Blog commenting - It works! Here's what I've learned...

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I have to be honest - I never really used blog commenting as a link building tactic. I recently started working on an older website that I'm really trying to build up in a tough niche market, and while look at some of my competitors backlinks using Yahoo's Site Explorer tool, I noticed quite a few of them were getting TONS of backlinks from blogs.

So, I visited those same blogs and actually READ the posts and contributed valuable, meaningful comments. A few days later, I see myself on the top commentators list for that blog and have generated over 400+ links back to my site. I keep finding new blogs daily, all with dofollow comments and the "top commentator" plugin. The thing is, while doing this, I have discovered some unique blogs and have started reading them regularly in addition to adding my comments. So, it's a win-win - I keep returning to read posts and offer valuable feedback, they get a return reader and I get some links back to my site.

Since I've noticed that dofollow blogs and the "top commentator" plugin increase readership, I've even added these to my new blog that I've recently started to help increase readership.

Now, you can't just start blasting blogs with comments that are meaningless. That will get you nowhere and often ruin any reputation that you could've built with that site. Here are a few tips I picked up that have helped me gain solid links and be looked upon as a valued contributor to discussions:

- Never use a blatant keyword as your name. I usually input my name and then the keyword I'm targeting (i.e. Dave @ Legit Home Jobs). Doing this gets my keyword in there, but comes across as less spammy and more authoritive.

- ALWAYS POST MEANINGFUL COMMENTS! Take the time to READ the blog post. Offer something more than "hey, that was a great post!" or "thank you for the tips". I usually will try to add some value to the post, give additional tips, or if I disagree with the post, I will explain my reasons why. I also sometimes will reply to others who have a question or will elaborate more on their responses.

- Never post multiple comments and leave, especially on a new blog that you've never posted at before. Comments are timestamped and blog owners can easily see you comment dropping, never to return. I always start with a well rounded comment on a post that I can give the most feedback on. If it's approved, I'll return and post more each day. Plus, on most blogs, once you have a good comment approved, Wordpress has a setting that will automatically approve any commenters who've had a previous comment approved.

- Look for blogs with the "top commentator" plugin. On some blogs, this list will refresh daily, once a week, once a month, once a year or whenever the blog owner decides it's time for a change. Either way, it's a great way to get a lot of backlinks, as this widget is usually on every page of that blog.

I hope you all can use these tips the next time you try to work on blog commenting. Not a bad way to get a lot of link love with minimal work. I can say this is now in my overall link building plan for every site I have.
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  • Some great tips there!

    And yea top commenter is an awesome plugin for the backlink builder. Try to find blogs not commented on much and 3-4 comments will get you that spot for a sitewide link for months and months if not forever.
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    • great work,
      this is very useful tips for blog commenting. Blog commenting is useful for off page recommendations. Back linking gives a major part to improve website rank.
  • Thanks for the tip. I should start reading more blogs
  • This top commentor plugin - how does one go about looking
    for blogs with it?

    I'm an advocate of quality commenting, btw, I've just never
    heard of the plugin and I'd like to know more.
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    • how do you find good blogs to comment on for good backlinks?
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  • hmm, cool. Wasn't aware of the top commenter plugin.

    I was looking around the other day at wordpress commenting (top google results) and wound some pretty cool stuff to do with wordpress commenting on your own blog
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    • I've been commenting on the blog of virtually every guru that's sending me emails and I seem to be getting some traffic.
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  • One problem I found with blog commenting is if the have 'recent comments' in the sidebar then you can gain a couple hundred backlinks very quickly as all of their indexed pages will give you a backlink. But as soon as another five or so people comment and your link drops of the 'recent comments' list then all those backlinks will disappear.

    I don't know how this affects your site in Google if you have backlinks appearing then disappearing. Some sites can be difficult to keep up that spot in the most recent columns list unless you are commenting once or twice a day.
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    • What I most like about blog commenting are the 'extras' you mentioned. That it can be enjoyable reading the posts and contributing to the conversation, and that you can learn a lot too.
    • I think part of this would depend on how often the google spiders are crawling/indexing those pages. Plus I don't know about you but my backlinks take a while to show up (I know they're there just not "visible"). I'm no SEO expert but I think it is in the nature of blogs for the comments and the resulting backlinks to be constantly shifting so I doubt google would frown on these 100s of backlinks disappearing over night.

      As far as posting on top commentor blogs, I think it is a decent enough short term strategy for link building. This is of course assuming that the links are do follow and are not the only element of your backlinking strategy. I think these types of backlinks would be useful for someone who wants to build a microniche site and get it up the SERPS as fast as possible and then sell that site off. Just my two cents.
  • What I don't like about blog commenting is the number of increasing spam posts per minute. This cannot be prevented as I have also tried to stop it but failed. Is there any way to stop this?
  • Blog commenting as an SEO tactic can indeed be very beneficial. You are correct in what you said. You have to read the article and make an insightful comment. Use your actual name as your name. Add value to the page and you will receive link love in return.

    If you do not follow these rules you usually get blacklisted.

    I blacklist spammers daily because once you remove the no-follow attribute, spammers come out of the woodwork like cockroaches. Many are automated. All get their IP's blacklisted.

    About 800 out of every 1000 comments get rejected. Many are sadly pathetic. Real ones are prized. All get responded to.

    Learning something from reading the article is an added benefit...
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    • Exactly. Unfortunately, most people get too excited when they start finding blogs and see the backlinking benefits starting to take shape, so they hit blogs up with tons of comments. Even if they are good comments, you need to find a balance.

      If people would just slow down, take some time to read the post and make a legitimate, thoughtful comment, they would realize how easy it really is.
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    • One of my blogs get about 5 spam comments a day. It got annoying deleting them every day, so I stopped deleting them. I now just change the commenter's URL to point to one of the other sites I own.
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  • I really like this tip. It's one of those small details that can really make a difference.

    Nice post, sir.
  • That is a good news dude, Is there anyway to findout the blogs with top commenter plugin?
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    • No real "easy" way to do it (at least with my method of going about it). I don't just target ANY blog with the plugin, but narrow it down to only those blogs that are in the niches that I'm involved in. Makes more sense that way, too, as I'm not only getting relevant links, but will also pull in traffic from relevant sources.
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    • Amenda, try this. I think it will work

      put this command into the google search engine:

      EXAMPLE:

      site: cooking blogs + "top commentator"

      Type it exactly as you see it, replacing "COOKING" with your keyword, and this should give you search results of blogs you can post to.

      Also, as an added benefit, you can run SEO Quake or another program that gives PAGE RANK to determine which ones actually will give you the best results from Google.

      Hope this helps, and I think I am right!:rolleyes:
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    • Also ensuring the blog you are about to comment on, is not too old maybe a year to a few months old. And allows DoFollow, you can find this by looking at the Page Source (CTRL + U) and then performing a search for DoFollow in Find. This is about the most low-key way to find if the blog is DoFollow or not.

      How to find them, go through Google... there's nothing black hat about using Google to find DoFollow links(after all it was Google that created this..).

      The other plug-ins I'm testing at the moment is Commentluv and Disque seems to be great too.
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  • These are great tips! Be careful not to post the same things over and over, doing so will hinder your sites backlink performance, not to mention make one look incompetent! Very good help for those who have never considered blogging!!

    Megan Elizabeth
  • One thing i love about blog commenting is, you can get all the links the blog you comment on has. This will enable you to quickly build your link in the most preferred way without the search engine raising an eye brow.
  • bunk bed "Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage." - Google Search

    use the link above to get a list of related blogs where you can leave a comment with your link using any anchor text you like by use of KeywordLuv plugin.

    Just replace "bunk bed" (which is at the beggining of the search query) with a keyword relevant to your site. I find that brand names work quite well.

    Just make sure in the name field you put your "name @ KEYWORD"

    the keyword you enter will be used as the anchor text for the url you give.
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  • Thanks for the tips. They are a good reminder to me. I have been using this method for backlinks among other reasons. But recently I have not been using it. I will have to do it again. You have added some new insights to me.
  • Just goes to prove that giving value and over delivering produces results in all arenas of IM traffic building.

    Well done

    Nigel
  • Dofollow Blog Commenting is a nice way to improve SERP within a very short time. I use following phrase to find dofollow blogs.
    site:"powered by drupal"
    site:add comment

    Use many combinations and get more backlinks.

    Thanks
    Rukshan
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    • true it does work, but one should do research on blogging before they attempt at doing , so as not to make to many mistakes
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    • Without sounding harsh, you've got to go out and do the work. I did a lot of legwork to find high quality blogs to comment and participate on daily. Plus, the blogs I comment on may not even be relevant to your niche.

      Just follow the methods I listed in my original post and I'm sure you'll have no problems finding quality blogs to comment on. It's really not that hard to find them once you start digging in.

      You can feel free to checkout my blog below (first link in my sig). I've made it a dofollow blog with the top commentator plugin. I also use the CommentLuv plugin for people to link back to a related blogpost on their own blog as well. BUT - even though this is a new blog, I highly monitor ALL comments. Irrelevant comments are stuck on a blacklist.
  • good tip I just used the Yahoo's Site Explorer tool to find blogs to comment on links should show tommorrow. I would like to find blogs that have dofollow though so I know I am getting links for sure will reasearch tommorrow. good tip
  • Thanks for the tips . Thats why I Look always for blog Traffic. I am getting 200+ Visitors per day from Blogs Only.
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    • Dennis, you are technically correct. I have seen some supposed SEO experts advocate adding a 'dofollow' tag, even though it has null meaning.

      You might find some following bad advice, but looking for the absence of the 'nofollow' tag is more productive...

      You are kidding, right? :rolleyes:
  • Great info! :-)

    Slightly offtopic question on do follow vs no follow:

    Doesn't "no follow" mean that the SE won't juice up your pagerank through the site your link is on, but allow your links to stay relevant in terms of linkbuilding purposes? Or is it absolutely essential to only perform linkbuilding on dofollow blogs? From the way I understood it, dofollow/nofollow only referred to the spiders applying the original sites "cosignment" of the content within the site the link leads to.

    Thus, my hypothesis is that as long as you leave a quality response, and the blog owners see this, your links will be allowed and with time you'll still have great backlinks whether the blogs use dofollow or not.
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    • That is the other way, but some are still stuck on IE (Internet Exploder) and won't go to FireFox so I didn't suggest that. And with the recent update to Wordpress (since that's the most common website template) it may have been taken off.

      I have programs that tell me what is DoFollow and what isn't, I do find thou that even the NoFollows get listed though.. So really not sure what to believe these days and I'm sure Google doesn't either.

      Also I find that getting better links from higher Page Rank like PR 5 or 4 even will help you having a few hundred, but I find tons of websites have like a 1,000 links from a single PR0 which helps a bit but it would take years to perform.
  • Finally a blog commenting tip that doesn't involve SPAM. Thank you!
  • Great post

    I think this is so important - can build relationships with blog owners as well, which could be profitable for partnerships in the future.
  • Good stuff, bhuff. I am getting away from the automatic commenting. It just ends up hurting everyone in the long run. The fact is there aint no shortcuts for the most part in IM.

    And what you present in this Post is something that helps not just the IMer but the internet in general. That is well thought out comments that contribute toward the topic at hand. It takes time but is so worth it.

    I like it !!
  • It really works. However, when more and more people find it helpful to create backlinks, then those DoFollow blogs will be filled with spam comments.
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    • I see what you're saying, but I think that commenting will stick around despite all of that. With the different tools that are out there, it's becoming easier to weed out blatant spammers and blacklist them before they have a chance to wreck any havoc. In my eyes, blogs really can't survive much without the user interaction. It plays a huge part, especially if you've been following a certain blog or person for so long and they take the time out to reply to one of your comments. Plus, it rewards those who use it the right way.
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    • Well the only ones to blame are Google for creating this mess we call "Backlinks". I know I'll get some back lash from the Google Worshipers. But the more I find out how evil G! is I am looking to the other articles written on WF that say we should be listing with Google but then looking for other traffic sources to hedge our bets.

      If Google does another Mayday fiasco like they did this year who knows where I businesses will be then? Down the G-toilet!
    • I just found out you get no link if the blog has nofollow in it and the blogs I have been posting to have it. I love contributing but my goal right now is to build links. though I will still post to these blogs is there any other benefit to posting to them?
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    • your tips are too good and apreciated........thanx for the sharing online
  • I have been using blog commenting for a while, it works well for both backlinking and traffic generation if you are giving valuable content.
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    • I just did some research and I found out (at least I think I am correct. please correct me if I'm wrong), the factory setting for Wordpress is 'NoFollow' on comments.

      I just installed a dofollow plugin on my blog, (which by the way is http://www.mikebrooksonline.com in case anyone wants to comment on it )

      If this is true, and I read it on Google so it must be true, then many blogs are nofollow and people don't even realize it. If so, that makes it difficult.

      By the way, I do have other blogs that get loads of spam comments every day. If you go into your dashboard settings then click on discussion, you can select to have all comments require moderation. Then you get emails with the comments and can delete the 95% of them that are spam without having them show up on your blog.

      If any other blog owners would like to swap comments, PM me with your blog. And I don't mean fake posts just for SEO. Lets just help each other out. We each post meaningful comments to each others blogs. Any interest?
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    • Great post huff. I like those posts that just share great knowledge like that.
  • Yes, this still does work. The Top Commenter idea is gold.
  • I like the idea of putting your keyword after your name. Not sure how effective that will be as anchor text but it might work.

    -Simon
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    • Works amazing if the blog has the KeywordLuv plugin, which uses anything after the @ symbol as anchor text
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  • Here is what you should enter into google:
    and use the mozilla firefox addon Nodofollow.
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  • blog commenting is indeed effective. And another thing worth realizing is that you should put comments on your OWN blogs too - to the search engines, a blog without comments is... not that interesting. Comments also increase the frequency with which spiders return to check your pages.
  • For getting good back links go for do follow blogs.There are still some good do follow blogs where you can get high page rank backlinks. The hard part is to find them.Keep in mind that relevancy is the key and always make useful and relevant comments
  • Sometimes I get comments like "Nice article..." and it makes me question whether 1) It's a legitimate comment, 2) The person even bothered to read the entire article 3) Is that the kind of response I'm looking for (NLP: the meaning of your communications is the results you get - so it could be time for self-reflection too)
  • thx for your tips

    but it costs a lot of time,especially for some niches,it is really hard to find enough relevant blog posts to leave a comment.
  • Great tips and I learned it.
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  • Fantastic post that comes from the right place - advocates genuine engagement and mutually beneficial results for all parties. Blogging code to live by imo!
  • thanks for the tips..can you help me to find some dofollow blogs
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    • Read through this entire thread. If you actually read them, the methods are screaming at you.
  • Great tips, especially the top commentator. I've been pushing the idea of actually reading blog posts and leaving meaningful comments for some time now. I even did a post about it on my blog. The exact post got hit with a bunch of spam as usual which sort of annoyed me. So all of those websites are now blocked from my blog
  • Finding niche blogs and really getting involved in the topic can spark off great conversations too
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    • I recently launched my own site with my own companies real products (not e-based) and the spammers are driving me nuts! no, I take that back, they are downright pissing me off! I even tried emailing one in particular to ask them to quit spamming me and the email isn't even legitimate! The worst offenders are IM people selling Auto Traffic Avalanche, Mobile Monopoly and Mobile Marketing, just to name a few. As a somewhat beginner internet marketer I would never buy those products simply for the way they are marketed.

      I also do IM but will never spam legit websites with nonsensical posts. Some must be 'spun' or else English is most definitely not their first language. Internet marketers should think, 'hmm, will pissing off a potential buyer actually get them to buy my product or will they tell people it is just a scammy product?' Do penis enhancers really have anything to do with say a product like crockpots, religious blogs, best childrens toys, etc.. (pick any unrelated topic of choice)?

      Please quite spamming non relevant comments to bloggers, they are trying to make a buck and you are taking up their valuable time when they have to go through and delete all the IM stuff. Just gives all internet marketing programs a bad name, in my opinion.
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  • Thank you for this valuable information, and thank you for contributing selflessly to the Warrior Forum.
  • I also get to use blog commenting on my SEO strategies because it helps me a lot creating backlinks with the do follow blogs that i've read, its not only posting but you comment something informative to others.
  • I wouldnt worry about no follow blogs too much, obviously you dont want to post purely on no follow blogs but your backlink profile should look natural which would mean you have no follow links and also have anchor text which is not targetted as well.
  • One of the more useful, helpful tips, posted in a while.
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    • Right - That's why you want to have a good mixture of various sites, be it nofollow or dofollow.

      Thanks man. Appreciate that.

      A little update guys - When I started, I had around 400 backlinks on ONE site. Now I'm sitting at over 6,000. Rankings have increased on Google drastically. I'm now 11th for my main keyword. Just gotta keep pushing, but like I said, this is pure evidence that blog commenting is still alive and well.
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  • Blog commenting is one of my favorite activity as an new SEO, reading different articles with informative and usable content will surely benefits the readers then in return more backlinks in your site as an relevancy.
  • This method has been around for ages. I occassionally give instructions to my outsourcers to target these blogs, although there are more valuable links to get IMO. Great for Newbs though
  • Felt like I had to update this one - I finally cracked the top 10 in Google for my keyword with 647,000,000 competing pages! Started ramping things up with article submissions, but I can say that blog commenting on high quality dofollow blogs has been the key in my rankings shooting higher and higher.
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    • 647,000,000 isn't how you determine competing pages. Just because 647 million pages mention your keywords doesn't mean they are competing for it. It really doesn't mean anything when people say, "I got #1 for a term that has 800 trillian competing pages."
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  • Thanks I'll try this.
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    • Hi Bryan,

      Thanks for making the time to write this great post - it was just the information that i needed at the right time.

      Have you posted your spreadsheet up yet that you use to record your commenting activities? I would be really interested to see what you have come up with. Nice blog BTW as well.

      Markv

  • Those were some really cool tips. Thanks for sharing them. And yea everyone should comment with a noble objective of adding some value to the post and not just only to leave your link. Other wise such comments do not get filter and the admin mark them as spamm.
  • Still on the blog commenting kick after my original post and proud to say my website is now on the first page of Google ranked #5 for me keyword! Traffic is starting to finally pour in, too

    Obviously, as mentioned previously, blog commenting wasn't all I did in terms of SEO (article writing, video promotion, forum posting, social bookmarking and a few "answers" type websites is also what I did), but blog commenting help take my site out of obscurity to a #5 ranking. Now I just need to work on nabbing that top spot
  • Instead of top commentator I know one guy who uses "powered by wordpress"
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    • Which will show you blogs that are just simply powered by Wordpress....Using the "top commentator" phrase in your research will help narrow your results considerably.
  • awesome thread
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  • It seems like your approach is pretty smart. That is a lot like how I would do it. I have noticed that most blog comments I get are spam, but I do reward the ones who are trying to contribute to the content of a blog post positively.
  • Thanks for the post. Im just getting into posting comments on blogs and your tips are most helpful.

    Thankyou
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  • Great tips, the blatant keyword as your name won't work, some won't even let you register
  • I guess it's a case of finding a good quality 'do follow' Blog related to your niche, that isn't spammed or deserted, quite a difficult task I've found.
  • +1 for the top commentators plugin. I'm working on writing a script to find relevant blogs with that plugin installed. Awesome Google link juice.
  • Thank you, I just started my own blog and have added these plug-ins. I agree that you have to create blogs with content. How do you start? What topics do you use? That has been a bit of a stump for me. Again thanks and informative post.
  • I have not tried blog commenting yet, but you have got me thinking..

    If I do though, I think it would certainly be worth the money to invest in software to speed things up. I hear blog commenting demon is good but have yet to try it. Anyone have recommendations on software?
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    • Too general - By using my domain, not only am I conveying the message that I probably know about article marketing and that's what my site is about, it also helps brand the name of the site, too. Just try to be creative with it.

      No problem! Take advantage of the info here.

      Good deal. Let me know how that develops. I'd be interested to hear/see how that would work.

      Just start with what you know and go from there. It's always best to write what you know. For example, if you write a blog all about dogs and you don't have a dog, you might run out of content ideas and get disinterested quickly. Another idea is to offer people the ability to guest post (as long as they provide good content that you'll approve of first). The more popular your blog, the more people will want to guest post.

      I think this isn't such a good idea. To me, software + blog commenting = spam. Blog commenting shouldn't be used as a "Hey, I found 100 blogs that are dofollow and have the top commentator plugin, so if I blast those with a few comments to get on that list, I can be done with it" type of deal.

      You should truly WANT to contribute to a blog. That's why I've been successful with it. Plus, due to blog commenting the right way, I've had other blog owners come to MY blog and read my posts.

      Like I said, when you take a little time out of your day to do it correctly, the results you can reap are far worth what you could do with any software.
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  • Write a comment, not spam.

    Spam is the bane of all webernet existence and has caused many a blogger to resort to counterproductive measures such as closing their comment section. Even worse than spam, however, are comments that do little more than consume bandwidth. What most bloggers are looking for is feedback that continues the discussion about the topic at hand. Comments like "You don't know what you're talking about" or "I was here first," are not helpful.

    Take the time to read the blog entry and put some effort into writing a response that adds to the conversation and/or helps the blog writer. Your comment is your calling card. The webernet is an open rolodex and as such, how you present yourself through your words will tell people whether or not they want to look you up.
  • I'm just starting blog commenting and have been advised to find 10 blogs and comment on them daily at least once.

    They say check Technorati.com and inlineseo.com (for do follow blogs).

    The blogs should be quite active so they say to find blogs and posts that get at least 10 comments per day per post. And to join the rss feeds so you are teh first to post a comment on a new post.

    Does anyone have any more ideas on finding the right blogs for your niche to get the most traffic and permanent links?

    thanks
  • Commenting on blogs isn't worthless; I've found a lot of fun, new blogs by reading the comments sections on the blogs I already read. If somebody is consistently making good, funny, and/or insightful comments, I'll probably start checking out their blog as well.
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    • Makes sense. With the niches that I'm involved in and the methods I use to find blogs, software really wouldn't help in my case. But, it's something that could work. Only downfall with software is I could see people abusing it either way, but that would be out of anyone's control.

      Yeah - I haven't had a chance to upload it yet. I'll try to get that on there sometime this week.

      Definitely consider blog commenting and interacting with other blog owners. It's well worth it.
  • Hi, I'm new here and new to blogs so please be patient!

    I find a relevant blog and leave a relevant comment with a link to my site, why does the blog owner and other blog owners then link to my site?
  • I have learned many of these tips from experience. It is great that you laid them out here for anyone as commenting can be a very useful way to ad links. The keyword tip is one that I had never heard of before.
  • I commented on the blog almost every guru who sends me emails and seems to be a bit of traffic.
  • Attempt to find blogs not commented on much as well as 3-4 comments will get you that spot for a sitewide link for months as well as months if not forever.
  • I use paid software called www.trafficsponge.com (not an aff link).

    I have 9 or 10 blogs I've listed on it that I like to follow and comment on. It let's me know in the bottom right corner of my screen when one of them has posted on their blog. You can set it to show the little popup for as long as you want. That way I can read the blog posts and be one of the first commenters, if I have something intelligent to say.

    Being one of the first means the people who then read the post and the first couple of comments are more likely to click on your link, if you've posted a worthwhile comment. More likely than if you were commenter #34 anyway.

    You still have to pick which blogs you want to follow though.

    Peggy
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    • Thanks for the info Peggy! I just checked it out and it looks interesting. Seems like a nice way to bring in some traffic, because I definitely get plenty of clicks for a certain group of blogs that I follow and post regularly on. Would be nice to be at the top of those comment lists though
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  • Great tip. I had heard about looking for blogs with the top commentator plugin but now I will really put some legwork into finding those gem blogs
  • thanks for the tips
  • Commenting is a valuable tool for creating a sense of community on a site. It should go without saying that people who abuse the system detract from the community rather than add to it.

    So keeping this in mind I wanted to share some helpful things that I've learned about finding blogs worth commenting on.

    Sites that use the plugins we want to target leave a specific footprint, this makes it easy for engines to spot them.

    For instance to find blogs using the "keywordluv" plugin you search for the phrase "Enter YourName@" exactly how it is in the quotes (just copy/paste)

    I'm sure there are other ways to go about targeting different plugins. Something interesting I found was a search engine dedicated to finding blogs using the "commentluv" plugin: commentluv search engine

    There is a nice blog post here that goes into a bit more depth if you're interested (btw, this is not mine and I'm not affiliated with them): Finding blogs with keywordluv
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  • Nice writeup. Can you teach us some methods to fight with Akismet plugin. Actually I don't need to write spammy comments in blogs. But this plugin mark some of comments as spam. How do you sort out it?

    Thanks
    Rukshan
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  • Yes, this is what I would like to do. I will always search for a blogs that uses Keywordluv plug-in.
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    Blog commenting - It works! Here's what I've learned...

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