1) Post only relevant dofollow blogs (as in relating to your niche) or can it be any blog? 2) Use keywords as the blog post username? (and risk being seen as a spammer) 3) Watch how many posts you come back to post to the same blog and don't post too many? 4) Does PR matter that much? cheers for any help!
A perfect link would have high PR, be on a trusted and relevant website, with the keywords in the anchor text and they would be numerous. Achieving this is very hard through blog comments. I break my comment links into two buckets. 1. Very relevant useful blogs. To comment on blogs you need to read and understand the post, so I pick the best blogs within the niche read them and comment then not care about the back link. Google follow no follow links, they just don't give much (or any kudos) 2. Recent blog posts which have 'comment luv' plugin. These are posts are usually do follow and allow good anchor text, if you search for them using the relevant search terms then you are going to get relevant posts to. To find these are simple just search google for them. So for example say you want to find good blog posts to do with SEO then type this into the search engines: SEO "Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage." This will bring up the post that google think are most trusted. SO for example that will return something like this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...he+Name+field+to+take+advantage."&btnG=Search You can also use the advanced search to limit it to blog post found in the last week to get the most recent articles. Hope this helps. Ed
Hi Ed, I think that format is only applicable if a blog you are posting comments to has KeywordLuv plugin. Does it really help in SEO using that format?
@printmatt... You are correct. If the blog does not have KeywordLuv, then using the "@" symbol is not necessary. In the cases where the KeywordLuv plugin is absent, then you can still gain SEO value by using "YourName Keywords". For example: "Joe's business cards"
I'm not sure but Nixies stated that usually the blogs which have keywordluv enabled are dofollow so you can get a backlink from them. So he was showing me a method to find blogs which do have keywordluv enabled. thanks guys.
1) I would say that by posting on "relevant" blogs, you're increasing the effectiveness of your marketing. I would not say that it is necessary though. I would say, however, that it is important to actually take the time to read the blog and either (a) leave a quality comment or (b) don't comment. With so many blogs out there, it's not hard to find something that you care enough about to have something legit to say. 2) They "keywordluv" tips left in other replies are an excellent idea. I'd love to see more blogs using keywordluv and commentluv. 3) Blog owners would probably appreciate your return, as long as you're making good contributions. I run a forum myself, and it's similar to blogs and blog comments in the respect that the general idea is to inspire conversation, which often will go back and forth, with the same user posting multiple times in response to others' replies. 4) Excellent question. I'm wondering that myself! Anyone want to field number 4 for us??
My take on PR is that it still matters, but that it is becoming less and less important as more factors are taken into consideration, and is separate from whether Google indexes your site. I think it is one of many moderate factors that play into big G's algo. However, it's a quick way to gauge how Google views your site. If you have the time, using tools such as how many backlinks G recognizes, how many pages have been indexed, how your webmaster tools metrics are looking are more important, and how you rank for your keywords. Given there is no tangible number to quantify all of those numbers and compare it to others... that's why we all love our pagerank and can't let go of it...
Thanks guys, also might I add; I assume the PR of a blog page will climb in PR as the months/yrs pass? So if you post a comment to a blog post with a PR 2 for example, in a year it will probably be a PR3 etc... Would this be correct, in some cases at least? thank you.
I think it would be better if you start with PR3+ sites.. Take advantage of blogs that allows keywords as names.. Read some notes above the comment box as some blogs provide if keywords are not allowed in the name portion..