For a long time my SEO strategy consisted of just commenting on other authority blogs. Not only does it get you more traffic, exposure and new relationships, it also counts as a backlink. Try and see where your competitors are getting their backlinks from. You might just find a bunch of them come from comments on well ranked blog posts.
Use Your Name, Not Keywords.
Cutts said this is the kind of thing he does all the time. He often posts comments on blogs, that are topically relevant, and he links to his own personal blog rather than the Google webmaster help blog or website.
I leave topically relevant comments on topically relevant sites all the time. So somebody posts an SEO conspiracy theory and I'm like, "No, that's not right," I'll show up and a leave a comment that says, "Here is the pointer that shows this is not correct," or, "Here's the official word," or something like that. And I'll just leave a comment with my name, and often even point to my blog rather than Google's webmaster blog, because I'm just representing myself. So lots of people do that all the time and it is completely fine.
He does caution that how you represent yourself in a link can make the difference. He suggested users use the person only rather than the company name or keyword-rich "name" to avoid any problems.
The sorts of things that I would start to worry about is it's better to often leave your name so someone knows who they are dealing with, rather than "cheap study tutorials" or "fake driver's license", or whatever the name of your business is, often that will get a chillier reception than if you show up with your name.
He also warns that blog comments should not be the main part of your link building strategy. Having a large portion of those backlinks coming from blog comments, it can raise red flags with Google.
If your primary link building strategy is to leave comments all over the web, to the degree that you have a huge fraction of your link portfolio comments, and no real people linking to you, then at some point that can be considered a link scheme. At a very high level we reserve the right to take action on any sort of deceptive or manipulative link schemes that we consider to be distorting or rankings.
But he does reiterate that as you go about your day shouldn't be a concern.
But if you just doing regular organic comments and not doing it as a "OK, I have to leave this many comments a day every single day because that's what I'm doing to build links to my sites," you should be completely fine and it's not the sort of thing you should be worried about it all.
As long as you aren't actively using blog comments as a way to increase your backlink profile significantly, you are posting on topically relevant blogs, and you aren't using the a spammy keyword heavy name, but are using your real name instead, you should be fine and not get penalized.
First, let me ask you, which one is the right blog to comment on? Let me wrap that in short. Blog should have these characteristics.
- Should be active, authority blog.
- Should be reputed one.
- Should be a hub for serious web masters in your niche.
- Should have a good Page Rank.
- Do-follow? Excellent! No-follow, it’s still holds value. Do comment on it.
- Top commentator Dofollow widget
- Recent comments widget
Keep this check-list in mind whenever you are on a mission – Blog Commenting. You can always use Google to search blogs to comment on. Here’s how to do that. Simply use some of these phrases to find the best out of the web.
“high PR blogs to comment on”“high PR do-follow for blog commenting”“high PR blogs using CommentLuv/KeywordLuv plugin”.
OR
inurl:.edu "Keyword Relevant To Your Blog or Niche"+"Comments"inurl:.gov "Keyword Relevant To Your Blog or Niche"+"Comments"
Whenever we talk about search engine optimization, some of the common words are noindex, doindex, nofollow, dofollow, meta robots and so on. All the words hold equal importance in the book of SEO. I will be explaining about Nofollow and Dofollow. Specially for newbies who are new to SEO or people who are still not clear about Nofollow or dofollow, this will be useful.
Dofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to improve the effectiveness of certain types of search engine, thereby improving the quality of search engine results. This is a concept introduced by Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen in the year 2005.
Dofollow links attributes allow search engine bots to follow link. That means if the website owner is linking back to you with dofollow attributes, it does pass on link juice.
Example of Dofollow Link:
<a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>
Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.
Nofollow links attributes do not allow search engine bots to follow link. That means if the website owner is linking back to you with nofollow attributes, it does not pass on link juice. Only Humans will be able to follow the links. Though some time back Google made it clear that they don’t consider nofollow link attributes but weightage of such links are really less. Even though, it’s a good practice to use Nofollow link attribute to those link.
Example of Nofollow Link:
<a href=”http://www.google.com/” rel=”nofollow”>Google</a>
As a blogger, there are a few questions that are always on your mind. For example:
- How do I improve my blog’s search engine rankings?
- How do I get my blog to be noticed?
- What is the ideal length of a blog post?
I, too, have been constantly studying and researching for the past few years, and I have been sharing the information I’ve learned and the tips I have developed during that time.
Can blog comments help in ranking your content higher? Let’s begin with one of the major aspects of on-page SEO, and that is the length of a post’s content. According to a study done by SERPIQ, the greater the length of the content, the higher the post will rank in search engines.
Image taken from SERPIQ
Lengthy and detailed posts attract natural backlinks and shares. BUT before you decide that you will start writing lengthy, detailed content from now on, let me give you a important information regarding blog comments:
Your blog comments are also calculated as a part of your post content! The number of high quality comments your post receives will also improve the overall ranking of your content. Comments on your blog help to improve the overall keyword variation and quality of the content. At the same time, irrelevant comments on your blog posts do more damage than good.
The comments on your blog have a significant impact on the ranking of your blog posts, and it is well worth your effort to encourage users to comment. When you encourage comments from others, make sure your readers add value with their comments. Don’t be shy about deleting any comments which are not relevant to the post quick, short-phrased comments such as “good post”, “nice post”, etc. Also, be sure to analyse your top ranking posts and try to learn whether there is any relationship between the number of comments and the traffic on the post.
About Author:
Dawood Khan is a professional blogger with a love of travel. He writes regularly about internet marketing on his personal blog and on the internet marketing discussion forum Warrior.PK.
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