Say my website has 1,000 backlinks from blog commenting... and really no other backlinks from other sources..... Has anything heard of Google considering this "blog spamming"... and might devalue the links? I know Google cant penalize you because it could be a competitor trying to sabotage you..... or could/do they?
Dino, so long the website and comment content are revelant I don't see a problem. The traffic alone, if the comments are useful, would make it worthwhile. However, testing different marketing methods is a good idea, to see what converts best. Also consider which types of sites the major search engines rank highest for your niche.
they should not penalize you in any way, if they were to do that, that would be ridiculous as there should NEVER be any penalties for off site actions but, they could certainly devalue your links, which wouldn't penalize your site itself, but it would just make the selected links have zero value....... I'm not sure if they have worked that in to the algorithm yet or if they will, but if your site ever caught there eye for manual review (like if your site ranked well for a good value keyword) they might k-o all your links I think (they should never put any kind of penalty on the site though, that would be so wrong of them to do that)
Sounds good.... Im about to embark on a quest to comment on 1000's of blogs!!! Let the blogging begin!!!
something that can harm the competitors site, google will not punish it. (but might devalue it) If posting in blogs can make the site be punished, people will just post competitors' site on the blogs, right? in short, i dont think google will punish you by doing this way.
does google crawl blog comments (not just blogsearch google)? it seems like if those were the ONLY links you had it wouldn't do a whole lot of good... I've run link-searches on sites that I know for a fact have blog comments linking back to them, and google toolbar didn't show them.
Even if the backlinks from blogs are not considered as spam, you still will not get much benefits from those backlinks. Because you can't use anchor text in these backlinks, the number of outbound links matters, the PR of posts is not high compared to the PR of home page etc Try to get backlinks with anchor text and from relevant pages.
Personally I don't think this is worth the effort, unless you are only posting on blogs that are directly related to your website's content. Then you might get some direct traffic to make it worthwhile. These days most blog comment links don't even count as they have the nofollow attribute. It would just look spammy to have that many blog comment links, especially if you get them all at once. Each one would help very little. Even if you get 1000 blog comment links, I don't think it would be enough to rank well for most keywords. If it getting good rankings was as easy as spamming a bunch of blogs, there would be countless companies offering this service. People wouldn't even bother with other strategies. The reality is that you need to vary your strategies. Focusing one any one strategy usually isn't enough for good rankings.
Blog commenting does has it benefit and if the 1000 links is not build in a short amount of time maybe a month, then it won't be regarded as spamming. Do make sure that the links are placed on niche relevant to your site or else it won't serve much purpose. If you are into link building, try to use other methods which generally represents a vote such as link baiting that will bring more benefits rather than blog commenting itself.