Is Blog Commenting Worth Doing Anymore?

[MichaelWeisbaum]

I set a little bit of time aside for each client to comment on blogs for backlinks, but it just seems like a waste of time at this point.  Most blogs have comments turned off, or won't allow links.  Obviously making your name a keyword and making that a link is very spammy, and alot of blogs are using Disqus or making you login with your facebook account to post a comment.  What's the best way of going about this these days, or is it not even worth the time?

[EGOL]

If I had a client who built hand-made kites and he enjoyed sharing information about them.  I would encourage him to start his own blog rather than tell him to go out commenting on blogs owned by other people.

The last thing that I would do is to go out myself commenting about kites and trying to get links for him.  I don't know a damn thing about kites and my comments would make him look like an idiot.

[MichaelWeisbaum]

Good point.  So it's really not worth spending time on that particular link building strategy?

[EGOL]

You didn't mention that most blogs have nofollow on the links.

I think that most people who own blogs or read them often can spot blog comments left for the purpose of acquiring links.  It really makes the client look lame.