Blog commenting for SEO - Useful practice?
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With most blog comments being no-follow, I was just wondering whether blog commenting for an SEO campaign these days was actually a worthwhile practice. Would love to get some insight on this.
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You have to remember the point of your website is to communicate something or to sell something.
Commenting in relevant forums or blogs, with useful information, is always going to be beneficial as the quality of traffic will be high--even if the link is no-follow.
The most important thing is that you get qualified visitors.
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If there is conversation going on in your market I would suggest you be there.
Michael Edwards list the benefits nicely.
You will be surprised the content ideas that arise while conducting conversation in your space if you keep your eye out for industry woes/pain.
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I would suggest blog commenting has no real benefit for a link profile as it has been hugely abused.
However, there are very good reasons to do this with good authority, somehow related, spam free sites using quality comments.
- If no-follow they still give your link profile a natural mix
- Opportunity to develop relationship with the site
- Opportunity to write informative,authoritative comments to be seen as an authority
- Slight possibility for referral traffic
- still a small signal if part of a much bigger link strategy
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