I know that blog comments are a breeding ground for spam and there is the nofollow tag, but is anyone still using comments as a method to gain traffic?
Christine, Are you seeing a good traffic increase from this? Or have you seen Google still count the link?
I use commenting for traffic. On some high profile blogs I make insightful comments that make viewers want to see what else I have to say on other topics. On some blogs they don't use nofollow, which makes it even better.
Blog comments for the most part don't deliver any backlinks or PR benefits but if you do have something of use to contibute they will get you some traffic. Just please don't become a blog spammer!
Agreed. It does bring in very targetted traffic if you comment smartly, but I use it primarily to foster relationship with the blog owner.
Can someone please tell me how the nofollow tag works with regard to blogs? Is this the same for forums? The issue of traffic generation aside, there seems to be wide agreement that, if your goal is a good indexing of your own website's pages, it is a good idea to have inbound links from other site's high PR pages. I have been doing Google searches for forum thread pages and, although the home page of the forum may indeed be indexed and have a decent PR, the thread pages aren't even indexed in Google let alone having any PR. That being the case, if posting in forums for the purpose of getting a good indexing of one's own pages, is the goal achieved as long as the home page of the forum is google-indexed and has good PR or is such posting useless where the pages on which one is posting aren't even indexed in Google let alone having any PR? Anyone have any thoughts on this?