Regarding commenting

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Is commenting useful method any more?? I doubt becasue I am not getting any fruitful results through commenting.
#search engine optimization #commenting
  • I think VALID commenting can be useful. You can't just plop down a whimsey comment and expect to get any interest.. as far as the link juice goes.. I wouldn't do a TON of it.
  • Well... are you commenting, or spamming?

    The former works. The latter still works, but nowhere near as well as it used to.
  • Commenting in forums and blogs works wonders still. You'll need to research out the correct places to do them and make sure that they're (mostly) relevant to your niche, though.

    For example, if your niche is all about pink zebras and you post comments in forums all about purple giraffes, Google's not going to give a rip about them as far as your ranking goes.

    On the other hand, if you post in forums about baby zebras, yellow zebras, and polka-dotted zebras, those could be seen as relevant to your pink zebra site, so they'll count better.

    Get me?

    -- j
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    • Agreed. The mistake so many people make is that they think just posting "love your blog" or "great information" will help them.

      Not only will it not help the person commenting but if the blog owner is wise to everything going on with the Google changes, they will most likely delete those type of short comments because they might be counted against them.

      Google values long and extremely relevant comments. Not attaboys.
    • Actually, no.

      None of us knows what criteria Google uses for relevancy. We're all just guessing, because they don't share that information. And if you guess wrong, you're missing out on a potentially large audience.

      Let's say you had a blog about making more money through microjobs. From a marketing standpoint, who might be interested in that?

      People looking for a little extra cash: stay at home moms with extra time, people who are into thrift by necessity but are trying to make a virtue of it, college students, aspirational shoppers, etc.

      Those are four distinctly separate audiences. I'd market to all of them because it would be insane not to.

      We do know there are certain neighborhoods Google doesn't like: porn, gambling, Ponzi schemes, etc. Don't stray into those and you should be fine.

      fLufF
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  • Blog commenting is still an excellent method both for backlinks and traffic.

    The right approach is to include as much value as possible in your comments. Every
    comment should be like a short article. If you are using commenting software to spam
    with generic comments like "Great post, thanks" and such, that won't get you anywhere.

    Also, no need to comment on hundreds of blogs, but only a few of the quality ones.
    By 80-20 rule, just focus on the 20% (or even less) that are of greatest quality and
    bring the best results.
  • Commenting is very useful tool to bring traffic and back links but it is always better to comment manually rather than using any kind of software for it to avoid spamming.
  • Yes, I am doing it manually. Is there any limit in counts of comments per day?
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    Yes, very much so, as long as you add value to the pages on which you comment, so that you can attract the targeted traffic you seek.

    Forgive me sounding such a skepchick, but I always wonder, when people say that, whether they've been trying it with a quantitative or SEO-based approach, because that almost certainly won't work.

    These threads may help you, Lakshmi.

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    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6013301

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5945931

    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ml#post5932891

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5887078

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5846228

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5745169
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    • If what you're offering is of interest (and is relevant) to the visitors to the blog on which you are commenting, you chances of success will increase.

  • It depends,If you are commenting for spamming or commenting to help.
  • If you able comment on your niche related blogs, there must have value. But if you only do comment on dofollow blogs, Google will take it as spamming so try to be natural always do comment on dofollow and nofollow blogs.
  • Forget about the SEO aspect and think about how you can contribute.

    Also, just recently I was approached by a pretty big site that asked me to JV with them - and it all came about simply through a blog comment.
  • Strategic and insightfull commenting on blogs and within forums still work perfectly - all depends on your strategy of where you are commenting and what you are saying
  • Some thing that is done precisely has still got the value. Do not simple use the bots for commenting, try to post a valuable comment.
  • Commenting is not useful is a very generalized statements. Commenting on twitter to sir richard bransons's tweet got these young kids a $1 million investment.

    Like in anything we do there has to a strategy and follow up, commenting if you actually add value is more for forming relationships with much more established people in your niche than backlinking :-), and there in lies the key, as long as you are consistent and adding value it will be like nothing is happening for a long time, but the law of unoverse will kick in and you might end up getting a awesome oppurtunity to partner , work with or being interviewd by the person whom you have been looking up to.
  • I still find it pretty useful for quick traffic
  • i still find it useful for quick traffic
  • it's very useful if you do it right.
    one of my friend made his fortune just doing so
  • Automated commenting definitely does not have near the power it used to. I still use commenting but more for 2nd tier for link juice.
  • As you all say, commenting do wonders but I feel the use of anchor text plays vital role. And some times I use my name since many of the bloggers simply refuse, if they notice anchor text spam.
  • I believe that commenting still working. If your comments are not spam comments then they will be approved and people who read them will not feel like they wasted their time.

    I agree that anchor text has its' role, we have to write something that refers to the site of the link. As for the blogger, is common to use your name, so in my opnion, it's not a big problem
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    • Blog Commenting is useful if you do genuine comment. And if you do blog commenting in related blogs to your keywords then it will give you more profits.
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  • first of all comment quality content as commenting should be like micro blogging...
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    • Blog commenting is an excellent way to attract traffic and get backlinks. This strategy works only if you provide value through your comments. You also have to leave comments on well established blogs that are relevant to the content of your site.
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    Blog Commenting and forum posting is the best and the easiest way to get backlinks and also tons of direct traffic to your website. which can be monetize for amazon or adsense. but you have to be very careful about the quality and the type of the places where to comment. related forums and blogs are the best place to comment.
    thanks
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