Hypothetically speaking of course. What's a good asking price for letting someone comment on a PR3 blog with a link for a U.S. domain? I'm thinking of selling (3) links a piece on (8) of my PR3 posts. PLEASE DO NOT PM ME because I won't be ready to any kind of deal for atleast a month or two. I'm just curous what you guys think about providing such a service for profit. J
Letting someone comment on the blog? Comments are worthless for seo and I wouldn't pay $2 for that link. Rather than selling comments, sell incontent links within the posts and you will get more.
Correct me if I'm completely wrong, but... since when did blog comments become worthless for SEO? I guess I could sell incontent links, but trying to fit (3) in my post without sacrificing quality and content might be kind of rough.
Okay, if you think blog comments have SEO value, please show me a site ranking for something competitive due to blog comments. If you sell related links you can easily work the content around putting them in the blog posts - if neccessary add another paragraph around each link to make it fit. Obviously if you want to sell to whoever will pay rather than whoever has a related site this is going to be harder.
They didn't become worthless - but y would u pay to comment on a post in a PR 3 blog when u can comment for free on a PR 6 post on a PR 6 blog?
Well, all comments on my blog are moderated. Also, for webmasters looking for the niche that I'm in may have a hard time finding blogs with PR 3. I'm sure you can find a PR6 blog anywhere for SEO and web related content to comment on, but there's not much SEO value for someone with...say...an iphone related site.
A text link is a text link to a search engine, Google doesn't register something as a comment and render it 'obsolete'.
I am not sure , you have right, a text link with relevant text in a high PR. relevant site or blog is something , that help your site. and most pr. of one of my sites, is mostly from blog comment.
Yeah, I don't get where the idea "blog comments don't count for SEO" comes from. Then I guess it would make signature links obsolete too right? I don't think so.
You can refer the price Buy,Sells or Tarde subsection - Service. Leaving comment normally wouldnt have high price. I do this service as well, only $0.30 per comment.
I don't think many people would pay for a link in a comment. When there are so many free blog sites out there...
There is no doubt that Google can identify that links are from comments, but there's no saying they are devaluing them.
Do you honestly think google can't tell what links are in the comments sections and which aren't? Given the fact that if a link is in the content of the actual post, its editorially given and placed there by the author/owner of the site. If its in the comment section then 95% of the time its spam with no editorial value. Why wouldn't google trust the first type more and devalue the 2nd? If you don't think so, then you're wrong. Of course not many people here will admit it as they want to sell their sig links here and if people realised they were buying snake oil then that little racket would grind to a halt. Every time someone says these methods work for seo I say show me proof of a site ranking for something competitive using those tactics - not once has anyone been able to do so. Does that not tell you something? If it was so easy to do, and its free, why are people not dominating the serps using it?
I think John Chow charged $30 a month for that privelege. Of course, his blog had a higher PR at that time. But, he is also banned from Google if I remember right. What I suggest is that you allow dofollow links for your more faithful, thoughtful and relevant commenters. Blogs are a two-way street. They must have some value. Otherwise, why would Google et al go through the trouble of slamming Nofollow down all of our throats.
Well google goes on about nofollow in general, I honestly think blog comments have so little value they are effectively useless. I would rather have one pr3 editorially given, in-content link than 100 blog comments. The time it would take you to get the blog comments you could have used to get a good link elsewhere so they are useless - not worth the time taken to get them. Also Google are not going to come out and say what types of links they count and which are devalued.
Well Vic, commenting on blogs is a method of getting backlinks in future posts. If you take the time to add to the quality of a blogger's post, they are going to take notice. Sometimes you can point out a flaw in the post and get an accredited link in an update to the post. Like I told KonichiJ, blogs are a two-way street.
99% of people are not adding quality though, the only thing they are adding is a spammy backlink. For the 1% actually adding something of value, their time would be better spent elsewhere. Why spend 15 minutes properly researching and writing something that will add value, on a 1 in 100 chance of a backlink at some point in the future? I don't doubt if you do it properly you will get a few links, but there are way better ways to get backlinks with less time wasted.
I am talking about networking with other bloggers, and you are still looking at it terms of getting one or two backlinks. It is not only about the links. If you go in with that type of mentality, then you will get what you deserve. What makes blogs a high spam target is the interlinking between a network of blogs. Your goal is to get into the network and not just a trivial link here or there. Is there a lot of time spent in acquiring those links? Sure there is. But no pain, no gain. You even get out there on the Nofollow blogs as well. In fact, just ignore whether they are dofollow or nofollow. As for 99% of comments being spammy cookie cutter 'Friend. I like your post' one-liners, that is probably not too far off the mark. That is probably in line with 99% of the blogs not being worth your time to even comment on in the first place.
Hey Vic, looks like someone here knows what they're talking about I also think your shipman sig is alright...still laughing man.