SEO Tycoon

**FenceGuy** · 03-19-2010, 12:27 PM

I have been blogging and commenting on blogs for over 2 years. I have tested many ways of getting links. Commenting on blogs does NOT help with SEO! Quit spamming blogs thinking you will get a boost in SERP's from doing it.

I have this theory, it is a little crazy, but I promise you it actually works!

1. If you are going to set up a blog, make sure you are writing about something you have some level of knowledge about.
2. Write interesting, helpful, maybe even controversial content. Original research even.
3. Link out to high authority sites on the topic. Yeah, I know you are scared to give away that precious PR you don't even have yet! It works though, linking out to other sources helps the reader, it may get you noticed by the author of the site you link to, and nobody like a dead end site. If nobody linked to other sites, how could we build quality, natural links?
4. Interact with your community, whether that involves forums, blog comments, twitter, whatever. Interact to be helpful, ask questions, answer questions, debate issues, but don't do it thinking that you are link building!
5. Turn off any plugins or addons you have telling you whether a link has rel=no-follow removed.
6. Stop trying to game the system, if you work it the way it was designed, results will be good, and they will last.
7. If you think Google doesn't know the difference between a comment link and a content link, think again.

And most important, don't worry about PR, I have been working on a site that is a PR3 (on the toolbar) with over 900 pages of content and no internal PR, it gets over 200k views a month and makes over $4k in ad revenues a month. Yes, it took 3yrs to build it up to that level, but it was done naturally, not by tying to game the system.

I have another site that gets less than 1k unique visitors a month, and provides over $2k a month in revenues. It is a PR1 (on the toolbar).

There is no big secret, it is finding your target market, targeting specific keywords, and working to get there.

Ok, that is my rant for today. Enjoy!

**vangogh** · 03-19-2010, 06:21 PM

That can't be right Keith. Are you actually suggesting that the secret is to provide something useful for real people so they'll visit and want to visit again? And maybe just maybe, you'll be able to interact with real people who may hire you or buy your products or generally help you in some way? That can't be right. That just can't be right.
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**FenceGuy** · 03-19-2010, 06:33 PM

I know, sometimes my ideas are really out there in left field, but it could work right?

**yvhes1104** · 03-20-2010, 12:34 AM

Sometimes these experts differ from beliefs about effective SEO. Well, I noticed that it depends on what works for you. So it would be best to say your strategy worked for you and it may work for others too. But not say one strategy such as blog commenting does not work just because it didn't work for you or something else worked better. Blog commenting worked very well for most people.

**FenceGuy** · 03-20-2010, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by yvhes1104

Sometimes these experts differ from beliefs about effective SEO. Well, I noticed that it depends on what works for you. So it would be best to say your strategy worked for you and it may work for others too. But not say one strategy such as blog commenting does not work just because it didn't work for you or something else worked better. Blog commenting worked very well for most people.

Blog commenting can work wonders for building up relationships with other bloggers, promoting your site, and getting traffic from referrals. But I promise you, commenting for links will only get you so far in SERP's. I didn't make this up.

If you want to rank for keywords that are not competitive, so you can get 15cents a click on your adsense filled site, then yes it will work.

All I am saying is that you could be doing much better if you looked at commenting differently, it is not an effective way to build links. It is an effective way to get noticed, if you are actually commenting because you have something to say.

**zeekster** · 03-23-2010, 03:22 AM

good call.
i know for a fact that blog comment links do not help and you even get penalized for it. anyone out there who says otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.

**mack123** · 03-23-2010, 05:24 AM

I think blog commenting is not so easy as many seo expert says. Because first you have to search the blogs, which should be relevant to your site and then you have to provide the valuable comments, after all that it depends on moderator that he would approve your comment or not and that would be no follow or do follow. So friend what you think that is it so easy task.

**FenceGuy** · 03-23-2010, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by zeekster

good call.
i know for a fact that blog comment links do not help and you even get penalized for it. anyone out there who says otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.

Would love to know where you got the idea that you get penalized for commenting on blogs. Penalizing people for commenting on blogs would be utter catastrophe for blogging, which Google themselves encourages, so I don't see that as a possibility.....

**vangogh** · 03-24-2010, 05:25 PM

I really doubt you're going to get penalized for commenting on blogs unless your commenting is auto spam across the web, but in that case the penalty isn't specifically because you left a comment on a blog

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I think blog commenting is not so easy as many seo expert says. Because first you have to search the blogs, which should be relevant to your site and then you have to provide the valuable comments, after all that it depends on moderator that he would approve your comment or not and that would be no follow or do follow. So friend what you think that is it so easy task.

I think you're missing the point. The idea isn't to comment for any seo value there might be in the links. You shouldn't care if the link is nofollowed. It's irrelevant.

Also it shouldn't be hard to find blogs that are relevant to your site. You should have some interest in whatever your site is about and a few quick searches can lead you to most of the top blogs on that topic. Read those blogs. When you read a post that makes you want to say something in response, leave a comment. You're not looking to leave a short hit and run comment. You want to leave a well thought out comment that ideally engages the blogger and readers of the blog.

If you do that people (including the blogger) will click the link and follow it back to your site. Assuming your site is worthwhile and interesting to them, they'll subscribe to your blog if you have one. Of course you're blog has to be a good one and offer the same kind of well thought out writing you left in your comment.

You can also write posts that link out to those same blogs to also help get their attention.

The key to the whole thing is having interesting, entertaining, helpful, etc. information on both your site and in the comments you leave.

**dWhite** · 03-24-2010, 05:51 PM

As I've said before many times over, you shouldn't be blog commenting for the sake of SEO and backlinks.

**joypackard** · 03-24-2010, 11:06 PM

blog commenting just work fine for me.

**webcreationuk** · 03-25-2010, 05:54 AM

Blog commenting will work if you have something to say, if you just go and post "nice one, thanks" on several blogs, good luck.

**akki45** · 03-25-2010, 08:02 AM

Posting positive commnets in blogs definitely encourage the blogger to make a good relationship with you. He/she would show interest to come down to your blog and post comments. This way you can get satisfactory number of visits. But remember it's time consuming and everytime you need to post good commnets in blogs...like not only 'thanks for the post' or 'nice posting' etc. There must be something that proves you're serious and you don't have only intention to get a backlink for your blog.

**janecooke** · 03-25-2010, 11:54 AM

Blog commenting done within context helps build traffic. I have found new and interesting blogs through comments. If the subject the blog covers is something you are good at, it can really help build your profile which is benefitial in the long run.

**CyberFreak** · 03-25-2010, 12:30 PM

i think blog comment is work if your comment is relevant to your site

**aadam** · 03-25-2010, 01:04 PM

You dont give-away pr by having outbound links, mentioned in post 1

**yvhes1104** · 03-26-2010, 05:29 AM

That's my point. Some people do blog commenting to get noticed and drive traffic. This is through putting high quality content on the comments.

**Advertise** · 03-26-2010, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by FenceGuy

Blog commenting can work wonders for building up relationships with other bloggers, promoting your site, and getting traffic from referrals. But I promise you, commenting for links will only get you so far in SERP's. I didn't make this up.

If you want to rank for keywords that are not competitive, so you can get 15cents a click on your adsense filled site, then yes it will work.

All I am saying is that you could be doing much better if you looked at commenting differently, it is not an effective way to build links. It is an effective way to get noticed, if you are actually commenting because you have something to say.

I have to agree. People seem to forget that the secret is in the content you provide to the reader, whether it is on a blog or in a forum, or even through article marketing. And as you said in your original post, Google DOES know the difference between quality and quantitiy... I think it's the majority of the people out there that do not the the difference.

**risahe** · 03-26-2010, 09:04 PM

I think many Blog Commentinga are as spam.

**iexin** · 03-27-2010, 03:11 AM

Linking out to authority sites on the topic is what i always do ,and i think it bring good effect on both pr and time needed to get indexed since it look more natural to search engine.