SEO Quick Tips – Link building with comments

Link building is a tough task I’ve to admit. No, it’s not difficult to do, but doing it the “right way” demands more time and energy or else, you end up being a nobody at it.

Personally, I go for natural link building developing content that’s “linkable”. Use it in combination with the social media and things can get very interesting ! Now, the problem arises when not all of your content is really potential link bait stuff.

I mean, how successful can one be trying to link bait for “101 Home Loan Services” ? Lyndoman may have an idea here, but I’m of the opinion that you better don’t do it rather find other channels where you can develop potentially viral content, that closely resembles the original idea/product and find a bridge between the two.

Drifting away from the topic, I wanted to talk about blog commenting – a very popular tool used these days to gather links. (And I think it’s more popular these days for it’s quick turn around time compared to other methods.)

How do you do blog commenting?

- By finding out blogs that allow “do follow” comment links related to your content, and actively commenting on them to source links.

If not for the time required to deliver real comments, this could’ve been the next best weapon for spammers (it already is).

How to find blogs that pass link juice?

1.
Find out from Google using search queries, blogs that have the “Top Commentators” plugin installed.
Ex:- Google for “allintitle:top commentators” and you could find them. (the query may be blocked by Google if too many people are searching, so try alternate ones.)

2. Find out using Google, blogs that use the “Comment luv” plugin.
There may be both “nofollow” and “dofollow” comments here, you may have to sieve them out.

3. Find out resource lists on the web like this one.

Believe me, there are lot of blogs out there that offer dofollow comments and links, it’s only a matter of finding them. But once you have them make sure you only use the best ones, that are -

- High PR (Preferable 4 and above)
- Related to your domain and content
- Not penalized by Google
- Not in bad neighborhood

And, don’t get carried away with all the links you are gathering, make sure you don’t do it the “bad way” and stick to these guidelines while commenting.

To some wholesome, quality backlinks !!

100 Responses

  1. commenting on blogs is more about traffic from refferals than PR alone. I was just wondering why people still talk about PR. It does not influence traffic, serps or anything else in my experience….as I have been banned for PR too, but it did not have much probs with my serps so far…

    But comments bring in new refferals from the blogs you comment in…it is really good to get some 10-20 visitors a day for a single comment! ;) I am in the process of creating a list of blogs that send you good traffic per comment…stay tuned for that!!!

    • I think PR is still important as long as we are not overdose it in short period of time.

    • Who said PR doesn’t help ranking? When your site is PR6, it automatically gains enough authority to rank each one of its posts in the first page, without any link-building at all. This is a myth that PR doesn’t matter! Google PR does matter. If not, why would you ever consider a site’s PR when assessing the competition of a keyword? Think again!

  2. Mani Karthik

    I don’t know if all of those “dofollow” comment enabled blogs are really high traffic. But ‘traffic’ has different meanings to different people.
    When I say traffic, I mean hundreds of hits. I’m unsure if the time and energy spent on commenting is really worth working for traffic.

  3. not really, in my words traffic is more like targeted RSS converting traffic :) even if a comment manages to bring in some 100 visitors in the first 3 days, I can surely say at least 3 rss readers will be added up…and it helps conversing in the blogosphere. Interestingly I just got a mail from a person who wants to buy advertising on my site who was reffered from a popular blogs first comment :)

  4. i did just that last night, and found a couple of PR3 to PR6 blogs that gives backlinks when you comment…

  5. thanks brother. It was a very nice post and helped me a lot in learning about link building

  6. I’ve always enjoyed the comments as a form of discussion. Sometimes it results in traffic or subscriptions but most of the time it results in learning a bit more about the topic you are writing on. For example, I found this page through a direct search on the topic with the direct intent to write a comment with a backlink. What I didn’t plan on was intelligible, interesting content and some useful tips (ie searching for specific plugins to find comment-kind blogs.) Good tips and interesting points by the previous commentors.

  7. If you engage yourself with your niche with good discussion and get links out of that benifit,chances are they are good!

    But most of high profile blog that do or don’t give do-follow have a strict comment policy which most commenters fail to notice and only land up having their comment deleted or their IP banned!

    Commenting

    Name: Cheap SEO Services
    Website: mycheapseo.com

    Only makes the dicussion look cheap and out of reputation. I always tend to move away from those dirty spammers!

    Secondly, the myth of anchor links will slowly change.. as you can see more and more newbies try to stuff the anchor links everywhere they comment!

    A simple and easier way to attract links/referrals is to place your real name & e-mail (possibly yourname@yourdomain.com) and link to your site. The call to action (checking your website) is relatively high than that of branding names with URL.

    Again, I might not be perfectly right.. but I consider this ethical and myself have went across numerous sites and subscribed!

    Again… remove the Search Bot out of your heads and think how a user might find about clicking your name!

  8. well summed up by vijay and seo commenting….I would rather comment on the bigger blogs with nofollow as it attracts more traffic and targeted converting ones too.

    For the niche mini sites, I think mani’s idea will help boost rankings with the dofollow.

  9. You are right anand! And FYI.. I’m Vinay as opossed to Vijay in your comment! LoL!

  10. Thanks for this tip. That will be really useful.

  11. cassie

    thanks! it’s very informative.

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  14. Thanks.

    Very interesting post!

  15. Make sure your comments are relevant – posts such as “nice post” are often rejected by the site owner.

    Good luck!

    Frank Polenose.

  16. Hi guys!

    I’m new to this aand it seems a little bit hard to get a good pagerank, once i went from 0 to 2 in 2 weeks os so, then i stopped writing in my blog for a few months and now the pagerank is 0 again… thank you for sharing he info with us,
    Have a Great Week!

  17. Interesting but how can i increase my PR ? And more traffic without struggle but some tricks ?

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  19. Some of the best advice comes from this website. From a new blogger/website prospective and my knowledge of SEO this approach is probably the best. For the more experiences webmasters posting on nofollow websites could be more beneficial. My guess is we probably need both, but the technique in the article should work well for start me out my site. Lord knows, I still have tons to learn.
    Thanks good info!

  20. in Blog Commenting Do follow blog commenting site is better for getting quality back links to website.

  21. Thanks for sharing this tips, Blog comments and forum submission is the best way to get links

  22. Many bloggers comment to get comments. Many also comment to connect with people. The undying need to be loved is strong with the blogging community.

  23. I think do follow comments are pretty much worthless. In my opinion, any free and easy made link building techniques are bound to be valued poorly by Google.

  24. Hi,
    Wordpress provides us lot of useful plug-in.But i like the commentluv most because it gives the an extra link to the commentator as reward and brings lot of the traffic.So win situation for all.
    Thanks for the sharing.

  25. Wladimir Dumont

    Hi Mani – I need your advice ! As an affiliate I sell books on the Web and my site has 100% unique content. But after placing dofollow and nofollow links for almost 1 year still very low ranking in Google UK. My site is hosted by Godaddy in the USA and my target country is the UK. Now this website http://www.best-seo-optimization-tips.co.uk/ says that my host should be in the UK in order to be able to rank high in Google UK. Do you know if it’s true that the location of the hosting company is important for ranking in search engines ?

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  26. An excellent resource of information i will certainly return to check on the latests posts

  27. Hi,

    but if i dont have backlink of PR 4 then how can we exchange links with pr4 websites…?

    Regards

    SEO RANK SMART

  28. I want to learn link building so i think that this blog is very appropriate for link building information

  29. Blog commenting is a part in social media. Link building is necessary to every website. It works as referrals. Google likes referrals. And, Link building is playing main role in SEO to get more page rank.

  30. I would like to know more seo tips from you. Please, send us more details.

  31. Great compilation! Thanks for sharing!!

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  33. Link building play a important role in seo. When i read this blog . I got the great information from this blog related to link exchange.

  34. Link building with comments is not vital but i t always helps,

    everylittle helps!!!

  35. Thanks for the great reading,Great Posting,I will pass this on to our ira clients to read.

  36. I agree, but not with all the comments. Link Building plays an important role in SEO to get more page rank.

  37. This is an interesting website aimed at small businesses and entrepreneurs. Great site, I am always looking for new resources.

  38. Hi,,
    Need Help!

    I’m new in this and it seems a little bit hard to get a good pagerank, I have been placing many links and am still at ranking very low,,

    Many Thanks

  39. Hi Mani,

    Really Good Tips for links, i love your all social media article.

    Please keep me update

    thanks

  40. I’d say link building has to be the most important part of SEO, however you need some good unique content in the first place !

  41. You penned them in a different way. I liked you article. Though I run a couple of sites I’m new to SEO. My SEO guys are taking all my money and I need to learn to do it myself.

  42. I never tried this idea and thanks for your post.

  43. Hi Mani,

    Nice work dude, very useful for both a newbie and also a experienced webmaster.

  44. if you want to achieve a good and fast ranking in the most of the search engine than blog commenting is the easiest and the fast method to get a backlink from the high pr site. if you made a comment on a high pr site if that link is the dofollow one than it will give a boost in your ranking. .

  45. This is a good article.

    Gave me more good insights about how important social marketing is and how we can all benefit form it.

    Keep it coming.

    Thanks for sharing.

  46. well summed up by vijay and seo commenting….I would rather comment on the bigger blogs with nofollow as it attracts more traffic and targeted converting ones too.

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  48. wow commenting got a lot of power over seo.. but when ever i use my main keyword as a comment name the keyword disappears from the google search.

  49. goa beaches ? wtf r u a spammer?

  50. Tips are very useful for me…..

  51. Hey Mani,

    great googling tips. i think always commenting on dofollow blogs is not so important if you want to drive traffic towards your blog. definitely commenting on dofollow blogs will help get you link juice.

    If driving traffic to your blog is the main motto of commenting, then we should actively go ahead and start commenting of every blog of similar niche irrespective of dofollow or nofollow. Well thats my opinion. I would definitely like to hear from others.

    Cheers.

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  53. i like this tips,very useful

  54. Thanks a bunch, great read. It seems that people can get really carried away with this stuff.

  55. Very Nice tips

    Thanks for sharing it.

  56. awesome tips, thanks to this great post!

  57. I’m working on new initiatives for my company and this is one of them. Thanks for the education.

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  60. thanks for the tips! got to follow your ways

  61. Blog commenting is considered one of the easy and effective link building strategies. You just need to be wise enough on choosing the right blog site.This article I believe has given the basic tips and the criteria of a good blog site, that can help drive traffic to your site. Thanks for sharing :)

  62. Thanks to all yes your right .. blog commenting is a very important tool .. for getting some inbound links to respective sites …..

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  64. thanks for the tips! got to follow your way.

  65. Great tips. I life the thought of evaluating where you post i.e. not on bad sites. Good info.

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  67. Thanks for the information. It can be really helpful to increase traffic on site. Keep posting stuff like this.

  68. Thanks for article.Its usefull for me.

  69. @ bage, links exchange are more important but i must be from good page ranks and related topics websites,
    i was worked as SE optimizer in a company, now i make my own website and now i works for my own online company, my all keywords are seo, internet marketing and web designers related , e-mail me if u want to exchange links.

  70. Nice information it will help me understanding the SEO .continue posting such nice comments

  71. i agree building good back-links is a tough job,i mean back links should be from a high PR and relevant and related site

  72. I have recently installed the nodofollow plugin for Firefox. This establishes whether the links om any given page are follow or no follow, very useful for blog commenting.

  73. one can easily find whether the links on the site is no follow or do follow by installing the seo tool bar

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  75. Very very useful information.
    Thanks for sharing this to all.

  76. A very useful article..the links exchange is the worst way to promote your site..
    thanx.

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  79. Your 3 tips above are new for me. I will try that. Thanks

  80. I would just say that not only dofollow links count. Nofollow can also help to rank better in serp. And they do the work just fine. The only diffrience is that You don’t get link juice.

  81. I wish I could get more comments on my own blog to get discussions going. I notice just a couple of comments get others going, but getting the first comment or two is difficult.

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  83. great comments very informative

  84. Blog Commenting is playing a most important role into increasing any website SERP ranking….But so many people doing bad use in name of spamming for blog commenting through some softwares…I have a wordpress site and getting daily 100+ comments and 90% are spam….so be careful of this….anyway…very good tips for SEO for beginners..
    You are doing a great job Mani…keep it up….
    Thanks

  85. Blog Commenting is playing a most important role into increasing any website SERP ranking….But so many people doing bad use in name of spamming for blog commenting through some softwares…I have a wordpress site and getting daily 100+ comments and 90% are spam..
    Thanks

  86. Ngan Tengyuen

    I think with Panda and G+, branding plays an important role. Maybe nofollow matters in a different metric but not on pagerank metric.