About blog commenting

I do it sometimes. Most of the time I don't. Building links manually this way is, in my humble opinion, a waste of time.

I find good quality comments on relevant blogs with no keywords in the anchor text are a fantastic source of direct traffic. I still get visits to my fitness site from blog comments that I left months ago and these are amongst the most targeted visitors I get on the site. Their time on site and pages per visit are well above average.

You have to take the time to leave a well thought out, relevant comment that adds to the article or creates a discussion but I think it's well worth taking the time.

Hope this helps,

Tom

But Tom, his question is if you use your name or your keyword in the name field...

I must admit to doing both at times. Have also used my first name - the keyword.

Like this: Bob-Penguin Toys

Well the question was "is it a waste of time if you don't include your keyword in the anchor text".

My answer was that I don't think it's a waste of time because of the direct traffic benefit.

Tom

If our comments will be approve by the blog owner. Then post will be able to generate back link other wise our comment goes spam. I am right or wrong anybody give me advice.

I am a web designer, but I want to gain blog commenting knowledge. please guide me.

Blog commenting are beneficial or not......If beneficial please explain me why?

Any one guide me.. how can we post successful blog comment...

Little inpatient there Naseem?

Blog commenting is definitely not a waste of time if you do it right.

There are plenty of blog owners who approve QUALITY comments, even if you're using a variation of your anchor text. (For example, "Rick From Gardening Supplies")

If anchor text is a big requirement, look for KeywordLuv / CommentLuv blogs. Blogs with these plugins generally encourage names with anchor text.

yeah if you don't use link in your anchor text than blog commenting is useless for you.also there is some question about follow or no follow link.

i set low obl and above 2 pr rules then let nhseo go, computer is always on anyway. (my vps are doing other intensive things)

Man who thinks manual comments are a waste of time must be living with too easy niches. With my sites, after I get all the Senukex blast, pr, blog comment blah blah etc for a keyword, I just go to Google and search for my keyword. Then I stumble through the first 3 pages of results to find sites/blogs where comment opportunities are available.

You can see from previous comments whether the admin allow keywords or not in name and make a comment accordingly. there is nothing wrong in putting your name as well in it (after Google looking for more anchor links variety- its a good thing to do). This does help on very competitive niches to get that little advantage after your blast. I usually make 5 comments for a single keyword and wait to see the rank updates.

How do you guys find dofollow blogs in your niche

A few good tips in here. Concentrating on moving towards quality content - your blog comments, your site content, article content, etc. - is a solid way to protect yourself from Google's authoritarian methods for "protecting their user experience."

I'm really coming to believe that rather than trying to game their system as they get more aggressive, we should learn what they want and learn to "play *their* game."

Think of it as a sales technique with Google the customer. You want rankings, then you sell Google on what you have to offer. What does the Google customer want? They want good content to sell to their customers/users.

Online marketing - with automation and loopholes - has been a very inexpensive form of doing business compared to what brick and mortar businesses have to do to survive in the "real world." It feels like Google is starting to force the "real world" on marketers.

Will it cost more in dollars (more outsourcing help to keep up sites) or time (your time to do it according to Google rules) to market online? Yes, most likely. But one big benefit is that you aren't putting your assets at risk anywhere near as much.

So it takes longer to become a big-dog empire of sites owner? Yes. But I believe we'll end up with a portfolio of assets that has true long-term value because you don't have to worry about the search engines attacking your sites in force.

It is not a good idea. Most of them may be removed.

Include a keyword in the title, it's better for searching.
Comment also can help you to get traffic.

i usualy use my keyword as the name

I don't think it's a waste of time if it contributed something.

Blog commenting are beneficial if it approved . check my signature

Blog commenting is very authority backlinks method can help you to rank your website rapidly on the first page of search engine but these blog comments links should be from do-follow and high page rank blogs then it will be effective for your web site.

is it also a valuable link if I write my name(most bloggers don't allow keywords) instead of a keyword?
This is what exactly I'm wondering.

Don't not post on a relevent post just because it's nofollow, and don't always use your keyword for the domain, mix up the links, make it look more natural.

Great comments, but a quick question. What is the best way to find the best blogs to comment on? For example, if we are in the diet area, how would one most easily go about finding the best blogs for that, with good traffic, comments allowed, etc. I saw the notes on scrapebox and have a license but really want to manually post the comments and stick to a limited number of blogs to do it...

it's the way of building backlinks or building reputations... i think so..

Blog commenting is one way to build links and to get traffic. You should use a keyword instead of your name in blog comments. Keyword research is, at its core, simply discovering what keyword or keywords that a user types into a Search Engine like Google to find information. Using these discovered keywords in your postings is referred to as search engine optimization or SEO.

Still blog commenting is really good method to promote your site and to get backlinks.
You can get relevant traffic too from those backlinks.

commenting must be done in proper way related to the post. Otherwise no use.

It seems like everyone is talking about different things in this thread. I can see an argument for high-quality blog comments to be used to drive traffic, fine. "Hey, this was a really great post, I hadn't thought about Labrador grooming using this type of brush. I wonder if the same type of brush would be good for Poodles? I'll give it a go and write it up on my blog."

However, it seems like lots of people are talking about blog comments for SEO. If it's possible to find genuinely high-quality blogs with comments which are both moderated and do-follow, that's news to me.

And are some people suggesting that no-follow blog comments will still confer some type of SEO benefit? How?

Wordpress software is no-follow anyhow, so it doesn't matter.

That said, your success rate will be better if you use your name. I don't approve blog comments that I know are spam.