Comments on: 1 Blog Comment, 2 Hours Work & One Amazing Link

By: Shaun Anderson (Hobo)

Shaun Anderson (Hobo) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:02:16 +0000

Without testing yourself to see if a page passes pagerank or anchor text benefit, you can never know for sure. For instance, I know one PR7 dofollow blog which is 100% not passing anchor text benefit to external sites. But if Googlebot can see a link without a link-condom on it, it’s capable of passing juice. If it’s on a strong domain, on a relevant page, it’s worth taking the gamble on.

By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:20:33 +0000

Hi Shaun,

Comments – whether in dofollow blogs or any other site – can be effective in bringing real people to your site when they allow links. Some also have a positive impact on your search positions.

The obvious question I have – not being an SEO myself but having more than average familiarity with the subject – is how you can determine that a site passes PageRank to links in comments.

By: Shaun Anderson (Hobo)

Shaun Anderson (Hobo) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:11:50 +0000

No chance I don’t out sites.

PS – I think there’s some misunderstanding… the site in question was not a dofollow blog…. but links in it’s comments passed Pagerank C’mon it’s 2009.

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:17:44 +0000

But what about this site which is a “Great Site” http://

By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:22:47 +0000

Many businesses are being sold on the idea of spamming blogs. Few probably realize that most bloggers are smart enough to delete their comments at best – and report them as spammers so Akismet picks off most of their future comments faster.

Leaving quality comments in dofollow blogs can definitely work IF your comments are relevant. I’ve doubled traffic using that strategy and you can see proof of that using Compete. There is a post that stays in the Most Popular section of GrowMap.com explaining how to do it.

The reason many dofollow blog search engines have nofollow blogs in their results is that many formerly dofollow blog owners got tired of dealing with massive spam and went nofollow.

We are still not only still committed to being a dofollow blog but also offer KeywordLuv so anyone can select anchor text for their QUALITY comments. (Spammy comments are promptly deleted.)

No matter what Google decides or what is best for SEO what is most important IMHO is encouraging readers to interact and rewarding those willing to share their experience and limited time assisting others.

I know that position is unusual especially among those who understand incoming links, SEO and the monopoly that is Google. Interesting that at least in this thread your comments have no links at all.

By: Alok Soni

Alok Soni — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:51:07 +0000

I am still not sure if link building by commenting on do-follow blogs is really worth it. But then what do I know about SEO ? Anyway I will start making some comments here and there.

By: Tom Bathgate

Tom Bathgate — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:14:49 +0000

Another good article, especially the link to the anchor text length article (i couldn’t comment there as comments seem to be closed). That is really useful to know about the 55 character limit, i’m now off to check all my links back from client websites. Its an interesting point about the full url as well being taken into account. 2 things I can honestly say I’d never heard of before that article. I do love this site!!

I tried the dofollow blog commenting thing and found it not that useful. the so called do follow blog search engines all just seem to pump out results of blogs that are no follow.

But then i guess a nofollow links still shows as a link just no PR is passed for it (I hope that’s right).

I guess you just need to find that gold opportunity and take the bull by both horns and go for it!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:50:45 +0000

Another rare but potentially good perk for making a high quality comment is when the blog or website owner sees your comment and then goes on to reference it

…Either as an addendum to that same post you commented on, or in their next post about the same topic. In-content links are always better than one in the comment section; especially for blogs that have no-follow links in the comment section, but do-follow in the posts.

I’ve had both happen and they are sweet. Not only for the additional link juice, but also as social proof by the site owner himself that you apparently know what you’re talking about (and readers may subsequently click through and visit your site as a result).

2 cents.

By: Dealspwn

Dealspwn — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:22:56 +0000

Great site **

Just joking!

Thanks for the read and all the tips. I found your site through google the other day, and you have some excellent SEO information which I am finding very useful, as a beginner.

But you put all that work in, how would you have felt if they hadn’t approved your comment?

By: The SME SEO

The SME SEO — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:13:42 +0000

I’m still playing with blog comment links (not always successfully).

By: Sasa

Sasa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:19:18 +0000

This is exactly what I do. You do not need many of these. But if you spot such an opportunity you must be willing to put in the hours.

Also, this kind of work is fun and leaves you â€“ the link builder â€“ with a good feeling about yourself and what you do.

The best thing about this is that the blogger in most cases will be grateful to you for enriching his or her post. In some cases though ppl are not so thankful if your comment is better than the post itself

By: David from JLC

David from JLC — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:50:04 +0000

We had a potential client come in the other week who had been using a link building service for a different business he was working on. He knew exactly how many links they had been trying to get via submissions etc but when I asked him how many links the site actually had he had no idea. When we had a look at the site in question the inbound links were very disapointing, there were one or two half decent ones but I get the impression they were probably down to luck more than anything else.

I guess its all to easy to just shove in link requests or blog comments anywhere just to look like you are doing something.