Top Commentator - Is It Worth It?

I ran a case study on posting comments to blogs with Top Commentator installed.

Why Top Commentator? - Easy! You get a site-wide link back to your website so long as you are one of the top few people commenting. But you have to get comments approved, so mindless spamming will do no good.

Finding Top Commentator Blogs - There are plenty of lists out there compiled by webmasters. Some even sort blogs by PR, which is nice. Some like John Chow's website have wicked PR too!

Was it Worth It? - Yes and no. It is a ton of work competing with everyone else- especially on high-PR websites. What I noticed, after a month and a half, was that Yahoo! Site Explorer picked up the links. Just about all of them, from every page. I got first-page rankings within two weeks in Yahoo! on what are very competitive keywords in Google.

Google didn't care for the links. Not one bit. No ranking increase whatsoever, despite a top-commentator campaign across 50 different websites in varying PR. As the PR update didn't occur within that month, I am unsure how the campaign will affect PR.

You are welcome to share your own stories. If you want to get started, here's a list I used (I'm not affiliated with them) --
Top Commentator Blog List
And of course, more here..

 

Well if Top Commentator trick helps in improving our ranking in yahoo, then this is not a bad deal at all.

 

It's a way to reward your commentators, so it is no harm..

My blog has that policy as well

 

Do not exaggerate with this method on a brand new domain. It will bring you a hell what of backlinks in a short period if time.
Some people complain of getting in the sandbox after commenting on lots of blogs. For old domains I guess it's fairly safe.

 

I've never been sandboxed in my life. And The domain I did the case study on was literally just registered from NameCheap.com.

Yahoo! Site Explorer showed over 10,000 links within the first month and my Google ranking just kept improving during this time. The only reason I wasn't on the front page to start was because of the age of the domain. It really worked against me

 

I'm happy to hear that, zac! Sometimes we just get away with it. Sometimes we're out of luck.
Similar link building methods made some new projects disappear from Google TOP 1000 for a few weeks.
Hopefully they're now running stronger than ever

 

Thanks for sharing
I will definately use it for getting links via commeting

 

if anyone need top commentator link contact me

 

If the blog has a lot of links and posts...it is definitely worth it.
I usually post to sites who have "Recent comments" in the sidebar...it's kinda the same thing, but no competition