Blog Commenting Ideas: Think Outside of the Box
You know a good link building is sometimes just a good marketing. Success of a link building campaign often depends on your creativity, quick wit, ability to think outside the box and search for new link building ideas.
Blog commenting is a great link building method and can give you a lot of links and targeted human traffic if your comments are valuable and informative. One of the ways to build links by leaving good comments is helping people who are seeking for a solution.
In the articles people often describe how to solve certain problems. The readers can ask for help in the comments. If you are good at the specific area, here is a good opportunity for you to make a show of your wit in the comment and get a link back to your website. By helping others not only obtain you one more link, you also establish yourself as an expert in your market niche. If you provide a viable solution in the comment, more readers are likely to click on your link and come to your website.
It’s quite easy to search for blogs where people are asking for help using Fast Blog Finder Gold Edition. You just enter the words or phrases that people use when asking for a solution and run a search, for example:
"how to" "problem" "help" "tutorial" "how can I" "solution" "is there a fix"
To find the blogs relevant to your niche, add your keywords, for example:
"how to" +"keyword phrase" "problem" +keyword
To search for the "help" words in the post title, add intitle: to your search query:
intitle:"how to" "keywords" intitle:"how can I" "keywords" intitle:"tutorial" "keywords"
You can even indicate the quantity of comments and search for the blog posts where a discussion is already open
intitle:"problem" +keyword +"1 comment" "tutorial" +keyword +"2 comments"
Read the articles on found blogs and especially read comments posted by other readers. If the post deals with one side of the question, people may ask related questions in the comments. If you have something to add, enhance on the post subject, or write about the solution you found that is not addressed in the post. You can even reply to a particular commenter and there is a chance he or she will come to your website for more information.
Your success in link building depends on how your idea is different and worthwhile. Try to do something that others don’t think of. Good link building is a combination of research, creativity, and knowledge. It’s about helping other people, solving problems and thinking outside the box. None of automatic submission tools can post a comment which would provide help and solution to people when they are asking for assistance. And absolutely none of automatic black hat tools can write a comment better than a live person does it.
Please, share your thoughts in comments.
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I really liked your tips. The idea to put all three searches together: keyword + problem + number of comments. Very useful indeed.
Thank you.
An excellent article! I think that the fast blog finder software is a godsend! Sure, it can be time consuming, but the links you can build are very powerful. Targeting pages with hot debate amongst the people commenting gets you right in the discussion rather than just a bland mention.
A good link building idea actually. We already do similar work for our SEO and link building plans, but dont normally use these search criteria for finding our results. Its not new as such, but a new method we havent tried, meaning its a good idea so thanks for the tips!
Keep up the good work
Great post. I think the important point is to understand also that you need to be always alert while reading blogs, try to really add unique content, give your real opinion and don’t just copy and paste a lame template.
If you in fact read what people are writing about and give a good opinion, people will reply and then you will have a valid reason to comment again and get yourself a good back link.
My theory: read - think - and comment smart.
Thanks for the tips. I never thought of using the intitle tag for searching. I’ll be doing that from now on though to get relevent blog posts for my linking.
Thanks
Andy
Really interesting tips. I also find that it helps to link to a similar article that takes a different perspective or elaborates on some sub theme of the article.
It looks as though I have been using the software in low gear. Adding the tags will mean more relevency and more pages where discussions are happening, hence blogs with updated content and google spider love. Thanks for the great tips Julia.
Hi Julia, I totally agree with your idea about link building and creativity. I love the fact that I can contact the largest websites and find give them innovative reasons for them to link to my site. That is the challenge and the fun and it’s not what they teach in seo school.
Julia , do you have any other software or projects on the horizon that we should keep a look out for?
Great posts and great software…thanks…Andrew
Automatic searching is fine. But one wrong post can look like SPAM and the spam filters show no mercy for the rest of time.
Your link building tips are great but I especially like all the info you give on how to search. I didn’t know that most search engines allow such a wide source of info that can be “targeted searched” such as search for a blog with x number of comments left. Thanks again.
Great tips. I have been using the software for a while and struggling to find decent blogs to post comments on. However, since utilising your tips above, I have found lots of blogs which relate to my niche where I have been able to interact with the blog owners. Thank you.
This is an excellent post, but I’d venture to suggest that the biggest lesson is the one that may not be obvious.
If you’re wanting to sell more products, one of the best ways to do so is to educate people and give them a valuable technique to achieve what they want to do. Whether it’s weight loss, or finding blogs more effectively, education provided free is a good way to attract visitors to your offer.
Here we have a very valuable linking strategy and technique. Anyone who follows it closely is likely to do well.
And of course to do it you need the upgraded, Gold edition of Fast Blog Finder.
There’s a discreet link within the post itself. No hyped up read H1 headline here - it’s unnecessary.
Absolutely wonderful example of the whole point of the post and a valuable technique to use. I’m sure there will be many people upgrading as a result of seeing this post.
I’ll be using this post as a model for some of my educational articles and posts in future.
Thank you for an excellent and educational post!
Great post. I did not know you could use “intitle” or “1 comment” etc. I have seen a higher success rate when leaving comments that answered specific questions. I just never thought to search for them. I have also seen success when i ask a question about the post, typically those comments also stay in tact.
Hi Julia
Thanks for this wonderful post. One of the problems when posting comments on blogs that do not use the fantastic KewordLuv plugin (like your site does) is that as soon as you use your keywords as name you comments are more in danger to be considered spam than when you use your real name. Finding blogs where you can actually help someone with your post is a perfect way to make your post more acceptable. Brilliant idea and the tips how to find those blogs and blog articles are absolutely to the point!
regards
Mike
Julia:
You bring up a great point. Often times I read blog posts and there is no substance. Quotes like “good idea”, “great post”, etc. just don’t work. When I read a post I am either looking for some solution or a different angle to look at. I am glad you propose the “think outside the box” mentality,
Dr. Rick
Your searching tips are great. I have used them a couple of times since first noticing others comment on my own blogs, and they must have found relevant posts on my site with a search. They left a relevant comment as well, so I approved them in moderation..
These tips are very useful to enhance the search capability of the program.
Could you elaborate a little on the number of comments criteria? Is the intent to ignore too few comments or to find life with a minimal amount of comments?
@ComputerDoc, fewer comments, better. In this case your comment will be placed higher and there are more chances it will be read by other blog visitors. But in fact, the number of comments doesn’t matter much. What matters is a valuable comment you post.
@ComputerDoc
It depends a little on the purpose of your link, too. If you just want a a backlink with your keywords on a do follow blog, because it helps your google ranking, then it does not matter how many other comments there are.
If you are posting for referral traffic on well visited blog and hope to get much direct traffic, perhaps even on a nofollow blog, then it is helpful if there are not too many other comments.
Juila,
Once again some really good blog comment search tips. I have noticed that I get visitors more frequently from blog comments where questions were answered.
Forums and Yahoo Answers are also a good place to solve problems and gain some traffic.
Thanks again,
George
Thanks for the article. Yes i have tried an automatic tool but of no use even to fill the fields properly. But then i think leaving a solution isn’t easy especially when you have multiple sites for you may not be an expert in any of them. I am not sure if everyone is building sites on their own or know very well about the content on their sites. Otherwise it isn’t really easy to help one. I still liked this article very much and i hope you contribute more ahead…
thanks
Shiva
Wow. I have the Gold edition and it had hit the dusty virtual shelfs out of non-use. Time to bring it back out.
I had no idea you could do those kind of searches with it. I know from forum marketing that my best responses have always been when I’ve provided valuable and detailed answers to problems people are having and then merely including the regular sig file.
I’m speculating this will be very similar.
Blog comments have now become blog spamming with most commenters treating it as one more advert. A genuine reader should try to add value to the blog post by posting relevant comments. With millions of blog out there all relevant comments can really add sizeable number of inward links.
Thanks Julia for the informative article. I agree that by leaving comments which add some value to the blog, you can get returns in traffic as well as pagerank juice. And I agree that commenting should never be automatic. However, in spite of all the precautions being taken, I find that my IP or my sites get blacklisted by some spam prevention tools. And once your IP or site is in the blacklist, it is very difficult to add comments from that IP or for that site. What would be your advice to prevent such situations?
I’ve found that its easier to get a comment approved on a blog that’s maintained by a “passionate” blogger… he would regularly seek to publish the best comments and contribute back to the discussion.
Thanks for the tip on refining searches within the software.
Gerrit
I have been reading your posts for some time now. I read A LOT of posts, but yours have quick become my favorite. There is so much spamming going on, I get hit by 50+ per day on my WP site. They have a free plugin that I use to block most, but wow I can’t believe that a person can actually make any money throwing that garbage around, which is usually just a list of links to different thing, most not related to my site, and some just plain offensive.
Providing a good quality post that can actually add value to a discussion is a perfect example of marketers helping each other. A good post is helpful to the website your posting to. A good post is also much more likely to benefit your own site. And then of course there is building links using article submissions and you do a great service to people learning about that too.
Thanks so much,
Jeromy
My experience on blog commenting are, that it can be tough to find the blogs that actually lives and ad value to people. It looks as if the Blog finder has more advanced features than I was aware of. Looks great.
I have experienced a lot of blogs, where comments and mails are just ignored for some reason. For my self I can say, that I would truly be happy to see people interact with me and my websites.
Keep the good advices comin’
This is one of the best examples I have seen of marketing your own products. Not many software companies go this far. Very useful tips. I love the software by the way. I recommend it highly at my blog.
Thanks for another ‘keeper’ blog post again, Julia.
Besides offering solutions or answers, we could perhaps also share short experiences pertinent to the blog post from which we have learned a useful fact or lesson.
For example, I recently got blocked by Akismet. Here’s how it happened: while I was submitting a comment, my internet connection appeared to hang. So I thought that the submit hadn’t worked, and clicked again. Received a reply that the comment was a duplicate. My subsequent blog comments elsewhere all disappeared into some black hole and never saw the light of day. I wrote to Akismet asking to be removed from their blacklist.
I’ve commented once since then, and that appeared to get through, so it looks like appealing to Akismet worked. But if this comment doesn’t, then I might still be on the blacklist!
I have a Fast Blog Finder and I must say that it almost saved my life! All right, it saved my time:) An easy way to find some relevant blogs. Only suggestion is that it should be a little bit precise in giving back ‘follow’ ‘no follow’ information.
@Julia - is there a master list of all these really nice and nifty search parameters that work with FBF?
That would be really handy, and for the record, the parameter to search for number of post in the blog search is awesome! 30 responses and it will bleed out the PR and less likely that your comment is human read by anyone other than the owner.
Another suggestion would be if it would be possible to add these functions into FBF, when you search there could be a box of number of comments to look for, maybe even automatically searching for blogs with 2,3,4,5 comments rather than having to manually look for search string and 2 comment, and 3 comment and 4 comments.
Also have a checkmark for commentluv and FBF would automatically append that without the need for adding it to the search. This would make it so much easier to use without the need for remembering complicated search algorithms.
I’ve been following your blog, and have bought the fast blog finder. What is good is the way you continue to add value to the fastblog finder software, with new ways finding blogs. Keep up the good work.
I just recently down loaded the free version of Fast Blog Finder, and that was one of the best decisions I have made. I wasn’t expecting the great educational articles you have provided, and all the great contributions your users and readers have provided.
I will be upgrading my free version in the near future once I complete my site renovation.
I would just like to say I’ve had some good results using this software. Of the different methods for promoting website, organic search is the best I’ve found. I’ve tried article marketing and yes it does work, the results are short lived though, requiring a lot of articles to be produced.
By using your software and building network of sites, I think the traffic will keep on flowing.
Keep up the good work.