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Backlinks through dofollow commenting
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I'm interested in building backlinks to my photography business site by leaving good, engaging comments on other photographers' DoFollow blogs. Is this a good idea? Is it worth the effort?
Through a little research, I've managed to locate more than 40 dofollow photographer blogs that have a domain authority of 35+.
The idea is to take an hour or so a week to leave 10-20 comments on their blog posts.
Would you consider this a good strategy? I rank on the first and second page of most of my keywords that I'm working on, but I want to rank 1st or 2nd on them. I used the keyword finder tool on google adwords to find the keywords that are the most searched for in my area. Surprisingly the competition is not large, so I'm fairly comfident I can get there.
I've already optimized my site substantially and I'm looking into link building.
Thoughts?
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You might want to look through the other responses to this question, as this tactic isn't the best one for sustainable rankings. Also, if you are a photographer, are your customers coming from the sites of other photographers? You may want to target your efforts towards places that your customers are reading.
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Do you still have this list? I would love to be able to comment on these posts. I comment on lots of photorgapher blogs, but most of them are nofollow and I want dofollow.
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This is exactly the type of link that I spend my days removing for penalized sites. Don't do it!
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Don't participate in blog commenting for the purpose of link building. If you genuinly find something really interesting and want to leave a comment, fair enough.
You want to build links? Start a blog, a damn good one. You're in the photography business, so you must have knowledge on the subject? write some amazing content that others would want to read and share. Optimise this content (naturally) to get it ranking in search engines.
Good luck
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Are you saying 10-20 comments on each blog each week? That's going to look quite unnatural.
What if the blogs decide to nofollow their comments? Would you still be happy to have your comments there? Is there a purpose to your commenting besides the hope of passing page rank?
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I would suggest NOT doing this as even engaging blog comments can be considered spam. I would suggest possibly reaching out to these sites and maybe see if there is another way they can help in linking to you. As was talked about in a recent YouMoz blog even no-follow links can be beneficial. Perhaps useful guest blogging would help. Despite what many people are saying if done properly guest posting can helpful to your site even if they no-follow the link.
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