Hi I am doing that for my new site's SEO. However, I have a question. 1: In most pages, comments are hidden and to be able to see them you have to click "comments". Does a link from that kind of hidden places of a page still work? 2: New page, pop up for comments. I noticed blogspot blogs sometims have these kind of comments sections. I mean, to see the comments, you are redirected to a new page, or even sometimes a pop up page. Is it still worth putting a comment (a link) there? Thanks
Try installing SEO quake to find out the external links in that page. If you link is present with a do-follow tag, then you can be assured that it gets the PR of that particular blog post.
"I mean, to see the comments, you are redirected to a new page, or even sometimes a pop up page. Is it still worth putting a comment (a link) there?" If such page gets index by search engines, and comments are do follow, then it will be considered as backlink. But I personally do not prefer to have comments from blogs as you cannot use anchor text and quality of these backlinks is low as they are not relevant in most cases.
for now , social bookmarking , blog commenting and forum signatures are the main way to get backlinks for me . Just look if blog , where you want to post comments , are do follow . If its do follow , spiders will crawl your site . Also i think msn do not obbey to nofollow . I do not agree with above post , the quality of backlinks often is high. You just need to find relevant blog to your site.
Blog commenting is pretty important to me. Not only it gives your site a PR boost, but when a visitor comes to read the blog, reads the positive comment, they will want to know more about what someone else is talking about in a blog. There is a direct and indirect effect to blog commenting.
I don't know why you are telling like this or where you have read this? Blog comments are do follow and no follow but they don't have negative effect.
How will that affect your site in a wrong way. .Yes, you will not get the best link benefit, but hey an anchored backlink is always good even though an unrelated post might hamper the value of the link but it is never a disadvantage.