Link Building by Blog Commenting Part 1 – Is That Blog Worth Your Time?
This is part one of a three-part series of posts that covers some of the key things to look for and follow when posting comments on other people’s blogs when you’re building links to your own website.
First of all, when it comes to blog commenting, relevance is key. Commenting on a blog post or article relevant to your niche with a comment that illustrates your knowledge or expertise in the area and adds value to the original post is a great way to entice website visitors to click through to your own website – and greatly increases your chances of seeing your comment approved by the blog owner too.
But when it comes to blog commenting for SEO purposes, finding the best post to place your comment is where a lot of people come unstuck. Where do you start?
In addition to the above, there are a few other factors that should to be taken into consideration before you post that comment. Things such as the PR value of each page, the number of outbound links on the page, the number of comments already being displayed and whether the blog uses the nofollow attribute for comment links are all important factors that need to be taken into consideration before you hit that ‘Submit’ button.
As a guide, a page that has a healthy PR value with fewer outbound links and has a minimal number of comments already placed would be the ideal candidate, and providing they are in some way related to your own website or industry and don’t nofollow their links would be the perfect page to post your high-quality comment.
There are various tools out there that will give you this information at your fingertips and recommend a tool I use all the time as an SEO Consultant – SEOQuake. It will show you the PR of any given page and even highlight nofollow links so you can quickly tell whether a blog post is worth commenting on as part of your link building campaign.
The Mozbar will also give each page a ‘MozRank’, which is a good guide as to the quality of the pages based on the number and quality of inbound links, which could be used to help you in your decision. You can find more about this at http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/mozrank where you can download the toolbar too.
Next week I’ll be covering a new method I’ve found while using SEO Quake to help you find the best post within a particular blog to submit your comment for maximum SEO benefit for you.
July 3rd, 2011
Thanks for adding this article was once a wonderful read, I hope to be back in the future to catch far more of your postings.