Building Links through Blog Comments
Relevance and Link Popularity are two main things we take into account when building links to our website. This means that we are looking for web pages that are relevant to the theme of our site and have high link popularity. Where is the best place to find those pages? Social Networks.
You can visit most popular bookmark sites, for example digg.com, and use their search to find what you want. You can enter the keywords like "link building" and the search will show you a lot of blogs related to your keywords. Select the blogs which do not have NoFollow tags.
Then sort the blogs by the most diggs. You’ll get a page filled with stories that have been made popular based on the topic you’re looking for and chances are they’ll all have hundreds (if not thousands) of inbound links to that particular page alone.
You open a blog that has more diggs and see if it is the one you can leave a comment on. When you submit a comment on other people’s blog, you are usually asked to provide your name, email address, URL and comment text itself. Did you catch the idea? Yes, you use your keyword anchor text as your name. When your comment is posted, your URL is attached to the text you entered in the "Name" field and voila… you have one more backlink to your website. For example, instead of typing "Julia" as your name, type "Directory Submission Software", or whatever your site’s top keywords are.
And… be sure to write something useful in the comment section, so it doesn’t look like 100% spam. Post a comment only if you have something of value to add to the discussion and not just to get links. Your comment will be pending for approval and blog owners are much more likely to approve your comment if it is relevant. Remember, the only cost of your new backlink is a comment. So, take a few moments to write a meaningful comment. Note that you may not insert any links into the text of your comment because you already have a link in your name.
The key thing is to add a good comment. Most webmasters understand that people make their "name" something relevant to their site and they do not begrudge them a link if their comment adds to the content/discussion on their site. You can read the comments which are already posted by others and follow suite.
Many blog owners don’t like to see keyword links in the comment "Name" field and will promptly delete the comments. Thus, you can use something like "Julia - Directory Submitter" as your name. That way it’s still personal, but you get your keywords in the link. Other blog owners may not like the link in the name and will remove it.
The lesson here is that you can get quality inbound links from blogs if you’re willing to do the work. Do not forget to visit every blog you posted your comment on and check if the comment was approved and if everything is in place (your name and link). This way you will discover the blogs where your comments are worth posting.
Searching for related blogs on the Internet is time consuming and can take hours. With Fast Blog Finder you can reduce to minimum your time for finding themed blogs and submitting comments to them. Blog Finder searches for blog posts that rank in Google for a particular phrase and makes it easy to comment on them. With Blog Finder it takes just a few minutes to submit a couple of comments.
Also, let me know what you think by posting your comments below.
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I have done all on your articles and your Fast Blog Finder software and the results is so fantastic
Thanks a lot
For a first timer to blogs, this was the most helpful article I have come across yet. You might be thinking, wow, are we talking to a dinosaur? Well, actually , yes, you are. But, I am moving from extinction to the current century today! Thanks for a great bit of information.
I recently read a report from Jon Leger that popularity is far more important that relevancy in the blog comments.
However when using your software, the results by keywords immediately bring relevancy so both Relevance and Link Popularity are easily covered.
I have a few websites in different niches and this is a big help for me as I am only starting in some niches
I did a test using the free version of this software a couple of weeks ago, I posted comments to as many blogs that don’t use the ‘nofollow’ in links as I could find. I checked the back links to one of my sites and the links are recognised and starting too show up.
This really is a powerful tool, and really easy to use. I certainly will be buying the full version.
It would be really cool if fast blog finder could search through the digg database for key phrases - then return the results for blogs that use ‘dofollow’.
Is this something that may be looked at in the future?
Would be a very very powerfull tool.
Thanks for the advice
Peter
I’ve tried various different methods for gaining backlinks, blog comments is proving a very good one. The blog commenting software is really clever.
This method and tool is a great way to get rankings. I have
found that this method alone will get a site on the first page
for a semi-competitive or long tail keyword phrase.
Thanks for a great tool!
So what you’re saying is this very act of writing on another person’s blog will make my website show up better in Google?
I usually put my blog in the website field, but it seems like perhaps it is a better idea to put my actual website in that field. Hmmmm, curious.
Hello Andree,
>So what you’re saying is this very act of writing on another person’s blog will make my website show up better in Google?
Thanks to you and others for the comments. Yes, if you submit your meaningful comments on the right “DoFollow” blogs, this will help your website improve its position in the search engines. Just keep in mind that you’re primarily leaving a comment for live persons who may be converted into your customers. Have you ever seen a search engine bot to become your buyer?
I have tried the free version of Fast Blog Finder, and is there really any reason to even display nofollow blogs? I mean, if we are going to be real honest, the software is designed to find blogs to post comments to get backlinks to our web sites.
Posting comments on nofollow web sites, won’t help at all, thus negating the very reason to use FBF (which is a really nice and quick program btw); or am I missing something, would there be a ‘good’ reason to post a comment on a nofollow blog?
Hi Tony,
I’ve recently done a case study to discover what the comments on “NoFollow” blogs are worth and whether they can hurt or help you. You can read about my case study here http://www.fastblogfinder.com/can-nofollow-links-hurt-you/ and find the answer yourself.
Hi Julia,
I read that article, and it showed that nofollow works as advertised. It was a very useful and informative article. Thanks!
Just how important is get back-links using comments on blogs from themed sites, I have read many articles on this topic, and I am in two minds about themed links, an seo and marketing guy by the name of Jonathan Ledger has actually tested this theory and written a very good insight into just this, after his testing it was found to date themed links do not make a jot of difference, maybe in 3, 6, 9 months from now google has been able to produce a more sophisticated algorithm it may. Its almost impossible for google to be precise about what is actually a themed link
Please do check out Jonathans write up i have listed it here but not as a a proper url as we don’t want to be classed as spamming this page
http://searchenginemythsexposed DOT COM
check it out
Regards David Brett
I think FBF works pretty well, with the exception of almost finding the same blogs every time. Just wondering if the program looks at a set list of blogs or something like that.
Hello David,
As I know Jonathan has already removed his report. I followed the URL and on the page I read that the report was no longer available.
Fast Blog Finder shows the blogs that the search engine returned for your keywords. When the search engine updates the index, the Blog Finder can show different blogs for the same keywords. You can vary your search query using different options as described here:
http://www.fastblogfinder.com/tutorials/search-cheat-sheet/
Great post. You covered all the bases for commenting all blogs. Very comprehensive. I am going to pass this post on to my employees and have them follow your counsel. Thanks again.
Great Post. I love the Fast Blog Finder software. I has to be one of the most accurate programs out there. I have tried many and they seem to be sooo inaccurate. Thanks for such a great product!
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