Blog commenting in blogging world
Whenever you visit a website that uses blogging platform, in this article, wordpress blogs, mostly, and almost 99% of them, having an extra template part which is comment template.
It’s the section under the blog post itself, and whenever you have feedback, or something to say, even questions, you can type your name, website, and then the message you want to leave in the blog.
Then the blog owners will moderate, approve or even “trash” your comments, depends on how you comment. (related: set up discussion setting wordpress) If you tend to spam with unrelevant comments, then it’s likely they would not approve it.
Nowadays, bloggers idea of blog commenting is to spread their website links using their keywords to generate all backlinks throughout the internet. (related post: use commentluv to create backlinks).
This SEO technique probably worked a long time ago, but it does not work that way. Google is not dumb, and if your blog’s age is new, and you have unnatural backlinks on the web, it risks to be flagged as spam, worse, your blog will disappear in Google.
Blog commenting — the bad theory
Blog commenting is a way to make your blog more interactive, because you will be able to have a communication with your visitors and readers.
People who have similar niche, or topic will want to be involved with your post, if they have interest, or enquiries, they will do blog commenting by leaving their message to create a conversation with you.
As a website owner, you may notice there are tons of comments that are likely to be bot comments (related: get rid of spam bots wordpress). They are using automted blog commenting software to blast our blogs with spammy comments.
In my opinion, blog commenting softwares are not bad, but the people who use and implement them, they want to spam every websites on the internet to death, which is bad.
Blog commenting for SEO — is blog commenting good or bad?
Blog commenting is definitely important in blogosphere and Search Engine Optimizations (SEO). It is what make different between blog, a dynamic website and static old fashioned website.
While you are active in a post discussion, you are building your site’s popularity. Blog commenting is definitely good for SEO, as long as you don’t spam.
It is very effective to gain traffic and backlinks, build it naturally, join conversation as it is like in real life, when you discuss something with friends or family.
Give some valuable thoughts, so the owners of the blogs will definitely approve your comments using your URL too.
Blog commenting tips:
1. Try to do it in dofollow blogs which is related on your topic.
This is because when your comments are approved, you will get dofollow backlinks, which is benefit for link juice.
2. Don’t ignore nofollow blogs.
Nofollow blogs links are still indexed by Yahoo Search engine, so they also can give you benefit, when you leave a message in a nofollow blog, check their alexa rank, the higher alexa rank, the higher traffic they have.
If a visitor find your link as a great resource, they will visit your blog as well, more traffic from nofollow blogs.
3. Try to comment at least two paragraphs, so it will show you are really interested on the topic.
If you just type in “good post, thanks” the webmaster that has the website will think, that your comment is usefull spammy one, even if you really mean that words. I personally hate this kind of comment too.
4. Come back to the same page if your comments has a reply (related post: reply me plugin wordpress)
This will show you are active in the conversation and visitors will notice it too, so it has big possibility for them to check out your link.
Blog commenting is definitely good for SEO, have you done it so far?
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Hi Kimi
Blog commenting has become a part of traffic-building exercise. Should admit that though started it as a part of the process, have become involved into the subject for in this blogosphere, we come across so many valuable articles and information.
When you are typically involved it becomes practically difficult not to comment on well-written articles
Looking forward for more articles!!
Have a great weekend
Best Regards
Lakshmi
Hi Lakshmi,
Yes, I agree with you, blog commenting is actually one of my favorite way to build links, one is to meet another friends on blogosphere, and second is getting links :-)
Thanks for commenting!
Hi Kimi, you truly laid it out the way it should be. I must say it’s unfortunate that many bloggers have turned the blog comment feature to some thing that should be done simply for the seo gains. But I’ve always not agreed with this stand. My blog is a dofollow blog with commentluv and keywordluv enabled and many just want to abuse this privilege. They need to understand that blog commenting should first and foremost be a thing of interaction and building relationships. Thanks for the post.
Chadrack,
I agree with you 300% , that’s the main first purpose of blog commenting, to interact with blog’s owner and other bloggers.
Thanks for visiting and leave a comment.
Kimi.
Hi Kimi,
You have outlined it all out well. Blog commenting should all now be back to where it should be in the first place. That is to provide honest feedback and genuine interaction to fellow online visitors and article writers.
This should be read by a lot more website owners to realize that there’s more than just dropping a line or two to spread their name in various websites. Agree?
Have a happy weekend Kimi! :)
Cheers,
Dave
Hey Dave,
I 200% agree with you!
Thanks for commenting, and have a great weekend too :)
Kimi
For me leaving comments on blog is my way to thank the author for writing the post and switch thoughts…
As for my blog; I’ve a dofollow blog + commentluv… Unfortunately this means that I receive about 100+ spam comments a day, which Akismet always takes care of, but they always contain a lot of links and keywords and this has nothing to do with commenting on my posts… :S
Yeah, I know that situation..
I have installed commentluv last year and I receive lots of comments, but then I remove it, the comments are usually genuine and not for backlinking purpose..
Though having commentluv can increase the visitors (commenters) but we must take care extra on approving them.
Have fun :-)
Hi,
nice thoughts. I think, to get rid of the spam, the best way is to implement the no-follow tags. However, a good comment should be honored with a anchor text link to the commentor’s page. It is a give and take, and valuable comments enrich the blog, and make it valuable for people to come back and check the new developments.
Best,
Tina
Great article on SEO issues. I have struggled with the decision to use Commentluv, and finally I just gave it a try. But will Google penalize me for too many outgoing links? I dont’ know.
If anyone knows whether or not your site will be penalized for too many outgoing links, I would appreciate a reply to this comment.
Hi Tim,
I know a lot of CommentLuv user bloggers which have great PR, and traffics.
To me, personally, when I installed CommentLuv, definitely people who want to comment and put backlinks are more than now.
If you use this plugin, you have to be careful with the links in your site.
I don’t know if big G will penalize you because of too many outgoing links, I don’t think so, but not 100% sure, since I am not a SEO expert.
The reason why I don’t install CommentLuv plugin is because I think this plugin is not a must-have in this wp blog.
I hope this helps..
Kind regards,
Kimi.
Kimi,
I agree with you and like your site. I have meet and made more contacts blog commenting then any other method. I was told that that the big G does penalize for to many outgoing links. I’m going to do more research on that subject now..
C
It’s the many spoiling it for the few (and yes, that is the correct way around). I’m not a fan of SEO work and have always seen it as a way to ‘trick the system.’ I think that is why I love Facebook’s new EdgeRank system. It puts the focus on quality rather than quantity (slightly different subject, but still valid here).
Commenting on blogs is important for those interested in the given subject being blogged about. The best information and resources can sometimes be found there! But seeing that ‘nice post’ followed by a link is soul destroying (especially when you are starting out in the blog arena and see a comment only to discover the same one posted 30 times in a row).
That said, Google needs to realize that a lot of us use Blog comments to network and exchange ideas. It is important that they don’t punish the few because of the actions of the many.
My 2 cents anyway.
Hey Kimi thanks, we are in the process of developing an online marketing plan for our startup, so this info was totally helpful.
I’m thinking that you can uncover nofollow blogs by searching their source for “rel=”nofollow”. We just did that on a Wordpress.com blog to discover we probably should have checked first before commenting.
Hey Torey,
Nofollow blogs are fine too, in my opinion, they give us balance of building link naturally.
I have checked in Wordpress.com the comments are nofollow.
Thanks for leaving a comment!
Kimi.
Firstly thanks for the links…
My question is that is commenting on blogs better then posting on forums for seo purpose. I have a blog and it requires better link building.
thanks
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Personally I automatically delete any comments that use a purely keyword title. Business names are better but I still don’t like them.
I like to be really strict about what comments I allow because that way the really good comments get more benefit. If you accept poorly thought out comments it seems less fair on the people who have put in a lot of effort.
Thank you for the article and your responses. I was wondering if it is relevant to SEO if you post comments on blogposts and help with backlinking. It appears it does.
SEO is a complex beast but is just part of having a website and driving traffic. Some people don’t like it, some people do. But it is what it is and sometimes you just have to honor it.
Why do some people think that blog commenting is bad. I understand the automated stuff that doesn’t take the discussion or point in hand, but if you’ve read the material, and have something to help or add, are there any penalties from Google?
Hi Kimi,
Really i am impressed from this post….the person who create this post it was a great human..thanks for shared this with us.
Can you please let me know what you think about including keywords in comment writer name? Since most bloggers will delete these type of comments…
How much benefit do you get from blog comments in terms of link building if the writer name does not include keywords? Is it the topic of the blog that carries the weight of the link or the keyword itself? I hope my question makes sense…
Good = sense, Bad = Spam!
I’ve made a lot of good connections through commenting on other blogs. I have gotten some people to even guest post on my blog because we’ve started a conversation on the comments section on another blog and it blossomed into a relationship.
I also don’t leave comments on just blogs in my niche. I read a lot of different blog and like to comment. You never know what might come of it.
Finding places to leave links is hard – especially when you have more that one client in the same industry ! I have 350 different mechanics around australia and its pretty hard to come up with new places to get links. I was just guilty of leaving a couple of ‘good read, thanks” comments so i hope they get approved ! From now on i will try to get more involved in my comments ! I guess i cant href in THIS comment ?? he he
Blog commenting is one of the best way to persue SEO. It is very helpful in building links.
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Taking advantage of the KeywordLuv and CommentLuv plugins when blog commenting is one of the effective ways of getting your link to spread and, at the same time, building relationships with the other readers and the author of the post. About the dofollow links, it’s better if you’re going to focus on how to interact instead of landing those dofollow links. Just think of those as bonus points.
– Ray
Hi, we should have an personal blog for everyone. So that we can share our own thoughts. You did good. Happy blogging.