focus on acquiring backlinks or you can find relevant blogs and develop discussions and interactions to drive traffic over. If you have the time I would recommend contacting relevant blog owners / admins to discuss the option of guest postings on their blogs. That way you can lead the conversation and gain a backlink, while at the same time helping the blog owner by providing them with another article for their blog.

rickfrazier1 was bang on the money with his comments so I'll just say something about this one particular point above.

Google is going through some dramatic changes right now and I imagine that one factor they are interested in is the amount of activity on site. That's why I don't use Google analytics - my stats are my business.

Anyway, comments (provided they aren't spam) will show that there is interest in your site.

Just think about it from Googles point of view for a moment. There's a website sitting out there in cyber space. It gets no tweets, no facebook likes, no comments, but it does get 20 blog comments per day (or however many you do). That's pretty obvious it's an SEO pulling the strings right?

At the moment backlinking alone still works, but Google have already admitted they are crawling the social networks for signs of popularity/value.

So if your site is the kind of site that might generate comments I would strongly recommend you take that option. Plus, the comments will keep adding good keywords and content for the spiders.

And . . . if that's not all.

You prospects will often ask questions via comments:

"which is the best weight loss product for my conditions I've got XYZ"

You then do the research and post a helpful comment with a cloaked link. Your readers are happier, you make a sale and Google gives you extra love.

Sound good?

Jimmy

The more relevant your blogs are the better - but of course the more comments you have even better. I have websites ranking #1 on google for blog comments that are not relevant to the website's niche but it does the trick. Also get .edu comments indexed so you can get ranking and beat your competition.

No! But if you want to experience the best results I highly recommend sticking with relevant blogs. Relevant blogs will be relevant traffic which in turn will have higher conversions for you. From an SEO perspective its no big deal, but if you want conversions and potentially sales, optins, etc I'd stick to relevant traffic.

Again I wouldn't worry about it from an SEO perspective. I'd focus more on relevancy for traffic and conversion sake.

You are concerned about unique content added to your website? Your concerned about additional traffic? Not even! Think about how often this occurs naturally on the web between niches. This won't be a problem at all.

Concentrate on your own blog. Find high PR blogs in your niche that accept pingbacks. Write exceptional posts on your blog so you get those pings coming back. Soon people will start linking to your stuff.

You only have to find the pingback blogs once.

I've done this using the P2 theme, rss and pingbacks so everything is automatic and my sites are ranking because of the backlinks from the pings. Plus, I make a dollar a day from each site in the WP multisite.

Pingbacks work.