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Comment backlink question

by Tijs
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Fellow Warriors,

I want to leave backlinks through comments. Now I know an admin can mark a comment as 'spam'.

What will happen if I post a comment to a competition site and that person thinks: "hell no, I'll mark you as spam!"

Will this hurt my rankings in any way?

Cheers,
Tijs
#backlink #comment #question
  • Profile picture of the author online only
    Probably not, but why are you doing this anyway?
    Blog comments are mostly no-follow, thus don't help you much in rankings. Plus, if vast majority of your backlinks are coming blog comments - isn't that spammy?

    Stop that, seriously. I'll mark you as "spam" if you came across my blog and try to get a backlink by using blog comment.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tijs
      Originally Posted by online only View Post

      Probably not, but why are you doing this anyway?
      Blog comments are mostly no-follow, thus don't help you much in rankings. Plus, if vast majority of your backlinks are coming blog comments - isn't that spammy?

      Stop that, seriously. I'll mark you as "spam" if you came across my blog and try to get a backlink by using blog comment.
      You're assuming that I'll try to get my vast majority of backlinks this way. Truth is something completely different
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    • Profile picture of the author Samuel Adams
      Originally Posted by online only View Post

      Probably not, but why are you doing this anyway?
      Blog comments are mostly no-follow, thus don't help you much in rankings. Plus, if vast majority of your backlinks are coming blog comments - isn't that spammy?

      Stop that, seriously. I'll mark you as "spam" if you came across my blog and try to get a backlink by using blog comment.
      And, I agree with you, reading/commenting on a blog for the sole purpose of getting a backlink is SPAM at it's worst. However, aren't there instances where a reader truly wants to know what you are writing and takes the time to intelligently comment on your blog? These would be people who take the time to come back time and again to read and comment, whether or not they leave a backlink. That's not spam, is it? Just looking for some feedback from others as to whether or not this type of action is spam or community building.
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  • Profile picture of the author danielcollins
    Originally Posted by Tijs View Post

    Fellow Warriors,

    I want to leave backlinks through comments. Now I know an admin can mark a comment as 'spam'.

    What will happen if I post a comment to a competition site and that person thinks: "hell no, I'll mark you as spam!"

    Will this hurt my rankings in any way?

    Cheers,
    Tijs
    It will hurt to your online authority and partially will affect your ranking
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  • Profile picture of the author Stefan Shields
    Look I do this for blogs I like to visit because I just don't believe that Google punish you for leaving a no-follow link.

    Why on Earth would there be the option to leave a link in comments if it was bad?

    Wouldn't Google think it is more suspicious if you have a nice organised set of do-follow backlinks from the right places and absolutely zero no-follow links?

    Surely having a mixture of links in different places is more natural.

    If you want to comment then go for it.
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    • Profile picture of the author PathofLeastResistance
      It won't hurt you, but it probably won't help you. Commenting is basically the worst method to backlinking these days. Don't think 10,000 comments for $5 bucks is better than 1 nice backlink from high a high DA site (notice I didn't reference PR there).
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It doesn't matter If your link is rejected, it's not going to move a page in the SERPs. If the link never existed, then rejecting the link wouldn't ever have allowed Google to crawl the link.

    Your better off getting links where webmasters place the link for you, those are long term quality links (assumes it's a relevant backlink site/page).

    If you have a legit niche site, this might help: Easy way to build links
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  • Profile picture of the author TheMarketingLord
    Having the comments not accepted won't affect your SEO at all - the links didn't even exist.

    However, regarding blog comment backlinks in general - they have their purposes, but the time when you could base your entire SEO strategy around them are LONG gone.

    Cheers!

    Jan
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    When you comment on you competitor's site, you should expect to be rejected, but it doesn't affect your rankings at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Laubster
    Don't spend your time manually blog commenting. You can buy great packages for anywhere from $7-35 on BlackHatWorld and BlackHatLinks dot com, and the results will be much better than anything you do manually.
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    • Profile picture of the author Samuel Adams
      Originally Posted by Laubster View Post

      Don't spend your time manually blog commenting. You can buy great packages for anywhere from $7-35 on BlackHatWorld and BlackHatLinks dot com, and the results will be much better than anything you do manually.
      Considering how most bloggers actively monitor their blog comments, won't those bot generated blog comments just get deleted quickly before they are indexed by Google?
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  • Profile picture of the author EduCom
    Blogs though give no follow links it does not mean that it is worthless..of course it works..Every link is good if it comes from authority and high pr sites..
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  • Profile picture of the author Hrkjds
    If a link is not clickable by anyone, Google does not consider it as a link..so if your comment has been trashed by the blog owner it does not mean anything..
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