dizzysoft softwareBlog Comment Links for SEO
As a professional SEO I know how important links are to achieving rankings from Google. As such, I know the temptation to find a link in any place you can in order to achieve your desired SEO results. For some people, this means trying to build links through blog commenting. For others it means using automated software to build a massive quantity of blog comments with the hopes that some of them will give their webpage authority in Google’s eyes.
Because of this, a couple years ago, Google rolled-out the nofollow tag. When you add this parameter to your link, you are telling Google that you are not vouching for the site at the receiving end of the link. Although some say the nofollowed link still passes value, most agree they nolonger do.
This created a demand for dofollow blogs- blogs that do not automatically add the nofollow attribute to links- so the blog comments can pass authority to a website they are linking to. This created a demand for websites that list dofollow blogs. Some developers even created WordPress plugins (since it is one of the most popular blogging platforms) that specifically offers blog commenters dofollow links, such as Link Love or CommentLuv.
Of course, the goldmine for any SEO doing blog comments for links is an auto-approve, dofollow blog. This not only gives the authority for the link but bypasses the pesky and slow process of manual approval.
All this is done in the hopes of building some links, to pass authority to a website, with the hopes of improving the receiving site’s rankings in Google. The blog commenting for link building is a risky SEO tactic, but many still do it- whether manually or using specialized blog commenting software.
Since so many people still think this is valuable enough to keep doing, I’m going to make this blog post a repository for blog comments. I will approve every blog comment for this post- whether automated or manually submitted. Some of them will be funny. Some will be sad. All will be an interesting look into the measures some SEOs will take to improve their rankings.
Update: I think this post attracted a swarm of spambots- which have overwhelmed me with hundreds of comments. I understand that I was asking for it but nothing I did seemed to solve this problem. Then I installed the GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin. It was solved almost immediately!
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:04 am
I’ve been watching this for a while and I’m convinced that do-follow links still have SEO value, at least for now. But who knows, algorithm may change and blog commenting links may become useless for SEO.
January 9th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
An auto-approve dofollow blog, you say? That gives me an assumption that it’s really vulnerable to spam unless the comment moderation on the blog dashboard’s really tight and the anti-spam engine works really well. When you’re blog commenting, these dofollows shouldn’t really be the first things you have to think of. You should focus on building relationships with the other readers and the author first.
– Ray
February 2nd, 2012 at 6:02 am
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February 18th, 2012 at 9:56 pm
I agree with boston, algorithm may change and blog commenting links may become useless for SEO.