Yes link building is very touch, I think most of us spend more time on link building than other developing work.
I have read that Google start fighting against blog commenting. It was written in the official Google blog. They decided to count it as spam and said that blog commenting is nothing but decreasing the quality of blog posts and web in general.
Great Just a couple of tips : 1) Try building more relevant niche-specific backlinks as the caffeine update expected in Jan is supposedly going to disregard all irrelevant backlinks for SERP placement purposes. 2) Hopefully you have commented on Dofollow blogs. 3) Its a nice practice to ping every page after you've left a comment so that your comment link is crawled over and noted quickly by Google. So what you're trying to say here is, if the blog owner hasn't nofollowed his comments section, making a comment is going to get us in trouble?? That's debatable but not practical.
I read that too. It was on the Google Webmaster Blog. It said that if you make your comments like this, then it is bad. Thanks! <backlink> <backlink> <backlink> <backlink> <backlink> And besides, you cannot get hurt by inbound links. Then I would just put my competitors on spammy link farm pages and watch them fall.
can you give me an example of how to do this... do you ping just the post you commented on.. ping the top level blog? what ping service do you use?
It takes 3 months for Google to index your links? I really don't think so. It takes 3 weeks. Maximum. Yeah, I'd also like that link. I'm going to start commenting on a lot of blogs and I assume a blog post about blog commenting shouldn't hurt. I'm a bit negative to your second point. I've actually read that your website may rise in the SERP by getting nofollow links too. I do not have a source at the moment, but that's what I've heard and read. You ping the post you left a comment on. I would advice you to use three or four ping services at the same time just to make sure that Google actually visits the blog. Try with Ping-o-Matic, PingMyBlog, Pingler and a lot more. Just perform a Google Search for the words "ping blog" and you'll come up with a few pages of ping tools you could use. Even though they're all the same - it's good since it's not even your blog... so don't be afraid of getting banned!
Thanks, sydzapp and sweely. I didn't know about that. But can't it get the blog owner in trouble if you ping them too often? If I left three comments on a blog and ping each page three or four times, wouldn't they get banned by that ping service? Seems a little grayhat to me.
I am actually getting tired of google ruling the net and making the rules. Oh sure you can add adsense to your site but you are totally unable to do anything to promote it. Its really getting old , Am I alone on this? Sad they are the only game in town. Google is like the fed gov too many rules and not enough options.
Of course they get to make the rules. Our sites are being index on their servers. Google isn't violating anyone's rights, they're just making things a little more difficult. I think their rules are more lenient than the federal government's, Chazman80, or at least they make more sense But that discussion doesn't belong here.. Anyway, Google has a responsibility to its users (that includes us) to bring them relevant, high-quality content. They'll remain the big dog in town until someone can do what they do better than they do it. And, the only reason Google has all these rules in the first place is to counter blackhat and grayhat techniques that lower the quality of what Google tries to supply its users. If you ran Google, you would probably be pretty strict too.
I honestly don't think they would get banned. I mean, as long as you ping different posts there shouldn't be a problem.
Find a REALLY popular blog post and say something controversial, you'll get a steady stream of clicks for weeks Being relevant is hugely important too which has been said a few times already on this thread... commenting on blogs is so boring though, ah well...
It is really tedious. How do you all handle it when you're commenting on behalf of several clients at once? For example, I will get a list of dofollow blogs and comment on the blog for the client where the subject matter is the most relevant. This keeps the comments niche specific but can be difficult when I'm trying to bill clients. Advice?
I used to do 50 blog comments, 30 forum posting, blogs updating and article submission. How busy was I? Link building is a hard work for sure.
Welcome to my day! I am always checking out my favorite blogs when I wake up and always leave comments on the newest posts, and then I check RSS feeds and aggregators and then I just surf the web looking for new articles to comment on. It's not easy but it's the best way to gain tons of backlinks FAST!