Proof that blog commenting is a waste of time?

6 years ago

Well now google works hard to prevent spam and its harder but i think if you make good relevant coments and dont try to spam it can still work

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ryanbiddulph 6 years ago

Commenting works well in the relationship building department, for sure. SEO-wise, not as many benefits but it's all about building your network, at the end of the day.
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MikeFriedman

6 years ago

Originally Posted by adilsweet

let me clear your concepts about blog commenting, Google never had considered links in comment section unless there is a dofollow tag and no one provide a dofollow link in comments.

There is no such thing as a 'dofollow' tag.

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DABK 6 years ago

Blue in the face yet?

Doesn't matter, someone's gonna think there is such a tag anyway. Me, I got tired of saying it.

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

There is no such thing as a 'dofollow' tag.
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AffPub

6 years ago

google is never ignoring URLs in the comment section

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surfer30

6 years ago

Blog commenting still works. Once Your focus is to provide much value. There is a specific strategy Nail Patel has told about to write an effective comment and in email section you write your own blog. it works

Don't use spam. focus on adding value

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anexplore

6 years ago

Originally Posted by surfer30

Blog commenting still works. Once Your focus is to provide much value. There is a specific strategy Nail Patel has told about to write an effective comment and in email section you write your own blog. it works

Don't use spam. focus on adding value

What do you mean by that?

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surfer30

6 years ago

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When You write a Good Comment. Instead of writing Your email address. You Put it like this
marklind@ passiveincome.com

People start reading your comment and also check your blog

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yukon

Banned 6 years ago

Originally Posted by surfer30

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When You write a Good Comment. Instead of writing Your email address. You Put it like this
marklind@ passiveincome.com

People start reading your comment and also check your blog

Nothing wrong with that but it's not SEO, it's direct traffic.

This is an SEO thread.

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paulgl

6 years ago

Blog commenting might have worked for a trickle of traffic, but never for blog commenting.

Blog comments are spam. All of them. End of story.

Anyone who thinks they are not, is insane.

If you are filling blog comments with spam, you are a fool.

If you are blog commenting, trying to get google to crawl such an idiotic place for your url, forget it.

However, on a similar note, the facebook comment plugin on pages can be golden if abused right.

Google does not see them, and the traffic could be amazing. If done right, on the right websites, on the right articles. Nothing to do with google.

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Benjamin Ehinger

6 years ago

Blog commenting still works. It's not always just about Google either. About 20% of my traffic comes from blog commenting with links, usually my name is linked.

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ryanbiddulph 6 years ago

You practice what you preach Benjamin I guess I would be some of that 20% of the traffic too.
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Clint Butler

6 years ago

Google is crawling content in the Facebook comments plugin.

If you want proof, go to this site: http://www.pagemodo.com/blog/seo-tip...ook-fan-pages/

select any of the text in the comments, for this example I already did it for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22T...hrome&ie=UTF-8

Not all blog comments are spam, its the way you are using them that makes them that way. Which is why I would add to your overall comments and say, spamming blog comments is a waste of time. But actually making real comments on real sites where the op engages is actually very valuable for several reasons, including link building.

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paulgl

6 years ago

Originally Posted by Clint Butler

Google is crawling content in the Facebook comments plugin.

blah blah blah

I see no proof of any fb comment plugin. I see nothing remotely resembling that.

If you think blog comments cannot be spam, you are living in 2003.

There is no content in blog commenting. If there is, then the content is on your page, mucking up your page. So, if blog comments are adding value, content, etc., then you are constantly allowing people to muck up your page. Why on earth would I want other people mucking up MY GREAT content with their crapola?

I cannot believe that people are still blog commenting for seo. That's like saying you are using dial up and enjoying the web.

Blog commenting for seo is an oxymoron. Emphasis on moron.

The tip off? You talk about wikipedia links contributing to seo. Man are you imagining dragons.

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yukon

Banned 6 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

I see no proof of any fb comment plugin. I see nothing remotely resembling that.

If you think blog comments cannot be spam, you are living in 2003.

There is no content in blog commenting.

I know, I looked at his page. Doesn't even have comments and his Google search in double quotes was from the top of the page/content.

I have no idea what he was trying to prove. I'll assume the link isn't self promoting spam.

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Clint Butler

6 years ago

The purpose of the quotes is to trigger an exact match search.

The comment on the pagemoto from "The Soul Explorer" was the string of text that I used to show that content is being crawled.

Another example, same site, comment from "Blog Plus Tweet" has this string of text:

"It seems that Facebook Pages are very much like websites. So you should do all the same things to draw traffic to them such as targeting certain keywords"

A Google search for that exact string of text in quotes brings up the pagemodo site.

A "find" search of the content shows that string of text is nowhere in the original post.

https://www.google.com/search?num=30....0.J4OGAMP9cc8

Thus showing that Facebook comments are indeed getting read by Google.

I'm not here to pick a fight, this is clearly your world, my only point was the blog comments are not all spam.

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yukon

Banned 6 years ago

Originally Posted by Clint Butler

The purpose of the quotes is to trigger an exact match search.

The comment on the pagemoto from "The Soul Explorer" was the string of text that I used to show that content is being crawled.

Another example, same site, comment from "Blog Plus Tweet" has this string of text:

"It seems that Facebook Pages are very much like websites. So you should do all the same things to draw traffic to them such as targeting certain keywords"

A Google search for that exact string of text in quotes brings up the pagemodo site.

A "find" search of the content shows that string of text is nowhere in the original post.

https://www.google.com/search?num=30....0.J4OGAMP9cc8

Thus showing that Facebook comments are indeed getting read by Google.

I'm not here to pick a fight, this is clearly your world, my only point was the blog comments are not all spam.

No.

What you're looking at is plain text in an iframe of an HTML page for the Facebook API.

View the source code for the URL below, the URL on your pagemodo website example. The URL below is the iframe URL for the comment section on the pagemodo page. Replace hxxp with http on the URL.

Keep in mind this thread is about SEO backlinks, not nofollow backlinks in external iframes that don't rank pages. All of those backlinks in the pagemodo comments point directly to Facebook (hxxps://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...), not any self hosted money sites.

hxxps://www.facebook.com/plugins/feedback.php?api_key=259061417471627&channel_url=h ttp://staticxx.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/r/XBwzv5Yrm_1.js?version=42#cb=f2c0ab2fdd38b8c&domai n=www.pagemodo.com&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pagemod o.com%2Ff10701dbcacfefc&relation=parent.parent&hre f=http://www.pagemodo.com/blog/seo-tips-facebook-fan-pages/&locale=en_US&numposts=5&publish_feed=true&sdk=joe y&version=v2.5&width=638

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ryanbiddulph

6 years ago

OK buckle in Kula LOL...and everybody else

Through blog commenting, I:

- spoke about blogging at NYU
- landed a freelance client who had me author/ghostwrite a best selling eBook
- appeared on Virgin, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fox News
- appeared on 1000 plus blogs
- built a lion's share of my blog traffic and profits, before my guest posting campaign of the past 3 months
- received 2 tweets from a NY Times best selling author, of 2 of my eBook releases

OK I could be here for hours. No joke.

But I gotta get some sleep eventually

Effective, valuable blog commenting, involving 2-4 paragraphs of helpful discussion, personalizing the comment, is an immensely powerful way to build friendships with power brokers, said friendships opening profitable doors for you.

Spam blog commenting does not work at all.

Effective blog commenting helped build my blog and brand to levels I could not have foreseen.

That's my comment, on blog commenting.

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ryanbiddulph

6 years ago

I do notice when I check a Google News search for my name, articles where I published thoughtful comments sometimes pop up in the results. I know most bloggers make comments No Follow but some Do Follow must be crawling around out there.

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yukon

Banned 6 years ago

This isn't a Scooby-Doo mystery.

If the link is nofollow it's useless for SEO.

Yes, followed comment links can rank pages in 2017 (today), assuming the backlink page URL has it's own followed link profile from authority pages.

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Clint Butler 6 years ago

Man you guys need to get off the cool-aid you're drinking.

Nofollow links matter for SEO and are part of a natural link profile.

If you want to test if nofollows matter just put a backlink on a YouTube video description, that's nofollow and I've ranked pages with just that link.

Let's look at a practical case. A link from Wikipedia is more relevant as to traffic and thus more important for SEO even if the link is marked as NoFollow. Some people believe that NoFollow links pass Trust. However, this could also imply that negative Trust could be passed as a spam signal.
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- yukon Banned 6 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Clint Butler
  
  Nofollow links matter for SEO...
  
  Completely wrong.
  
  You didn't rank anything with nofollow links.
  
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aishaaiyana

6 years ago

Of course the Blog commenting is working. There is no doubt about it.

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michaelkoehler92

6 years ago

I do use Blog Commenting but only to diversify my anchor text ratio.

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evilclown

6 years ago

You know you doing right when your competition comes to comment on your blog to drop their link.

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Shirlyn

6 years ago

Ideally, google has nothing to do with the comment section.

If you put your URL there, it will be considered as link to your site but with nofollow reference.

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jamie3000

6 years ago

You might get a little traffic but not much juice from this. Focus on stronger links. Are you sure it's do follow? Most comments are no follow nowadays

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smsabuj007

6 years ago

I don't think blog commenting is a waste of time. Because I already got benefit from blog commenting. I start my Juicer Review site only 1.5 months ago and already getting the result and Google indexing. Hope this will help you out there.

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davidricherd

6 years ago

Not all Blog Commenting sites index the comment section. We have to check the quality of the site before make comments.

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expmrb

6 years ago

Blog Commenting is a waste of time. They provide no-follow links so no help SEO wise. And if you get some referral traffic by putting links into them then you are just lucky.

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sameer92

6 years ago

First you have to check the sites which gives do follow links. This can be checked by an extension i.e. MOZ Bar, it will highlight the links which are do follow as well as external internal etc.
When you find a site which is giving do follow links then you can start make a strategy and plan how you can acquire that do follow link . It can be by means of testimonial, comment, guest poste etc..

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Sekumar

6 years ago

As i know, blog commenting works if at all you provide value in your comment, it should really be on point to solve or answer the question or problem at hand.
All in all you should avoid spamming the post for google to see value in your comment.

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Pdomain

Banned 6 years ago

Blog commenting works, if it is dofollow......

Google doesn't classify blog, forum or other websites....... it sees pages...... depending on the strength of the page, authority, reputation, your link gets value....

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Sekumar 6 years ago

I strongly agree with you Pdomain.
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Marcus Cross

6 years ago

Hard to know what the truth is here. Blog commenting works, no it doesn't, yes it doesn't, no it doesn't, yes it does, no it doesn't.

Either half of your are wrong or all of you are only half right. I'm not quite sure which.

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Kay King

6 years ago

Hard to know what the truth is here.

True - unless you read enough threads here to know who is speaking from experience...and who is only speaking...and even that is a matter of opinion

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Shirlyn

6 years ago

I think, blog commenting is still worth doing. But your every comment should create a value for reader as well as for the bloger.

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Banned 6 years ago

Can you please discuss a little technical things of blog commenting? Like how Google classifies blog commenting, forum posting, social bookmarking, directory submission, wiki links.

I don't think Google classifies links based on these linking methods ......... it sees pages, the strength of a web page, authority of the domain name etc....

If your valuable comment is on a reputed blog, and it is dofollow....... then I don't think Google is not going to give you the credit.

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strangeasangels

6 years ago

most comments have any associated urls default to no-follow. It doesn't work and it's annoying when you manage a blog.

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JosephPMorris

6 years ago

Originally Posted by KulaShaker1

I found an article in a newspaper recently that featured a competitor.
I then commented in the 'comment' section underneath writing a few paragraphs and slipping some example URL's in there including mine.

I did a google search a few days later when it was re-crawled. I searched for my name but google didnt recognise the connection with my URL and the page.

Could it be google is now ignoring mentions/URL's in the comment sections?

Hello, friend
I think this is a wrong news. No, Google doesn't say anything like this.

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KylieSweet

6 years ago

This thread is really interesting because it is proven that there are lots of members here believes that blog commenting is still working today to only show that they are still using this method to spam their links in the comment section.

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cbpayne

6 years ago

Originally Posted by KylieSweet

This thread is really interesting because it is proven that there are lots of members here believes that blog commenting is still working today to only show that they are still using this method to spam their links in the comment section.

Yep; I hope my competitors are doing blog commenting. Its going to make my job so much easier.

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neal patel

6 years ago

blog commenting works for me.! bit time is wasted in blog commenting because 50% sites don't approve comments.

but make filtration work on the sites who are approving comments.

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Zotek11

6 years ago

Relevant backlinks from any SEO method is still important aspect of SEO. It doesn't matter whether it is blog commenting as long as it is relevant to your website Google gives it value.

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strangeasangels 5 years ago

all comment links default to "no follow".... show me one blog where this isn't the case.

No follow gives you ZERO seo benefit. All you do is annoy the hell out of people who are trying to add SEO value through legitimate content.
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SEOptimization@1

6 years ago

Blog commenting works provided you post relevant comments with calculated % of LSI keywords and Main Keywords + Anchor Texts + Naked URLs/Branded Names.

Sincerely,
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DABK

5 years ago

Nah, it's easy. Do a few hundred blog comments, notice what happened to your page for the keywords you were blog-commneting for, draw conclusions.

Long ago, I got to be #4 for 2 keywords using article marketing and blog commenting. Over 600 links to get there.

A few months later, going for the same keywords, with a different site, got to be #4 with 6 backlinks (from related sites).

I concluded that blog-commenting doesn't work... I should have concluded, it ain't worth doing it... because it did work... It just took about 10 times more effort.

That was when Google wasn't so pissed off at the world. Now, it might take 30 times more effort. But, if you're constant, and find the rare(er and rarer) blog that does not add nofollo to your backlinks, you will, eventually, get movement... Question is, do you want to work your ass off to move from 147 to 82 or to move from 187 to 1? Also, how much time you got?

Go for backlinks from pages that have at least a handful of backlinks of their own.

Originally Posted by Marcus Cross

Hard to know what the truth is here. Blog commenting works, no it doesn't, yes it doesn't, no it doesn't, yes it does, no it doesn't.

Either half of your are wrong or all of you are only half right. I'm not quite sure which.

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