It seems like a year ago I could just sit down and cruise through a list of blogs commenting things sort of related to the blog post just based off of the title. The comments, whether they were autoapprove then or not I don't know, but they would show up in site explorer over the next few weeks and I'd see some results from the time I had spent. Bloggers were actually approving comments with consistency. Is it just me, or has it gotten significantly harder in the current point in time? It seems like I can comment all day and get nothing but frustration out of it as everything is now moderated it seems and nothing shows up. For example, I came across a blog I was genuinely interested in the other day. There was a big long post about how it's a moderated blog and they don't care if you leave a URL so long as you use a name for the name slot and your comment actually deals with the post. Well I read the post and came up with a 2 paragraph long comment and it wasn't approved automatically of course. A week later I come back, my comments not there but something as simple as "Nice post" with spam anchor and a link is approved that was commented after mine. Has something within the blogging software changed such as wordpress or blogengine default settings set to moderate as opposed to auto approve? I have knowledge of the blackhat software and it seems like that market has expanded greatly. Maybe that is the reasoning for this.
I think the webmaster or site owners just get overwhelmed with all those auto bots that drop comment links. You can get easy 100's a day of spam, their are plugins to minimize the spam but still get some i guess. You just need to keep on moving on to other blogs i guess, doing the "Throw lot of stuff on the wall and see what sticks" formula.
That's my point though, I continue to move on to new blogs time after time and yet nothing sticks. I don't necessarily need more backlinks because I'm making a steady income and hold decent positions but I'd like to work at it more and move up white hat. It seems every blog is vulnerable to scrapebox, forums vulnerable to xrumer, and the web 2.0s to senuke. It's like there's nothing left for those honest link builders to build on efficiently. I'm not going to spend 10 hours creating maybe 20 web 2.0 pages manually because it's not going to get me up a level in the search engines. Just curious if anybody else had really been struggling as much lately as I or if you feel like things have gotten easier for you.
Well my honest opinion is google is starting to put more weight on the content quality. Look Google isn't this mammoth company by being stupid. They see all this crap link building happening and i'm pretty sure they are finding ways to counter it in their quality scores. So they see these patterns of spam back link from numerous sites, they know what site is whored out from blackhat with backlink spam. So if you find new sites or social site that are not being abused, then those are the sites you want back link from. These are my opinion and are based from my knowledge and experience, could be right could be wrong
I like to say that if you only build links for the value of the links the links will not become old - but I see what you mean! Blog commenting is not a solid and long term link building strategy. Try investing some time in article marketing, targeted anchor texts and deep linking. Blackhat should NOT be an option. Keep to the basics. Read up on Viral marketing instead. Make a link-worthy competition and launch it through social media!! Good luck
Even links from SB sites is not counting as backlink anymore. (well, some are still counted as backlinks but most are not)
I think your right, it is getting harder and is mainly due to the vast amount of people getting involved these days. Affiliate marketing has exploded, social media is everywhere, and we have to constantly check the most suitable way (In the eyes of google) to get our sites ranked higher. It is harder but Im glad its a challenge
Your comments might be going to spam queue (Akismet's fault) and most webmasters don't bother to filter their spam list.
probably due to the amount of none relevant spam comments I get on my 2 blogs, I just delete the entire queue as I do not have the time to read through each comment when out of 10 comments I will be lucky if 1 is relevant. This is why it is difficult to get links on blogs - try comment luv blogs