Blog Comment Posting – What Is the Value In It?
You may be wondering if there is any value at all in commenting on others’ blogs. I shall share my experience here as well as discuss why people love to leave blog comments around.
1. Improving Link Popularity
Blogs allow you to post a link in your comments. This is a free backlink to your website. If the blog post is a high PR, eg PR 7 blog post, you are practically getting a PR 7 backlink FREE. And all it takes is a few minutes of your time.
A PR 7 backlink costs anything between $50 and $200, and in most cases, that is a monthly bill you have to pay to the text advertisement networks like TextLinkAds.
2. Indirect Traffic
I love posting comments in popular blogs. The reason is simple. Popular blogs get a lot of attention and visitors. When the visitors read the post, they will find your comment and follow your link.
Highly trafficked blogs can get 10,000’s of visitors daily. Even a fraction of that can be worth a lot to your website.
You may have noticed also that some blog posts rank well in the search engine results. Imagine traffic from the search engines coming to your website. Wow!
3. Gain Better Search Engine Ranking
A blog comment link is also counted as a valid backlink to your website. Like what I mentioned about improving link popularity, having a backlink from a blog which carries the same theme as your website is a thematic backlink which will boost your search engine ranking.
A Case in Point:
I posted a simple comment in http://alokjain.in/affiliates-road-to-financial-freedom/.
The results: 9 subscribers for my free report & 1 sale came in within the next hour.
I have seen such happenings from time to time.
What about the “No Follow” tag?
When blog commenting first got popular one or two years ago, many spammers also got onto the blog comment train. Comment spamming became rife and many legitimate and popular blogs got hit by tons of worthless comment posts. Some are posted manually, others by automated blog comment script.
As a result, many blog platforms, notably WordPress implemented the “No Follow” meta-tag on many blogs. By this, the search engines would not follow the comment links. Hence, each link is not counted as a valid backlink, ie no search engine love.
Should we get overly concerned about this “No Follow” tag issue?
Here’s my take on this.
Firstly, not all blogs use this “No Follow” tag.
Secondly, considering the indirect traffic that still continues to stream from the blogs, there is really no harm in posting even in blogs with the “No Follow” tag.
Thirdly, you are only spending a few minutes to post your comment. That is worth the potential hundreds of visitors that will continue streaming in to your website for a long time to come.
In the next post, I will discuss about 2 blog commenting software, Comment Hut and Comment Kahuna that are able to find high PR blogs that do not have the dreaded “No Follow” tags.
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3 Responses to “Blog Comment Posting – What Is the Value In It?”
By Monica on Feb 9, 2008 | Reply
Thats nice idea. I never thought of this advantage for posting comments. Its win win situation for the blogger and the one posting comments as well.
By alchemygaming on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
hi,
Yes i have found this out too Monica, it is a win win situation for all.
steve
By Davion on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
Hi Steve and Monica, blog comment posting will help you draw targeted traffic. That is why it is so important to post in relevant blog posts. Make a good post, and be one of the first to do so. More people will see it that way!
Post at the most popular blogs and you will have streams of traffic coming from different places. I love this because all it takes is a few minutes of your time. Wow!