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What Happens To 1 or 2 Year Old Backlinks? Help Me Please!

by Fearlesshunter
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Hello,

I was just doing blog commenting on few of high DA websites (with disqus comment box) and found that my old comments are not at all showing as a backlink anymore.

Let it be a forum backlink, blog comment or article, the old links are just disappeared. Can anyone please tell me why? Should I be active in disqus blog commenting or forum posting to keep my backlinks active???

Can I make them active again? If yes, then how?
#backlinks #year
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  • Profile picture of the author Fearlesshunter
    Can anyone please reply?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    If you are leaving blog comments for links, your comments are going to get deleted most of the time. Website owners don't want your spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It doesn't matter, the Disqus text/links are not in the HTML source code of the backlink page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eve Jones
    It is possible that the sites you have commented on or done forum posting are no longer active and so your backlinks are removed.

    You don't need to remain active for disqus comments to be alive.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fearlesshunter
    Yeah, I got it now. Even the sitepoint gurus have mentioned that backlinks are no longer beneficial for ranking. Doing so, will have the chances of getting penalized.

    Only the content matters for now.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Fearlesshunter View Post

      Yeah, I got it now. Even the sitepoint gurus have mentioned that backlinks are no longer beneficial for ranking. Doing so, will have the chances of getting penalized.

      Only the content matters for now.
      If anyone is saying that backlinks are no longer beneficial for ranking, they have zero idea what they are talking about. I would stop listening to anything else they have to share.
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      • Profile picture of the author THEroyseo
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        If anyone is saying that backlinks are no longer beneficial for ranking, they have zero idea what they are talking about. I would stop listening to anything else they have to share.
        Backlinks still work very well indeed and the person who says otherwise is plain wrong.

        However, it's possible to rank without links even in very competitive niches. Google is aiming to stop relying on backlinks to rank website through A.I (rankbrain algorithm). However, they are not there yet.

        In a near or far future, backlinks won't have as much strength if any compared as they do now in SEO. Google will rely mostly on user intent (guessing what the person is searching while typing in the search box) or on user experience (which website offers the best experience to the user). It has already started and yes, backlinks still work very well so I use them!

        Concerning the first question of this thread, using blog post comments as backlinks might work for a link out of many (if you found easily a link opportunity) but avoid using them as a main SEO tool.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by THEroyseo View Post

          Backlinks still work very well indeed and the person who says otherwise is plain wrong.

          However, it's possible to rank without links even in very competitive niches.
          No it is not. That is BS.

          Show me one website ranking at the top of a very competitive SERP with no backlinks.
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            No it is not. That is BS.

            Show me one website ranking at the top of a very competitive SERP with no backlinks.
            the question will only be responded to the same way it always has been

            A) no answer at all
            B) a whole lot of text with no answer
            C) an answer that isn't even the least bit competive.
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        • Profile picture of the author Fearlesshunter
          Originally Posted by THEroyseo View Post


          However, it's possible to rank without links even in very competitive niches. Google is aiming to stop relying on backlinks to rank website through A.I (rankbrain algorithm). However, they are not there yet.

          In a near or far future, backlinks won't have as much strength if any compared as they do now in SEO. Google will rely mostly on user intent (guessing what the person is searching while typing in the search box) or on user experience (which website offers the best experience to the user).
          The SEO gurus says this is happening now! I'm not really sure about that, but they say so. And also I went through the link schemes guidelines - https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/66356?hl=en

          I seriously don't understand how the SEO agencies working when google clearly states that buying/selling, paid guest posting gives negative impact on ranking.
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by Fearlesshunter View Post

            The SEO gurus says this is happening now!.
            Ridiculous. You asked a question on a forum and some people answered. How does that make them "gurus"?


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      • Profile picture of the author Fearlesshunter
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        If anyone is saying that backlinks are no longer beneficial for ranking, they have zero idea what they are talking about. I would stop listening to anything else they have to share.
        Please go through this post.

        https://www.sitepoint.com/community/...-why/297658/12
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by Fearlesshunter View Post

          The post is wrong. Read it. It is stupid.

          Search engines no longer care about how many links you have. They have long since realised that it's much too easy to manipulate that metric - hence they all now have policies which will penalise anyone found creating links with the intention of influencing search results. Search engines are in the business of returning the best pages for any given search term, so quality content is the most important factor.
          If search engines no longer care about links, then why would they bother penalizing people for building links? They are contradicting their own argument.
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  • Profile picture of the author RjMaan
    I think the blog or website owners delete your comments that's why your old back links are disappearing.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnVianny
    Spamming comments for acquiring backlinks is an old "method" which if ever had a success, now it's catchable quite easy and don't work.

    You time has a value.

    So use it for producing good content and outsource the backlinks phase to someone specialized in seo
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  • Profile picture of the author gadislade
    Truly, Most of times they removed your comments from their blog post behind the reason of spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fearlesshunter
    And guys, to be clear, my comments have not been removed by the owners (I have checked almost 90% of them).

    And most of the comments were from similar blogs of DA 40, 46, 50 and 60. But still they don't show in my backlink profile now, weird.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Fearlesshunter View Post

      And guys, to be clear, my comments have not been removed by the owners (I have checked almost 90% of them).

      And most of the comments were from similar blogs of DA 40, 46, 50 and 60. But still they don't show in my backlink profile now, weird.
      Of course they don't show. They don't exist. They were removed.
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    Blog comments rarely work these days.
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    Most commenting systems like Disqus save comments if bloggers deactivate comments or simply trash the system, but in some cases, where comments are not preserved, worry not. Think abundantly. Keep posting genuine comments on forums and top blogs from your niche. Your old and new link juice grows but more than that, you will keep making friends wherever you turn. Fab way to grow your blog and business.
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