Effective Blog Commenting to Increase Page Rank
It’s amazing how many people do not know the principles of blog commenting. The concept of dofollow may be a fairly new concept – especially to those outside the SEO community – but if you don’t pay attention to this very important attribute, your blog commenting strategy will be for naught. It depends somewhat if you’re after traffic or better page rank, but my guess is that a lot of people are commenting for the page rank exposure, rather than the traffic (which can be slight). What other explanation can there be for the litany of people posting comments with stellar anchor text on a PR 0 blog that has nofollow for comment links? Obviously, these aspiring marketers have no idea that their links count for nothing.
So every blog commenter should devise a good strategy for commenting on blogs in order to get the most page rank value. Here are the main commenting tips:
1. Write a useful comment. Take as much time thinking about writing a comment as you’d think about writing a paragraph on your blog. A comment needs to be tailored to the post. Yes, people are desperate for comments, but vague comments get thrown out – like “Great post. I like your style.” (just wait for some smart a*s to write that comment on this post.)
2. Find a list of blogs in your niche. It’s recommended to go to a dofollow blog directory and find dofollowers in your niche. Narrow down those dofollow blogs by pinpointing the blogs with the highest page rank (in the Google toolbar, SEOQuake plugin, or other method).
3. Seek out blog posts that already have a good number of backlinks. Just because the blog’s homepage has a decent page rank doesn’t mean that every blog post will. There are cases where an internal blog post can have better rank than the homepage if that internal page gets a lot of links. Note: if it’s a new post, page rank won’t show up in a toolbar, but trackbacks will show up in the comment section. Also, the number of comments signifies its overall popularity.
4. Use Google reader or other RSS reader. This is a WAY better way to organize links than through standard browser bookmarks. Can’t recommend this enough. How many time have you gone to a browser bookmark only to find that the same frontpage post is still sitting there? Using a reader will organize posts based on their freshness. It’s easier to hop around between blog to blog to find places to comment. Really, commenting off a reader should be one of your daily marketing strategies. Whenever you find a blog with a good home page rank and dofollow comments (this is usually advertised), grab its RSS feed.
5. Subscribe to a thread when you comment. Someone might respond to you and then you can add another link and add to the discussion.
6. Look for sites that activate Commentluv, as this will add a link to an internal page. If you add Commentluv to your own site, you can choose which page to list. Otherwise, it will list your most recent post – which means after you post you should head over to your Commentluv site list and make another comment.
7. Find Top Commenter sites. Another plugin will show a blog’s top commenters (sort of irritatingly misspelled as “Top Commentators”). Often, it only takes 2 comments to make it to the list. Even sites that have nofollow enabled in comments will have dofollow for the top commenter list, so you shouldn’t always stay away from nofollow sites.
8. Make five comments a day, at least. This means you have to have a pretty big RSS feed list, because you can’t make five comments a day on the same two blogs. Over time, these comments will really build up. Added bonus: many of these comments will show up in your Technorati profile, improving your Technorati rank.
December 15th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I have been doing this for a while and it has been working for me. It gives you a lot of traffic and subscribers. But I comment at least 30 to 40 times a day. It has been working though.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Dofollow is helpful in comments especially on the topic is SEO. More readers will subscribe and join in on the commenting.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Google Reader is a must to survive with so much information to track on the web.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Excellent post!
A couple more points:
You don’t necessarily have to link back to your main page. When you comment, you can provide a deep link if you prefer.
You don’t necessarily have to use your actual name in the name textbox. It’s better to use the keywords that match the link you’re providing.
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:42 am
Wow..these are great tips and you know what? I am using this technique to get traffic and intensify my visibility in search engines. Good work in relaying this valuable info. I salute you
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:19 am
Larry,
A lot of people use the name field to stuff in some keywords and while I guess this is good for SEO, I prefer just using my name.
I hate it when I get comments on my blog posts by people that call them selfs things like ‘cheap domain names’ or ‘buy xyz online’
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Blog commenting is a lot more powerful than most people think, even those that know about it.
I just got a brand new site to number 2 in Google for 500,000 competing pages with about 10 comments and a few trackbacks in less than a month!
I’ll have to wait and see if it stays there though…
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
An absolutely important aspect in pagerank and building a following. I have published a couple of blogs that really talk exactly about the importance of commenting.
December 31st, 2008 at 9:51 am
Really nice tips
January 1st, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Thank you for the helpful post and comments. I have been blogging for about a year, but have not given much thought to the comments until now.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
The same with us we try to comment on various sites to help build our backlink count and exposure as well. While 5 a day is a good recommendation we also try to aim abit higher around 50 a day.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Great post. Using these methods to build your site up is a good idea but even more so blogging itself is about interaction so reading and commenting is key.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:22 am
informative article! great tips to increase traffic and pr of a site….
January 14th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Great Feedback! I saw my Technorati authority jump from 20 to 50 to 130 in the span of a month using many of these same commenting tips. Keep it up!
January 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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January 17th, 2009 at 9:21 am
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February 7th, 2009 at 9:27 am
excellent post..although 5 per day will help you should aim at 20-30 per day, once you have a routine these comments are very quick to produce. 30 comments per day should only take 30mins or less once you have a routine.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Are you planning to blog more on this topic. I would like to learn more.
February 17th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I have started commenting on blogs now partly for back links and partly for creating networks with other bloggers, it has started to show the benefits.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
This is great article! Hopefully my commenting campaigns will pay off soon. Thanks for this! 2,000 thumbs up!
March 4th, 2009 at 3:24 am
People are talking about posting 30-40 comments in a day but we should keep in mind that posting relevant and good comments can bring more traffic only.
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Whenever I land in English websites which givbe advice on seo, I am really happy I can learn something valuable about effective sites publishing. I wish I could also read it in my native language
April 14th, 2009 at 12:55 am
This is an interesting post. We use Google Reader and a couple of blog archives to do this.
The important thing to remember here is, just random link backs will just demotivate one.
If the subject matter is clear to the commenter, the better he would be able to write, and thus better chances of his comment being accepted!
April 16th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
i also know tips that how a site can be rank up but some tips i didn’t know before but here now i also found more tips for raking of site. Thanks for sharing this nice info.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Great tip to do now. I’m learn many new thing to do in your article. I’m starting to do all you tip. thank you for great job.
May 5th, 2009 at 4:49 am
I have been trying my hands at understanding SEO and its implications for quite a long time. Still quite a few terms are not fully clear to me.
One important principle I understood from this article: I have to leave a sensible, relevant comment to a post.
The dofollow is not clear to me. Can anyone help?
May 6th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Great article, but agree with previous comment, could someone elaborate on dofollow?
thanks
May 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
By default wordpress blogs have “nofollow” for links in post comments. The “nofollow” attribute tells Google not to crawl that link. So “dofollow” would be the opposite, and by default a link without “nofollow” will have Google following the link to the site.
For example:
href='http://www.practicalcontrol.co.uk' rel='external nofollow' class='url' rel="nofollow">Ed HoldsworthSo you wouldn’t have Google following your name to your site because of the “nofollow” in the link. Since linking to certain sites can affect your rank negatively, it’s usually a good idea to use this tag in comments where you can’t always control where you are linking to.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
Excellent advice.
Threaded comments can now also be achieved without the use of a plugin. In your wp dashboard, go to Settings–>Discussion–>Other comment settings and check off the little box. You can even select how much depth you want to allow.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 am
I do this a lot. I go blog hunting sometimes and I always comment on the post that I like. There are a lot of people that think that this is spamming but if you really want to know what spamming is, you should have taken a look at my blog before I set the moderate comments up. I had a comment by five different people that all went to the same site that said, all though I do not agree with you 100%, now this is spamming. I don’t think that it is a bad idea. If you want to visit and comment on my blog, I will happily except you. I am also a do-follow. I only delete comments that are stupid or don’t make any sense.
June 11th, 2009 at 11:46 am
One time I commented on a PR5 blog post and the page I linked to shot to #1 on Google in 24 hours! Dan-O
June 12th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Does anyone have a good source for a list of blogs broken down by category? I’m trying to find 20-25 blogs to make comments on but can only find 5 or 6 related to my subject topic.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Great post. I use Fast Blog Finder to locate blogs with “do follow” tags. I’ve had success getting backlinks from blog commenting. I just don’t do it enough. I need to set time aside for this each day.
June 14th, 2009 at 11:43 am
I am a self-employed locksmith. I handle all aspects of my business including promotion. In my spare time I have been building a website and blog. I am constantly searching for sites that provide useful information. I have found your site to be very useful and relatively easy to understand.
In the past, I have posted comments on question/answer forums that are related to my trade. Is this a useful technique for increasing link building.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
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July 28th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Thanks for sharing the great information…It has helped fill in some holes where we had questions…and has given us idea’s of how to improve our blog and page ranking…
I have booked marked this blog…..and plan on sharing a visiting again…thank you….
October 9th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Thanks for this great post on effective blog commenting. I have good SERP positions but somehow my page rank still stuck at 0 and I think there’s a limitations to my SERP as well. Trying to hit another level but it keeps getting stuck.
do you have any tips on how to outsource blog commenting?
October 20th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Hi.first i like to thank you for writing all these great tips on your site. Now i hv question . Where can we activate our commentluv ? Can everyone activate it and what it does to our blog ? tq . Another question is on your post on 50 simple ways for you to make your website – you mentioned about the 404 page. Now how do we get on to that page and add the search box. This is good tips cos in my cpanel, I find many visitors went into page 404. And I didnt know that we could add a post there. Pls email me at admin@cynthiaimageconsulting.com TQ
October 29th, 2009 at 12:51 am
I've been using a program called G-Lock fast blog finder to find dofollow blogs for my related niches. Do a google search for it, its around 40 dollars but saves so much time.
Jack P
October 31st, 2009 at 9:01 am
Very well written article. Thanks for the information on the top commenter sites. I didn't know that they link as do-follow in home page before. Now I found a couple of sites browsing.
thanks for sharing.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 am
Effective blogging tips are well good for the webmasters and site owners.Purpose of blogging and increasing the pr tips are really fanta.
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November 4th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I have recently used a free software program called fast blog finder which is ok but still there are many no follow blogs out there. What is the best way to obtain free high PR links? Or should we be paying for them?
November 21st, 2009 at 3:56 am
I've always wondered about the people who post comments on my site and basically spam me with links or simply say “thanks great post” and nothing else. I generally don't bother leaving a comment unless it actually adds to the “conversation” I really need to read this blog more often (now bookmarked) Some great insights that I plan to put in play.
Thanks for sharing!
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Hi
Increasing my page rank is what I'm concentrating on at the momnet. Thanks for the info, great post
Tom Horton
http://www.Increase-SignUps.co.uk
December 24th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Yes, this tips was a good way to increase pagerank. and 5 comments in a day, is it enough?
December 30th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Great article and tips. I recently created a website and two blogs and researching as well as trying any tips I can find. Sounds like I found a good resource. Thanks!!
January 21st, 2010 at 10:32 am
Great tips to improve SEOs. I believe working on LSI and keywords are also crucial in improving SEOs. Google has been mentioning about LSI in its SERP algorithm.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:49 am
Very useful for someone who wants to be serious in blogging.
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Google will be paying less importance to blog commenting very soon. Its too easy.
February 26th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Yes, it's true that properly done do-follow blogs commenting helps to increase keywords ranking.
March 5th, 2010 at 1:05 am
I was beginning to wonder if my blog commenting was all for naught. I've made the mistake of commenting on Page Rank 0 websites, now I know this won't help me. I'll make sure to stick to higher Page Rank blogs for now on, thanks.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:51 am
do you think it is a better strategy to post comments rather than just make more blogs.. which could then have links to the site you're trying to improve the seo of? does it actually get you a faster pr increase?
March 13th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Well these days almost every another webmaster knows the importance of backlinks and getting backlink via commenting on blogs, specially commenting on blogs with higher Page Ranks.
But this article has some additional information such as using RSS feed effectively to organizing the links, this was helping.
Mot of people are aware about different page rank for different page of blog. still lot of important information was provided.
My vote: 8/10
Regards:
Dr. Shoeb
Owner of Dental Forum
March 13th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
By the way, its kind of mysterious the way page rank works, I wonder if anyone REALLY knows how it works…
March 14th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
man.. These are some great tips
But i find it hard to look for good blogs that allow comments.
@5th point: Do you think that commenting on the same post two times will be beneficial? I mean, can we use 2 links from the same page?
also, comment luv plugin is a nice one. That is a great tips to find blogs.
Thanks, keep posting.
March 14th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
This is an easy way to promote a site but sure is a effective way.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:30 am
Awesome tips, I'm following step number 2 and proud of it… haha
March 15th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Before I don't believe that blog commenting helps to rank blogs or websites. Most blogs out there have no follow on the comment section. I used to comment a lot on some blogs even on sites with nofollows on their comment section. Pinoy, Pre Order Video Game and Discount and coupons
To my surprise, even though it has nofollow, the backlink still shows in the search engines. Bad thing about having a dofollow plugin on your blogs make them susceptible to spammers. Worst these spams are usually porn sites or warez sites.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Great tips, especially the 5th, 7th and 8th.
I've been commenting for 3 weeks, but I always had problems with finding new and related blogs. Do you know which is the best blog directory to start searching? I know, Google's my friend, but still, which directory do you suggest?
March 15th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
An absolutely important aspect in pagerank and building a following
March 16th, 2010 at 2:08 am
do you think it is a better strategy to post comments rather than just make more blogs.. which could then have links to the site you're trying to improve the seo of? does it actually get you a faster pr increase?
March 16th, 2010 at 2:09 am
was beginning to wonder if my blog commenting was all for naught. I've made the mistake of commenting on Page Rank 0 websites, now I know this won't help me. I'll make sure to stick to higher Page Rank blogs for now on, thanks.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:10 am
By the way, its kind of mysterious the way page rank works, I wonder if anyone REALLY knows how it works
March 16th, 2010 at 2:56 am
Great tip! This is an easy way to promote my site.
Thanks
March 16th, 2010 at 3:03 am
Make certain you collect a steady and varied collection of links
March 16th, 2010 at 5:57 am
I was beginning to wonder if my blog commenting was all for naught. I've made the mistake of commenting on Page Rank 0 websites, now I know this won't help me. I'll make sure to stick to higher Page Rank blogs for now on, thanks.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:58 am
have been doing this for a while and it has been working for me. It gives you a lot of traffic and subscribers. But I comment at least 30 to 40 times a day. It has been working though.
March 16th, 2010 at 5:41 am
I also agree that I think Google will start filtering out blog commenting links, or at least provide them with less value