In my quest for more links I am looking at blog commenting I have been offered a service to do this but the person offering to do it says it cant be done using a keyword as the link ? They want to use just any name like Fred or Johnny and put a link on that So I am not sure what the value in SERP terms is for links on unrelated words or names.
Interesting - that's a very good question. My guess (and I'm no expert) is that it wouldn't have any big value in terms of SERPs. However, it could still bring you backlinks and pagerank in general - which can still be helpful. It just won't help you rank better in whatever keyword you are gunning for. Again, I'm no expert, that's just my $.02 on it.
well, it still provide PR juice. And using a normal username can easily get approved than using a keyword as username
Given that my objective is SERP I am concerned that these type of link might not be worth much. particularly in the context of paying someone to do the comments. I would be very interested to get more responses on this question from any one who feels they can contribute to this discussion.
Hi Grumpy, If you are looking at your SERPs, then you are right that these kinda links would not help you much. I found an article, which may help you to clear your doubts. http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/17/1/Anchor-text-explained/ Enjoy reading
That will still be a backlink and will still pass PR. however, you will not get benefited same way as you would have been with anchor text. some blogs are very closely moderated and owners won't approve any comments with commercial keywords in the comments for which probably the person selling you comments wants to do it with name instead of anchor for high approval. since it is a wise idea to get a mixed link building campaign, if you get few comments with a name instead of anchor pointing to yur site, this will create diversity in your link building and will make your link building much more natural. however, i would keep thins kind of backlinks at a minimum level.
agreed i think its spammy spam spam n i dont think it helps on serps... i dont think google will appriciate such a thing... but yea its a place to post... try it n let us kno how you get on... id be interested to find out if a comment would help... i doubt it will but yea, miak...agreed... id say it may help ya PR... peacex
I think it provide more benefit on boost PR but when use proper keywords on relevant blog it may also better for your SERP traffic.
i have been doing comments on my username on arround 600 pages. I can say that, until I started doing this, I had arround 1000 pages indexed out of 12 000 for one of my web directory. After doing it, I can say all my pages are indexed, and I get tons of searches daily for an infinite words, and keyphrases. I am no expert, just saying that I GUESS it helped my serp rankings, as it was the single link development i ever did. Also for 3 weeks, i get arround 200 searches for " directory " from live . So I guess it helps, at least it helped me .
Do you another question. What is the value of a comment with your name and different anchor text? E.g. <a title="teste1">max</a>
it cannot be possible as there would not be any problem in entering any of the anchor text in the signature of the forums or even within the post itself......
It will help your main domain page just because you're getting another back link for it - so this is worth doing if you're getting a comment on a) a high google page rank blog and b) a blog that relates tightly to your niche and/or main keywords. Some blog mods are a little bit flexible and will allow you to use a keyphrase as your username - but it will take some intelligent discernment to make that type of judgment call - probably not easily outsourced. Dan
Blog commenting works effectively if you use your chosen keywords as the anchor text, i wouldn't bother with it if you can't use your keywords as the anchor. Jason