I just wanted to give a few tips to those of you who aren't experienced with blog commenting. I get nearly 90% of my blog comments approved by following a few simple guidelines that I preach to my own blog readers. Do * Use your keyword for your username * Add you URL to the website box * Read the post you’re commenting on * Leave a meaningful comment, relevant to the post Do Not * Write an advertisement for your website * Include extra links to your website (you already have 1 on the page, you don’t get credit for any more) * Post affiliate links, especially if the blog is in the same niche as your website/selling the same products * Post a random, irrelevant sentence then move on to the next blog * Post random letters/numbers The reason I bring this up is because I spent a good amount of time today commenting on blogs and chatting with authors. It may have taken me 5-10 minutes per blog post (maybe longer if they had a top commentator plugin) but almost every comment I made was approved and I learned some new things. Then I go and check my own blog a few minutes ago and marked almost 100 comments as spam. All from 3 users, leaving comments like "adsjfhajnjlj [anchor text + link] asfjkhjka." It might have taken them 5 minutes to get through my posts, but all my comments are held for moderation and every single one of them was deleted before anybody ever saw it. Therefore they learned nothing, got no links, and wasted their time. And they now have their URLs blocked. To recap, blog commenting is great for links, learning new things, and networking with other authors. Don't try to cheat the system and spam your way through blogs. So hopefully this is beneficial to some of you! Do it right or don't do it at all.
Hi.. Thanx for your guidelines. I follow most of them but I think the reason of decline of my comments are "Poor English". Is it possible that blog moderator delete comments which does not written in very powerful English?
Yes you are right that blogging should be a great way of networking with other users. But my opinion is that now we have millions of blogs used only for selling links or MFA or other strategies to get some cash.So no more blogging like it was at the begining
As a blog owner myself, it's something I've come to look past as long as the commenter actually has something to say. If you automatically mark all keyword names as spam, you risk losing some valuable connections and conversations. I have had very little issues with using my keyword as my name and I comment on a lot of IM/SEO blogs.
Really great tips. One thing i think must be mentioned in the above blog comment instructions. You must mentioned your name with surname which makes your comment more meaningful and effective. Thanks Mark Robert Internet Marketer
The keyword as your name is a tough one. It's certainly better for SEO, but makes it much less likely, at least on a moderated blog, to get your comment approved. You can also combine a name with a keyword. As an example, Mark's Wine Clubs seems to get approved much, much often than simply saying Wine Clubs....from a SEO standpoint it isn't perfect, but it's better than simply using Mark.
some time blog owner didnot allow to use your keyword and your user name they count this as a spam and didnot approve your comment
All good advice, except the first point. if you habitually use a keyword as your username, you'll be dumped into the spam box quicker than you can say 'akismet'. Comments from 'Day Trading' or 'Daytrading' just look like someone trying for a backlink. If you REALLY want your keywords in there, try and be subtle about it. Eg 'Mr Day Trader' or Day Trader Danny' or something
Good tips, I haven't been using keywords in the user name field, but maybe there are few way to slide it in as mentioned above.
Blog owners usually don't like spam, I believe that in a year or so there would be no blog to make a post with a link, because even 1% of spammers could make 99% of spam posts. Moreover, if you already have your links in blogs comments, they will come after you as you will show these sites with your back-links - and will spam. No one will get those links, authors usually delete them all and doesn't allow commenting for future.
I can relate with you here. I've had a few of these as well, and I simply don't understand how those people thought these comments would get any clicks at all, even if they were approved! If they at least make an effort to write something meaningful then it would have been useful to them.