How You Can Double Your Link Building Efforts
Blog commenting is becoming more and more popular as one of link building tactics. The comment author receives an extra link to his website or blog that favours the website exposure. And the blog owners are always happy to receive good comments – it's important for them to keep a lively interest to their posts.
Of course, a "DoFollow" backlink is a great reward for a valuable comment because it helps improve the search engine position. But the comment allows a reader have only one backlink and this link may have the commentator's name or nickname as the anchor text that doesn't mean much for search engines.
So why not to reward the comment author with an extra link with more relevant keywords in the anchor text? This is an excellent way to promote the readers' websites and this can be done automatically with the use of a particular plug-in!
I'm talking about CommentLuv. The CommentLuv is a plugin for WordPress that will visit the RSS feed of the blog address the reader provided in the URL field, attempt to find the last post the reader made and display it under the comment giving the reader a great internal backlink to his/her website!
Example:
Now many WordPress blogs are applying the CommentLuv plugin. The bloggers understand that it gives the readers an extra incentive to leave a comment, encourages people to add to the conversation by giving something back right away.
For the reader commenting on a blog that uses the CommentLuv plugin is great for the following reasons:
- Second link to the website/blog. CommentLuv gives you an additional link, which is more advantageous than the link provided in the URL field because it has the post title as the anchor text. If you use your keywords in the post title, it will help you to rank well in the search engine results for those keywords.
- More traffic and readership. When people look through the comments, they can see the titles of other commenters' latest posts. If the title looks interesting, there’s a good chance they will visit your site and read the post. Some of those readers can become your subscribers or buyers.
- Help with PageRank and search engine results ranking. If the blog using the CommentLuv plugin is a "DoFollow blog", the link to your last post provided by CommentLuv will also be "DoFollow". So, not only will it send the readers to your website or blog, it will also pass you some PageRank.
These advantages are really extra incentives to leave a comment, aren't they?
How to search for blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin
You may be wondering how to find relevant blogs with the CommentLuv plugin enabled on which to comment on. The answer is simple – use Fast Blog Finder or Google and type the search query like below replacing "your keywords" with your real keywords:
"Enable CommentLuv" +"your keywords"
By adding your keywords at the end of the search query, you will reduce the large quantity of blogs to blogs relevant to your niche. You can also use some of these search options to narrow and refine your search results.
For example, if I want to find the blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are relevant to the "Internet marketing" keywords, I type in the Blog Finder Gold Edition:
"Enable CommentLuv" +"Internet marketing"
By the time of writing this article I found 127 blogs with CommentLuv enabled for the "Internet marketing" keywords. 39 from these blogs were "DoFollow" and 74 "NoFollow".
Well, I get at least 39 blogs where I can comment on. It's assumed that my comments are not spam, so I can hope to get 78 "DoFollow" links to my blog (because one comment will have two links: one for the anchor text in the Name field and the second one – a deep link to the latest post on my blog)! And we all know how valuable "DoFollow" links are. Just a couple of them can considerably improve your website ranking in search engines.
Of course, I gave a single niche example but you got the idea. Now you can change your primary keywords to your secondary keyword set and find one more hundred or two of blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are worth to comment on.
Few tips from me:
- If you are going to comment on blogs with CommentLuv, make sure your blog posts have appealing titles including your target keywords. Not only will good titles attract the readers prompting them to click on your link, they will also help you rank well for your keywords.
- If you use Feedburner on your blog, you'll get a redirection link to your last post instead of the direct link to the article on your blog. You can read here how to disable the redirect.
Please, share your thoughts in comments.
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All I can say is Wow! Where has this tool been hiding? What a life-saver. I will follow your instructions in your article Julia. Thanks a million. I got work to do. This is awesome.
We have added commentluv and keywordöuv to our entire line of info blogs to make things more commentary friendly.
I enjoy using Fast Blog Finder and being able to find commentluv blogs for double the luv is a great ‘hack’.
Good condensed guide to helping publishers gaining more exposure, the one thing I have noticed with adding links to blogs is that the results can be seen in a reasonably short period of time with regards to google ranking.
This was a great tip! I have been using this technique for a couple of weeks now and the links are now starting to show up in the Google Webmasters Tool. I have really enjoyed using the full version of Fast Blog Finder. Beyond finding the blogs, I like the date and notes feature so I can mark a post that I have replied to.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve been having a hard time getting my comments approved, but I think finding blogs with the commentluv option on them might make it a little easier. Oh, and thanks for making such a sweet tool!
Kiel
Great combination of plugins…
The commentluv plugin can also be benificial by adding some changing/keyword rich text to your comments… and google likes things that update.
Actually, commentluv is not without disappointments, as many sites that use it still have not disabled the stupid nofollow, and thus I’ve gotten too happy too early many times, only to find out upon my right click, properties (or checking the source), that the links are no follow! This is a reality because commentluv is still useful to bloggers even when linkjuice is not passed. Some blog owners just want to pass the link of the commenting blogger to help the commenter get more traffic, but not passing link juice to them.
Of course, you can go through the list of commentluv blogs and hope to find the half of them (or whatever the percentage) that are “dofollow”, if you set aside the time to do that.
For me, a better indicator is to look for blogs that use the Keywordluv plugin. The purpose of this plugin is to openly reward good commenters with his own choice of anchor texts. Rather than the traditional name field being used for anchor text (and often times frowned upon if anchor text is too obvious), keywordluv blogs openly allows commentors to put in their name as “name@anchor text phrase” and the portion AFTER the @ symbol will be picked up as the linkable anchor text, fully passing link juice.
This is the only perfect plugin for this purpose I’ve seen. I hope more and more people use this so we can make the blogsphere a much more linkjuice-friendly place! =)
Yes, CommentLuv is a good plugin, although it doesn’t always link my posts correctly when I comment. KeywordLuv is even better because we can finally get to choose our anchor text without having to worry about whether or not the blog owner might be one of those anti-marketing people who will automatically delete any comments with keywords in them even if the comment is relevant.
Just curious. Is that how fastblogfinder execute the code behind the program ? I mean it will search for “CommentLuv” as well ? I am a little confuse now. If i can use “Enable CommentLuv” +”your keywords” to seach for dofollow blogs, then whats the difference between fastblogfinder and searching for CommentLuv by ourselves.
Oh btw, i do own a Gold Edition and would really like to know that it can do more than just searching for “CommentLuv” blogs
I luv your fastblogfinder btw ….
@Timmy@Construction cranes
Yes, of course, you can search yourself for blogs which use the CommentLuv plugin. But besides the blog URL Fast Blog Finder shows you the link type, Domain and Page PR, quantity of out bound links, and the date of the last post on the blog. It would take time to find all this information by yourself while Fast Blog Finder does it automatically for you.
You can use Fast Blog Finder to search for very different types of blogs and not only for those which use the CommentLuv plugin. It depends on how you enter your search query. You can read my other posts where I describe various search queries to find blogs.
Hi Julia,
Thanks for the tip. Am really glad that i can use this on the fastblogfinder tool itself instead of using google
I have also installed commentluv on my blog.If a person takes the effort to write a useful comment on a blog post, it is only fair to give a link back.Everyone needs more relevant comments on their blogs, and this is a good way to get them.
Interesting!
KeywordLuv helps you reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their site. This gives them improved anchor text, which can help their site rank higher in the search engine results.
You can now leave a comment with your name as well as a keyword of your choice here and get a PR5 link back to your site! How cool is that? People pay big bucks for that and all you have to do is comment here.
Good post on commentluv. Although my personal experience is that at least half of the commentluv blogs still haven’t removed nofollow! Now this is either by their ignorance or they are trying to have their cake (get the traffic and comments) and eat it too (not passing link juice). So, my advise is this…don’t trust just any so called commentluv sites. Be sure to check the existing posts for “nofollow” by right clicking any one of the existing comments’ commentluv-generated link.
On a brighter note, although not as popular as commentluv, keywordluv sites so far has been all “do follow” and I’m in the process of looking for the best way to locate as many of these sites as possible! =)
Thats really nice tip, and its just co-incidence that my last blog entry contains a desired key. thats really helpful for the coming postings. Thanks
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Nice tip Julia! I actually read about this about a week ago and didn’t even realize that FeedBurner has the redirect. I hadn’t done anything when I first found it but now that I came across your post, I just fixed it.
Another reason why it is so important to spend time on writing your post titles. When you comment on blogs with CommentLuv it uses the title of the post and depending upon your title, it could mean the difference between a visitor or nobody.
I was reading through some of the comments, a lot of them are very good. The whole deal with commenting on irrelevant blogs I think is a misunderstood issue. Yeah, Google probably discredits the link or if they do it is very little, but it still gives you a chance to gain a reader with your title. Either the blog author or others reading the comments might come across your comment, see your latest blog post with a great title and they could click through to read more.
I think people worry too much about it giving them a backlink and instead don’t see it as a potential way to gain a new reader.
This is a very useful & smart piece of info. What do you think if we enable “showlinkbacks” and it will show up with the blog entry (if you are using blogger). Doesn’t it look awkward when it show up YourName@YourKeywords on linkbacks?
Julia, I find that this is very interesting…will comment luv work with the latest WordPress plugin? I am using semilogic pro with WordPress and I love the rich set of plugin features but WP theme is the latest version of wordpress. I can see how KeywordLuv can be a great SEO benefit because it encourages readers to post and thereby create additional content on my blogs.
I would also like to know what other tools do you recommend for gaining good backlinks? I am very glad I found your site. You seems to be very experienced in the game of SEO. I have a site that I am working on that I’d love to get to the top of Google. Can you email me or provide some additional insight?
So far I’ve hand submitted a dozen or so articles to the top 10 databases and that gave me a huge boost but you know how tedious that can be. I am looking to reduce the amount of time it takes to get quality backlinks while gaining more of the same.
THX
@Darrell,
>Julia, I find that this is very interesting…will comment luv work with the latest WordPress plugin? I am using semilogic pro with WordPress and I love the rich set of plugin features but WP theme is the latest version of wordpress. I can see how KeywordLuv can be a great SEO benefit because it encourages readers to post and thereby create additional content on my blogs.
Please, specify what latest WordPress plugin you mean. If you mean our Double Opt-In plugin, yes, it will work with CommentLuv. In fact, those two plugins work independently from each other.
>I would also like to know what other tools do you recommend for gaining good backlinks? I am very glad I found your site. You seems to be very experienced in the game of SEO. I have a site that I am working on that I’d love to get to the top of Google. Can you email me or provide some additional insight?
We also have a directory submitter tool – Fast Directory Submitter. Using Fast Directory Submitter you can submit your website to thousands of directories. This is a semi-automated tool. You fill in the website profile form only once. The program will auto-fill the submission for in every directoty for you. You will just need to select the proper category, type a captcha code if necessary and click Submit to go to the next directory. The submission is fast and easy. A nice feature in Fast Directory Submitter is that you can enter (and you should do this) many website titles (anchor text for your link) and descriptions. the titles/descriptions will be rotated from directory to directory. Thus, your links will look more natural. You can read more about Fast Directory Submitter and download it from this page: http://www.fastdirectorysubmitter.com
Hi Julia,
I have your software and have to say it makes my life a lot easier. I bought it to help out a customer of mine and it has proved valuable indeed. I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you. One bonus opoint though would be if we could search for specific PR dofollows with the software.
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Hi ,
fastblogfinder and keywordluv is a great combination and makes it much more easier to build backlinks with anchor text, thanks for this. I also like the feature to search by language as i need german blogs. With fastblogfinder its very easy.
I’m concerned about the negative effect on SERPS of allowing comment links to be followed. Isn’t this likely to result in a drop in SERPS. Anybody have any experience with this, i.e. has installation of KeywordLuv had a negeative effect on a blog?
When people usually look through the comments, they can easily see the titles of other commentators or other posts. If titles are interesting than it can increase the chance of your visitors to come on your website in order to read other’s blogs or post their blogs. Some of these readers can also become your subscriber and buyer as well.
Hi Julia
Blog commenting is wonderful thing especially when you find jewels that use the keywordLuv Plugin.
Your program really help – especially in low competition niches this works wonders…
Michael
Thanks for all of the informative articles. They are both useful and concise, giving both instructions on what to do and WHY to do it. Your tool also looks like a great time-saver to find blogs in our industry and gain exposure for our site. Keep up the good work, and if you come up with more tools, be sure to let us know!
This is a good post on the benefit of Comment Luv which provided by a famous word press plugin. I must confess that whenever I write comment on blog I normally do not use the name of my blog in the field of Name because it does not give a professional look to my comment as well as to my business. But as you have speciall mentioned here to use blog address name in the name field so I have used my blog name in the name field of this comment form. By the way…
At the last I must appreciate that your post is unique and I find it very useful for the people who like to take it that way. Congratulation on your success and hard work.
With Blessing,
Money Maker.
thanks at all friends. At the last I must appreciate that your post is unique and I find it very useful for the people who like to take it that way. Congratulation on your success and hard work.
Hi,
Great combination of plugins.
The commentluv plugin can also be beneficial by adding some changing/keyword rich text to your comments and Google like these kind of updates.
Thanks.
Hi,
When people usually look through the comments, they can easily see the titles of other commentators or other posts. If titles are interesting than it can increase the chance of your visitors to come on your website in order to read other’s blogs or post their blogs.
I was reading through some of the comments, a lot of them are very good. The whole deal with commenting on irrelevant blogs I think is a misunderstood issue.
thanks.
I think keyword luv is a great incentive for people to comment. Unfortunatly it sometimes gets ruined by people leaving comments that really don’t say anything just to get a link. If everyone played by the rules and said something useful, interesting or funny then that would be great, and everyone would be a winner. I often get people commenting on my blog who have clearly not read a single word of the article. These sorts of commentors are the reasons no follow was invented in the first place.
Hi,
Very nice post.I really enjoy the post.If you want to double your link comment on the comment luv blog.Comment luv gives an extra link to commentator as reward for the quality comment.You should comment relevant to blog.
Thanks for the sharing.
I have a great idea of using KeywordLuv with the purpose of social surveys and promote my products in the proper way. That is really a great plugin to carry out any social researches.
When I search on “Enable CommentLuv” in Google I get 62,700 choices. This can keep someone going for some time. If you need to move a different post to the top, there is a WP-Sticky plug-in that can help. Just look under WP plug-ins. I also have found the SEO for Firfox add-on does color code NoFollow links so one can easily spy which blogs allow for link juice.
Thanks for the tips…
I believe a mixture of NoFollow and Follow links have helped my rankings..
Oh btw…you can also type keyword “Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.” into your FastBlogFinder…..This would help you find a list of DOFOLLOW blogs..
But again…do have a mixture of NoFollow and DoFollow…I swear that they have helped in my ranking…
And regarding the latest news on Google cancelling the NoFollow rules , it might be time for us to look out for LESS OUTBOUND LINKS + RELEVANCE BlOG to comment…regardless of nofollow or dofollow…
that’s interesting, I didn’t know that CommentLuv also links to the latest posts of commenters with a blog … and what’s that’s very interesting is that is doesn’t seem to put nofollow’s on the post, only on the comment of those that didn’t comment enough … although that might put some people of of course, as it opens the doors again for drive-by spammers (= the homeless of the internet
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I have used the Fast Blog Finder for about the last 2 years. i started with the free version and then upgraded.
My efforts started paying off when i started mixing the dofollows and nofollows, and not just concentrating on dofollow links only.
Don’t you think that looks a little unnatural? so the reason I like the Fast Blog Finder is that is gives you both, and allows you to make the decision yourself.
Is it true that Google has stopped counting links in comments?
-Adam
The Do Follow – No Follow debate is an interesting one. If Google is attempting to discover which sites are better based on links, then it shouldn’t be based on whether or not it is no follow. A no follow link can be from a relevant and authority site so surely this should pass some authority to the site it is linking to.
I try to aquire do follow links wherever possible, but if I can get what I consider a good no follow link I will do.
This is a great tip for finding Do Follow blogs. Like others have mentioned I believe that a person should also try to get a few no follow backlinks on high ranking sites as well just because it does look a little funny to Google if a website has all do follow backlinks and not one that is a no follow. It may actually penalize the site. Plus some no follow backlinks can actually drive more traffic to a site than do follow so that is another plus of changing it up.