Build Links with Blog Comments

By: Julia Gulevich
Submitted: 2007-11-27 16:40:01
Print this article | Tell a friend | For publisher | Social Bookmarking
Rating:
 

Relevance and Link Popularity are two main things we take into account when building links to our website. This means that we are looking for web pages that are relevant to the theme of our site and have high link popularity.

Where is the best place to find those pages? Social Networks.

You can visit most popular bookmark sites, for example digg.com, and use their search to find what you want. You can enter the keywords like "link building" and the search will show you a lot of blogs related to your keywords. Then sort the blogs by the most diggs. You'll get a page filled with stories that have been made popular based on the topic you're looking for and chances are they'll all have hundreds (if not thousands) of inbound links to that particular page alone. Select the blogs which do not have NoFollow tags. Another good source to find the blogs without NoFollow tags is http://commenthunt.com/

You open a blog that has more diggs and see if it is the one you can leave a comment on. When you submit a comment on other people's blog, you are usually asked to provide your name, email address, URL and comment text itself. Did you catch the idea? Yes, you use your keyword anchor text as your name. When your comment is posted, your URL is attached to the text you entered in the "Name" field and voila... you have one more backlink to your website. For example, instead of typing "Julia" as your name, type "Directory Submission Software", or whatever your site's top keywords are.

And... be sure to write something useful in the comment section, so it doesn't look like 100% spam. Post a comment only if you have something of value to add to the discussion and not just to get links. Your comment will be pending for approval and blog owners are much more likely to approve your comment if it is relevant. Remember, the only cost of your new backlink is a comment. So, take a few moments to write a meaningful comment. Note that you may not insert any links into the text of your comment because you already have a link in your name.

The key thing is to add a good comment. Most webmasters understand that people make their "name" something relevant to their site and they do not begrudge them a link if their comment adds to the content/discussion on their site. You can read the comments which are already posted by others and follow suite.

Many blog owners don't like to see keyword links in the comment "Name" field and will promptly delete the comments. Thus, you can use something like "Julia - Directory Submitter" as your name. That way it's still personal, but you get your keywords in the link. Other blog owners may not like the link in the name and will remove it.

The lesson here is that you can get quality inbound links from blogs if you're willing to do the work. Do not forget to visit every blog you posted your comment on and check if the comment was approved and if everything is in place (your name and link). This way you will discover the blogs where your comments are worth posting.

Once you find the blogs that allowsyou keep those kinds of comments, you can greatly reduce your workload by posting only to those blogs.

I've just scratched the surface in the article presented. You can find a lot more valuable information about how to increase your site popularity by building quality one way links here: Link Building Guide

I've got a blog called SeoCombat's Internet Marketing Blog that focuses on methods to increase traffic from Google and on link building tips. You can also look at Free Directory Submitter, friendly and easy-to-use semi-automated directory submission tool that allows you quickly submit your websites to thousands of free directories.

Article source: Expert Articles

Most Recent Articles in Link Popularity category

  • Want Tons of Organic Google Traffic? - Getting Inbound Links is Crucial! - By: William Lund
    After optimizing your site for your key words you've still got more work to do to get that traffic. You need to get links. There are lots of nearly identical and well optimized web pages. Inbound links make the difference.
  • Some misconceptions about the good types of links - Part II - By: Parveenn Kumarr
    In the previous article on this topic, I covered the main types of links you want to get for your site. On the last part, I will clearly state which types of links to stay away from pursuing, and I will further explain some misconceptions about the good types of links.
  • Link Popularity Will Increase Your Page Rank - By: Praveen Kumarii
    An extremely large number of web masters are in a quandary. They have spent huge amounts on getting beautifully designed pages with the latest software and animation and they also offer the best products and services. Why then isn't anybody paying their sites a visit? Every day, thousands of websites are launched on the ever growing World Wide Web.
  • Link Building Techniques to attract a deluge of New Members to Your association Site - By: Dr. Anuj Gupta
    An excellent way to build a massive list is for a free membership site, where you offer quality products in exchange for their subscriptions. But there is not enough that you do it, the more crucial aspect in traffic generation. You need some serious actions, so that people can visit your site and Membership.
  • Link Building guidelines: How to generate a Subscriber-sucking Squeeze Page - By: Dr. Anuj Gupta
    U.S. Building is one of the most reliable Internet marketing strategies you can earn a consistent stream of income. If you have your own database of subscribers, you can message of advertising or, at any time you like... and immediately results with a click on the button!
  • One Way Links or Two Way Links? - By: Dr. Anuj Gupta
    This is a big question, plays on the mind of almost all search engine optimizer. There are many forums and blogs, where it is being discussed to make it easier for the SEO analysts to know the best way to back links. Now we all know what can more and more Backlinks mean that a web site, if its performance in search engine results side.
  • Increase Your SE Ranking By Promoting Inner Blog Pages - By: Jess Baad
    Deep links are commonly left out. Use it to your advantage and gain more traffic.
  • If You Build It, They Will Come... - By: Dolly Kapil
    On the web, building a web site is not enough. If there are no links to the site anywhere, no-one is going to visit it. The site won't even be listed in any of the search engines without some incoming links. To get traffic, you will need to do some promotion.
  • 5 Linking Strategies that Work - By: Diya Sood
    One of the most effective ways to promote your business online, especially if you use search engine optimization to build traffic, is linking.
  • Creative Ways to Gain Links - By: Mohan Mittal
    Everyone knows the importance of getting other sites to link to you and the most common way is for a reciprocal link. That is the kind of link that Click Sentries reciprocal tools address. These are great links and should always be sought after. However, there has been much discussion about Google giving less weight to a link that is recip. One of the ways to combat this is "triangle" linking but this can be very time consuming and hard to explain to new website owners