blog comments - making sure your comments stick

You are only going to get low quality links this way, rather use the software to find blogs related to your niche and check their PR. I usually get rid of N/A, PR 0 to 1 or 2 blogs and manually comment on the high ranking blogs.

I found that this works better and greatly enhance my ranking than the AA list.

Just my opinion anyway.

John Benjamin

Thank you for sharing John... I do believe in commenting manually and its value.
I just noticed that regardless to what you do, people got less receptive to even a quality comment, than before. I saw a good tool the other month, which was making the comments both, extensive and quite neutral, but I for life do not know what it was.

Using automated software for blog commenting may be cause to detect you as comment spammer by search engine bots. Not a good idea I think.

How safe do you think automatic blog comments are these days? Do you think that getting too many of them could give you an "over-optimization" penalty?

Make manual, relevant posts. Plus if you can get on a major blog in your niche and start commenting on it, it would be good. I'm willing to bet that you will get more response from one main blog than a ton of automated blog comments that might not sound relevant, and that will be perceived as spam.

On my personal opinion i do not buy automated software like auto comment on blog. The main reason is, there is no quality in posting comment.

Another vote here for not using commenting spamming tools. You may get more links but they're usually worthless. Just spend a little time and get good links from valuable blogs instead.

Hi Kronom,

I don’t really suggest automating your comments because that might mark you as a spammer. What I do to ensure that my comment really generates traffic to my site is I usually comment on High PR commentluv enabled websites because I can also put a link there for my latest blog post on my website.

Aside from that, I always want to make sure that my comment is on top of other people’s comments. The way I do that is I use BRIEF firefox addon which notifies me if there is a new blog post created among the different websites that I subscribed to.

I hope this helps,

Nick

Automatic blog posts are usually not approved by moderators. If they appear on the site, tendencies are they'd be deleted in the long run too!

so they won't do you any good too. don't know with you but that's how it appears to me.

Sam roberts
Empower Network

I'd say that a really bad thing with these tools are that they will mass post crappy comments and sooner or/than later your IP will be banned by spam tools and you won't be able to make any comments at all...

be careful!

To the OP

Like many others, my advice is to steer clear of automated comments. And steer clear of manual comments whose only purpose is to get a link.

Here's my direct experience as a blogger who has Do Follow links enabled and Comment Luv.

Every day I get a ton of comments.

The 'auto generated' ones don't get through as I have a couple of plug-ins installed that filter them out.

So only comments made by folks like you and me get through.

Here's how the manual comments posted for a link stand out a mile:

1) They contain a ton of keywords in the 'name' field.
2) There's no gravatar associated with the comment.
3) The comment is often not associated or relevant to with the post
4) The comment often uses words that normal folk wouldn't use - e.g. see this one here - that's obviously been copy and pasted from some kind of spinner:

"Pretty section of content. I just stumbled upon your website and
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Anyway I'll be subscribing to your feeds and even I achievement you access consistently quickly."

5) Often there's a number of gratuitious links embedded in the comment.

All such comments get deleted and marked as spam.

I'd guess that most blog owners do the same too.

Using any kind of automated solution for this is just not going to work.

For one, most bots will be picked up by something like Akismet, and eventually you'll get blacklisted then good look trying to even comment manually after.

Most blog owners are pretty strict due to the level of spam they get so submitting generic fly by comments that could be left on any post just won't cut it.

Ok manually it takes a long time but it's worth it .. you'll get your comments accepted on decent sites then.

I use really generic lines- like "great post-this is exactly the kind of information i was looking for. i will now subscribe"

or, "you are such an expert. i will subscribe now as this has changed my life"

or, "automated crap sucks and the only blogs it sticks on are the autoapprove ones that already have 50,000 blog comments"

As others have said, you're going to have a tough time getting automated comments to stick.

However, if you harvest blogs all related to a certain topic and leave a generic (and properly spun) comment about that topic it should help a little.

For example, you've got a list of 1,000 blog posts about Tom Petty. You can create a fairly broad comment about the artist and it should increase your approval rate over a general comment about the blog itself.

"Tom Petty is amazing. Just picked up his last CD and love it. My favorite track on the album is (whatever)."

You're still not going to get amazing approval rates. But they will be a bit better than if you just leave a "Great post! Thanks!" comment.