Does commenting in blogs produce backlinks

I've been reading a few blogs with topics related to my website. Occasionally I comment and put my URL in the comment form. I notice most of the blogs have a rel="nofollow" tag attached to external links going to commenter's websites. For pagerank purposes is it even worth commenting on blogs anymore?

Thx,
Mike

 

no, if they have rel="nofolow"

 

Not going to transfer PR if they use nofolow but it is still a good way to get some traffic.

 

I think google counted the comments on blog as backlinks. But if the blog is no follow it can still be a source of traffic.

 

Regarding your question i've read some interesting article

http://seoblackhat.com/2007/05/08/nofollow-and-how-google-really-verifys-links/

Here’s what Nofollow Should be. It should be a way for publishers to tell the search engines that they have not audited the link and can therefore not vouch for it’s integrity. It should not be a way for publishers to tell the search engines that compensation was received for the link nor should it be a snarky inside joke among search engine geeks (ie, “I linked to you but nofollowed - chuckle, chuckle”).

If you have verified the link and you are putting it on your site, do not put a nofollow on it. It’s bad form.

Now, on to what Google is doing to Verify links. Because Google has so much market penetration with Analytics and the Google Toolbar, they can look at a link and verify it’s integrity (to some extent) by how many users actually click the link. If a link is relevant, it will have a higher clickthrough rate than one that is not. If a link is hidden or obscured, it will have a lower or almost non existent click through rate. In this manner, Google is using user behavior to verify the links.

And when you think about it, this really makes more sense. If a link is tagged “nofollow” but people keep clicking it and continue to surf when they get to the destination site, then who are you gonna trust? The webmaster who may not even know that his CMS put up a nofollow? Or the millions of users who click the link and seemed, at least algorithmically, to enjoy the content?

The answer is pretty obvious.

 

I do have many backlinks from my comments on related blogs.

 

IF your going to spend time commenting blogs for backlinks prefer the ones that don't have the nofollow tags (but they are very few)

 

i got my site indexed in a week using nothing but comment spamming.

i think it is a very effective backlink creation tool although its not a long term strategy

look to build good strong links because there is a reason to not because you dropped a comment on someones blog

 

But remember, PageRank isn't God. The whole point is to get traffic, so if they blog is relevant and you really have something to say, why not post? Chances are, you'll get traffic anyway, even if it does nothing for your silly PR.

 

I agree with much of what has been said.

You may get some trackback traffic which may be worst more than any increase in your backlinks.

Its a case of more of everything the better.

 

I agree about what's been said too, if the blog or post is on theme with your site it's still very worthwhile to leave a comment or better yet--a trackback (if the blog displays it). I still get decent traffic a year or so later from all the trackbacks I've got displayed on other blogs. They're nofollowed, but who cares.

The key is to make a very relevant comment, and a juicy blog title (if it's a trackback).

 

if there is not nofollow, it will help you but you must be careful. G is very clever. if you have so many links from blog comment, G may consider it a blog spam and G may punish you because of spamming

 

No follow will not pass any PR to the referring site. Google recognizes and respects No Follow. I am not sure about other SEs.

 

Yes, of course it does. Any link pointing to your site is a backlink. As for the quality and value of the link, that's a different conundrum.

 

for traffic may be but for pr as he said, no - my blogs have commenting available but no nofollow so its good to comment here but sometimes people take advantage and just post crap for this type of advertisements and they decide to use nofollow for that, you cant really blame them

 

No there are no back links in comment with blog if Google but yahoo and ask still.

 

Its better to get reviews for your site in the post itself rather then commenting on the post.

I got 40 reviews some were natural and around 10 I requested the bloggers to do a review for my site.

They are bringing good traffic and also helping in SEO.

 

yes, most blogs have the no-follow links, but then not all search engines stops at no-follow! so you may get some benifits after all!

 

I agree with most of what people commented.
I own a number of blogs running on Wordpress and there is a plugin that removes the 'no-follow' attribute. So in some blogs (like one of mine) comments give you backlinks.
Many blogs use a plugin named Top commentators. They normally display a link to each of the week's top 10 commentators.
Getting into that list will surely give you a good backlink on each of the blog pages for a week.

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