Comments on: When DoFollow Blogs Can Hurt You

By: real estate

real estate — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:10:23 +0000

I totally refute the April eleventh post by username (web design) There are many variables and many reasons why page rank could be lost. The very weird assumption that linking to a commercial website from a blog is somehow harmful, has to be one of the cookiest theories I have come across. It’s pure nonsense with no evidence to back it up at all. Not only that but common sense would tell you that it’s an utterly absurd proposition.

Keep building quality links and don’t sweat the small stuff.

I own about 140 sites and the main one is in the real estate sphere. If ever I slip in the search results for one of my phrases such as real estate or australian real estate, then I build some new backlinks and voila….I climb straight back up the charts.

Andrew.
PropertyNow
Australia

By: John Morgan

John Morgan — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:14:04 +0000

leaving comments short as a few words just for links is what irritates me the most. Spammer’s are ruining it for the legitimate comment posters. If everyone left legitimate, real comments even for backlink purposes, the “NOFOLLOW” tag would probably have never been created or needed. I feel obligated to AT LEAST skim the article before commenting, and you know what? I have read many full blog posts after starting to skim it, because I either find it interesting or I learn something from the post.

By: Darren from Automotive News

Darren from Automotive News — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:10:22 +0000

I agree with Nick, i manage a few blogs and am still amazed at the number of pointless and thoughtless replies that come from it. It really doesn’t take long to read the post and form an opinion. When commenting on blogs i always read the blog first and write a response that is valid to the post. Also as Susan points out, i have heard you can request Askimet to remove you. So far i have not had the need to do this…

By: Internet Marketing Blogs

Internet Marketing Blogs — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:39:06 +0000

Yeah being greedy at dofollow blogs may hurt! Its always good to leave comments that can help your SEO! Also don’t leave multiple comments at several of a bloggers different blogs on the same day. if you hit the all on the same day, with the same url, you will be reported by Akismet.

By: nick@website redesign

nick@website redesign — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:38:55 +0000

Here is my take on blog postings. First and foremost, all comments should be relevant to the conversation/posting. Why people can’t take 20 seconds to read the blog and develop an opinion or thought is beyond my imagination. secondly, i don’t think its ridiculous to receive a link back to the commentors page, within reason. Of course i say within reason because 6 links in a comment is absolutely ridiculous. Quality responses should get a quality link, seems pretty simple to me. What do other users think of my thoughts?

By: SEO Blog

SEO Blog — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:03:29 +0000

Great post I must say and truly I discovered many input from it. But there’s a dangerous thing in commenting activity, if we have (you may call it) enemies, and those enemies commenting in dofollow blogs everyday (spamming like a crazy) using our name and link. This will certainly harm our name and link to be flagged as spam links, how about this? How to prevent this to happens? If this already happened how to fix it?

By: RJ@Private Label Rights

RJ@Private Label Rights — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:54:43 +0000

I don’t see how incoming links from blogs can hurt you, unless this, in itself, is your sole, or prominent, linking strategy. Links from blogs can be great — dofollow or nofollow — while Google probably won’t give you any “love” from nofollow links, other search engines will. However, if you’re relying on blog links to be your one-shot link building strategy — you’re making a mistake on several fronts. In order to be effective, especially if you’re going after a term like ‘web hosting’ (as per your anchor text), you’re not going to have any sustainable results unless you follow that keyword industry’s norms in terms of building links.

By: Susan@Free Wordpress Themes

Susan@Free Wordpress Themes — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:22:41 +0000

I find this post one of the most interesting on the subject of dofollow blogs. Misuse can block spam comments, but helps protect further spamming in the community. If one does feel that they’ve been “wrongly” seen as a spammer, I do think by making a large number of valid comments approved by webmasters can reverse the spam blocking or actively requesting askimet to double-check their findings, you can sometimes be removed from that list.

By: Web Design

Web Design — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:39:02 +0000

Recently due to a fall in my ranking for one of my main keywords, ‘Web Design Company’ led me to investigate the issues that could lead to a website’s fall in ranking in detail. I have a feeling that if a large proportion of your links are from blogs then this could actually harm your rank. I wonder what others feel. This is not commonly agreed. However I have reasons to believe that this could have been the reason for my fall from page 1 on Google to Page 3. I think this applies only if you are linking from blogs to a standard commercial website. If you get links form blogs to other blogs, then this will be fine.

By: jenny@free credit report

jenny@free credit report — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:56:32 +0000

Useful post. I do agree and want to emphasize that it’s all about not being greedy with getting links all at once. The best way to do it really is to have a consistent plan of locating quality sites and posts, writing quality posts, not trying to get too many urls than the blog prefers, and just do a couple of those a day, consistently, and before you know it, you’ll have 500 QUALITY links in 6 months! Consistency is the key to link building in my opinion. Most people will not do it consistently…and if you do, you will beat them. =)