Is it OK to Leave Links in Comments ?
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It may sound silly ... Just wondering to see your opinion about leaving link on blogs; keyword as name with site link or link in the comment text as long as its relevant.
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This "strategy" is well known but almost never used right. Imo maybe not link building but rather brand building/sales generation strategy.
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Hi there!
This can be a good link building strategy - but only if you do it right. Don't go around to random blogs and comment a site link. But if you do this strategically and find relevant blogs that allow comments, this is a good way to do this without it being "spammy".
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Totally Agree with you Thank you for your great input.
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Frankly, it dose make sense a lot to me here now. Got picture clear what and how to tackle this. Thank you for your detail explanation.
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I think Krzysztof has nailed it.... think about the site you are commenting on for links. make sure it is relevant, high quality and moderated well.
If you are potentially touting your business I would also advise requesting the link is set to no-follow for safety and to ensure you do not get penalised for it.
I also think you should make sure the link is 100% useful to the users who will also see it.
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If you want place link just for link without any good comment but spammy/from template (hey your blog is really useful so come to mine...[link] etc) - bad idea
If you write useful comment about subject of the post with value added AND link would have safe anchor (not so money keyworded, brand/compound is the best for you) - good ideaBut there're few catches:
- check if post/article is really related to your website niche - good? great
- check other comments - are they related? are they spammy? are they generated? - if you see many spam comments with links (money keyworded, repetited) then better NOT to post comment there because website owner doesn't care about comments quality (even if nofollowed - he probably set that to not get outgoing links penalty rather than prevent users from adding spam comments) and simply doesn't moderate them; if number of comments are low (not hundreds spammy looking) and all of them seems to be real - great and post your comment with link (that useful comment, hand written with value added and link not very money keyworded)
Other stuff worth doing?
- check website niche and how relative is to your website
- check stats like tf, cf, pa, da - if they're pretty good, great but imo better if stats are lower but website is more related to yours, than high stats and website is about anything
- check how spammy are links pointing to website - many money keywords? strange/not related anchors?
If all looks good - don't hesitate to post a comment. Your link will be probably nofollowed but still can bring some leads.
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If it's relevant to the main article then yes it would be fine. They're usually all nofollow links now. What it does do though is offer engagement in the comment section, may get you noticed and added to the main article if you bring up a good enough point.
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Well the answer could be if the link in the comment is about the same subject than the article, sometimes "spam" is kind of subjetive matter.
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Thank you for quick response. But i am bit confuse here is the link: http://www.problogger.net/signatures-in-blog-comments/comment-page-2
this gentleman belive its spam. So i am wondering if you still support your argument.Thanks
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Not silly, it can be good in a linkbuilding strategy te get links nofollow, the links nofollow are important to have 50% nofollow links and 50% follow links to looks a natural linkbuilding to the eyes of google. But the links you can get in the comments in the form to get the link in the username, no in the body of the comment.
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