Leave comments and make other bloggers link to you
Quality of Backlinks
Backlinks from any and every blog or website would not help you in your SEO efforts. You need to get backlinks from quality sites in order to rank higher in search engine result pages (SERPs).
What can be better than getting links from other good quality blogs?
Links from other quality blogs in your niche are extremely valuable for good SEO. The problem is getting the other blogger to link to you!
Leave comments, get backlinks
Ok, it is not that easy. However, it isn’t very difficult either. Read on.
When you leave meaningful comments on someone’s blog, he or she is much more likely to link back to you. Here are the reasons:
1. Commenting creates inherent liking
Every blogger likes to have a community around his or her blog. Comments and commenters are an integral part of this community.
When you leave comments on a blog, you automatically get into the good books of the blogger, because you are helping his / her blog!
2. Good comments are thought provoking
When you leave comments that add to the discussion, or comments that counter the view of the blogger, it prompts the blogger to think more about the topic.
He / she may or may not agree with what you say, but it always prompts them to think deeper. And since you provoke the though, they are more likely to remember you and link back to you – especially if they write a follow-up post based on this!
3. Regular, quality comments create high recall value
When another blogger sees your name regularly in the comments section, with contents that add to the discussion in a meaningful way, your name would have a high recall value in the mind of the blogger.
And remember, you might need to write to the blogger asking for a backlink to your blog. In this case, it would help tremendously if your name is familiar to the blogger.
After all, it would be difficult to say no to a loyal reader and a regular contributor!
The other side – Spammy comments
All this doesn’t mean that mere commenting would earn you backlinks. Remember, your comments need to add to the discussion in some way. The comments have to be relevant and meaningful.
There is no point in commenting for the sake of commenting – leaving a spammy comment like “Great post!” wouldn’t help at all.
In fact, it would do the opposite – it would make the blogger remember you as a comment spammer, which is best avoided!
Therefore, do leave comments, but only when you have something meaningful to say.
Conclusion
Leaving meaningful comments regularly increases your familiarity, which is like brand building for you.
And if the comments are really though provoking, the blogger is very highly likely to link to you in future posts.
Bottomline: Leave good comments, and earn backlinks!
Note: Leaving comments can get you more backlinks, and more traffic too! Check out “Leaving comments: Get multiple backlinks, get traffic, build your brand” for more on this.
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This post has 8 comments
June 11th, 2009
Good post on the power of commenting. ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse said that when he was making 100 comments a day on various blogs when he started his site, it was the best thing he could have ever done to increase his traffic and get other people in his niche to know about him.
June 22nd, 2009
I completely agree with you and Darren – commenting has the best return (in terms of traffic and visibility) for the time invested. And it has multiple benefits – you not only get traffic and visibility, but also get to read so many great posts in the process!
June 12th, 2009
By leaving good comments you also get yourself involved in the blog and become part of its community. Therefore you really want to be sure you are commenting on blogs you want to be associated with, n’est pas?
June 17th, 2009
Thanks for the heads up!
June 20th, 2009
This is a case in point! I was just reading Darren’s blog post on increasing your adsense revenue and came upon your comment about the wordpress plug in that moves the ad’s around.. WOW I’ve been looking for something like that. I have tried a couple of plugins for this and they were AWFUL! so I am headed to try the one you suggested right away. I also just subscribed to your blog… this looks like awesome stuff for a newbie wordpress blogger.
June 20th, 2009
Agree with you. With the good commenting will have chance to get backlinks and traffic.
I lucky found your blog because many tips is useful for me as wordpress newbie blogger.
June 28th, 2009
I am a Tech Blogger. This post about the power of commenting really helped me a lot to understand the value of commenting. Moreover, I learnt the standard of comments of comment which should I make. I am a new blogger, hoping blogging success
Thanks
July 21st, 2009
leaving comment is one of the most suggested aspect of seo. it really helps in increasing traffic of websites. its easy and basic in seo.
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