Spammed blog post worth it?

Hi guys,

Was just wondering you're opinion on something. Say I've got a url for a PR3 blog page such as http://blogs.oreilly.com/lightroom/2008/01/the-economics-of-online-backup.html

Problem is, its nothing to do with my niche and there's so many spammy comments on it. Also, if I add my comment, it will go at the bottom of the page.

Is it worth commenting on pages like these?

Cheers,

Stu

 

If it has nothing to do with your niche, why bother?

 

.. its a backlink and also plenty of other people seemed to have bothered so just wondering if there's something to it or are they all idiots?

 

Any link is good in my book. Even if it is irrelevant to your niche. Your comment may be deleted though for being spam.

 

So if yahoo news, or Time magazine posted a link to your site, you would say "so what?"

Any link from a high ranking site, regardless of niche, is worth it.

 

- good point. So if niche doesn't matter, I guess the only question is the absurd amount of spammy posts? Any thoughts on this?

 

If the site was spammy, then no, I would not want a backlink from it.

Overall, its the quality of the linking site. The niche helps, but quality is where its at.

Matt Cutts talks about links in one of his video blogs. I can not remember his "exact" words, but it boils down to 3 links from high ranking sites like Yale, Harvard, MIT,,,,,, beats 3,000 links from spammy sites.

 

You risk getting banned ...

 

If you don't have an opportunity to get backlinks from Yale, Harvard, MIT.... Think to get 3,000 links from low quality sites..

 

if you get the link, it doesn't matter. Disadvantage of spam blog comment is, its easy to be deleted by site admins. However if it remains, link is valuable, not useless

 

You're comparing a link from a high quality site to a link from a blog with lots of spam on it. Not exactly a fair comparison.

 

You should always avoid your presense or a backlink from such spammy neighbour (or spammy content) which may adversely affect your presence & reputation.
IMO, Quality of backlink matter then the quantity !

 

Commenting on such blogs is not beneficial in any way…. You won’t get any benefit of such links, instead, increasing the chances of penalty for spammy link building.

 

to many links per a page is not good

 

Even Matt Cutts says link is a link

 

I always get those offers. What you find is that you get the link but so do 200 or so other people which makes it almost worthless in the eyes of Google.

 

Its better to have something rather than nothing.

 

Even if it is not related to your niche, it's still worth to place a comment as long as your comment gives value to the page. On the other hand if the page is already spammed it would be better to keep away from it.

 

hmmmm... ok, just an update on this as there seems to be conflicting opinions. Spammy links are not good. I tried these spammy links on a throw-away site that I've done no SEO on and am not bothered about ranking. For a 3 term keyword on on 23rd April, I was ranking 143. I put a link on 10 really spammy blog posts (each has a PR4, but 100s of OBL) ... today (26th April), it looks like I've been bitch-slapped to the back of beyond. The same term is now ranking at 621 in the SERPS. Todays lesson: spammy links in crappy neighbourhoods are bad m'kay?!

 

Banned by who?