So I'm wondering how effective blogging and news sites are for SEO. I'm currently working in a pretty competitive niche at the moment. The top sites are PR 6's and PR 7's, the site I'm working on is only a PR 5, but I'm still taking #1's from the other sites. I started off doing comments, picking and choosing high PR pages to comment on, I did this for about two weeks and actually took #1 for one of the main keywords I was looking for. As you probably know, doing comments correctly(so it doesn't look like blatant spam) is a REAL pain in the ass. So now I've switched up to blogs where the parent site has a feed of the recent posts on the homepage. I've created probably 200-400 blogs on various sites, some of the sites would blow your fucking mind if you knew what they were. Let's just say I've gained some major authority links from posting blogs within these sites. Thing is, I haven't seen shit for movement in the SERPs, I don't know if this is because there just hasn't been an update since I started this method, or because Google is somehow discounting my method. Basically I get an article written in the form of "news" about my niche. I link to sites like wikipedia and the site I'm SEOing for in the news article, then post it. Anyone have any idea how google treats "news" for SEO? In other words, let's say just for example that I were to get an article on CNN.com that linked to my site with the perfect keyword anchor, it would almost certainly have an effect on SEO/SERPs, wouldn't it? It just seems like I'm treading water with this method even though I'm getting some bad ass links. ;\ What are you thoughts? Could there be some kind of dupe content penalty with my method because of my use of the same news article across so many sites? Google is indexing the hell out of them, I've signed up with a unique username and in the past couple weeks Google has indexed almost 10,000 pages that I've created. I'm hoping that when the next little update comes, I'll get a huge boost.
Without knowing exactly where you're posting, the links probably hold little value. I mean, I'll assume you're talking about a site where the newest posts are pushed back (into an archive, down a few pages - more out of the sights of SEs), sorta like Digg where front-page stories slowly get pushed back into nothing-ness. The link from the main-page itself is not worth anything (well, very little), once it's off the front page. The best part about getting your news story on there would be subsequent links; links from bloggers who liked your story.
If you mean news in the sense of press releases.. I would say press releases do have an SEO value. I have also used dofollow social news sites to get good ranks for 'decently competitive' keywords. But if these news sites nofollow or your pages are still not indexed, you won't see a benefit
Indexing pages and coming on the top of SERP are two different things. If sites thast are currently on the top SERPs are more authoratative than yours, it will be difficule to dislodge them.
I don't think it has to do with the method of obtaining "the link", it how long the link will stay in place. I stopped doing news becauses the links weren't there in 3 months. Blogs, forums, ets. that have the content inplace always, is therefore good. So I look at this now as links for the "anchor text" issues (site branding) and a links for obtaining Page Rank.
good to see blog commenting brought you success. i have done the same with good success as well so this method of link building does work. however, focusing on finding relevant topic blog articles, reading the topic, and writing an on-topic comment is extremely time consuming. but if you have the time, its a good link building method regarding your new set of blogs not helping you any way with SERP ranking, they are all new blogs and will take some time for you to get benefit out of them. given that they are all made with unique content
Blog comment should Do-follow. I got lost 300 blogs comments all blog's comment link used no-follow. So carefully do.