Hello Guys, Most of the blog comments show in a differnt window, so do they even get crawled ? Once you click on 'Comments' , it usually goes elsewhere and shows the comments, do these pages get indexed?
Blog comment pages do count as long as the links are not NoFollow. Contributing to a blog is a great way to build backlinks as long as you are not spamming the blog!
Well ofcourse, I would never spam. Its the wrong way to approach building a presence in the long run. Wouldn't want people to have a negative view of my site. But if I just build liinks without looking for "do Follow" blogs, its still good right !!! It might not have that back link value but its better to have precense in related content rather than from unrealted blogs. or should I not even post comments in realted blogs if they use "NoFollow" ?
No man, comments were created to build relationship, and not just to build inbound links, Comments are great way to get traffic to your website even they are not followed, also a great way for online reputation as well. Cheers Lucio
Yah, it is good to look for "dofollow" blogs, but if you aren't spamming, and you are adding to the discussion on blogs that are related to your blog, then people will want to check out your site because you provided insight and something more than "nice post! thanks"... Although posting on "nofollow" blogs won't help your search engine rankings, it can be a great traffic generator nonetheless.
I feel funny when I start reading the reply on your questions. Link on blog comments do count! I used it to build my blog till PR2. If you don't believe it, you can try to check the backlinks on secretsofunlimitedwealth dot com I use comment to build over 2000 links, so it does count but not all blog counts. The blog that will link to your site when you comment is called the DoFollow Blogs. They install special plugin on their plugins that make their blogs linking back to others when people comment. The list of 200 DoFollow Blog is at http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/ But you got to remember this when you comment: "Don't use keywords as your name and just insert your link in your comment" They won't accept these comments because it destroy their blog reputations and hurt their page rank as well. Use your real name and give valuable comments. They will approve your comment and you will have a link!
Blog Comments do indeed work. Rather than finding only do-follow links and adding comments from these blogs i'd suggest mixing it up with commenting on both do-follow and no-follow sites and using a mixture different anchor texts! This will look more natural to google. Make sure you always add value though!
I found many blogs that have nofollow on comment's links, even if they ask for your website. Then what's the point? Because I don't think visitors will come to your website just because you posted a comment to that blog.
a good good program for this is "comment kahuna", its free and you can also do a keyword serach as well as check what PR the blogs have
Only comment went you knew what to talk about and do comment professionally. So it not just attract the blog's owner to visit your site back also can create potential reader came among the commentators.
So the verdict is that blog comments do help but in the following form: 1) Must be DoFollow to count as a backlink 2) Link weight might not be high but it adds up over time. 3) Post useful comments, not just to get the link 4) Try to use a variety of anchor text, not obvious ones that show that your are only trying to get links. Is this all?
If you are going to make comments on blogs for the sake of commenting I would not be concerned about the nofollow tag. Commenting on NoFollow blogs that are closely related to your subject matter can help build your brand and increase traffic. The only downside is that they don’t count as back links, which is not a bad thing if they are helping in other ways!
Yankee, sorry mate, I disagree. Any good colaboration will bring visitors to your website/blog. If you use rightly. If you comment cleverly. I've got tons of traffic from online social engagement participation. Cheers Lucio
Search for established blogs similar or same to your subject and post quality comments. In that way you can grab backlink, also maybe some new visitors.
yes they count if they are dofollow. look at the source code of the blog and search "nofollow" if you find it there for comments, then that link will not count. otherwise it will count as a backlink. how much benefitted you will be from that link depends on how related that blog is to yours, how many outgoing links that site has, and what is the PR of that site. that site's SERP for ralated keyword also counts