Blog comments question

[activitysuper]

Hi,

I don't tend to blog comment that much unless it's actually a genuine comment as in, my first thought wasn't gaining a link back.

What is the best practise for this type of link building?

This is how I do it (When I am looking to gain a link back)

title - brand name

website - root domain

comment - I try and go above and beyond with this, take it out of the spam arena by reading the article and then replying with at least 100 words referencing to part of the article.

Would you classify the above as the wrong way about it? I know some say no-follow links (most blog comments out there) don't count but when I see the external link pop up in WMT it does make me think no-follow links count for something.

Cheers

[activitysuper]

Thanks for reply.

That put some confidence in my commenting activity.

Anchor text titles worry me a little because if I spend the time writing a nice comment I wouldn't want it to be removed. I look at it as if I was running a blog, if someone placed an anchor text title on the comment I would straight away assume they was posting for one reason.

Although I would love to gain a few more anchor text links this way.

Thanks.

[XNUMERIK]

You seem to be doing it just right.

I would also use some kewyords in the title to deversify and sometimes a link inside the comment itself (when possible/allowed)

No-follow links are backlinks, they just pass very little if any linkjuice.

To have a natural looking link profile, you need to have a decent proportion of nofollow links, so they are usefull for this reason at the very least.