Oh, Bye The Way Did I Tell I Have Given Up On Blogging For Links
September 25, 2009
For those who are new to this blog let me get you up to speed here. I have been a very big proponent of blogging for links. As with everything I am always multi- tasking. I endeavor to do multiple tasks at once. I like to consider it working smarter. When I would be blogging for links (leaving comments on other blogs to acquire backlinks) I would also be working on branding, networking, and learning.
Leaving blog comments solved four various elements of my marketing plan. I especially enjoyed the learning part of link building. I then would share what I learned with my readers. However, it has become increasing difficult for me as an SEO to get my comments past spam filters. Many bloggers consider anyone that uses SEO as an anchor text for their comment links to be a spammer.
It didn’t make any difference that I was providing lengthy useful comments because I was using SEO in the name field the spam filters automatically rejected me. On occasion someone who would rescue my comment from a spam filter but not often. With this in mind, I did a little experiment where I made 100 posts and recorded the url’s. I went back a week later only to discover 43% of my comments had been approved. I was very careful to leave good comments and to follow comment policies.
That is not what I would call a very effective link building experiment. So I thought about this for a little while and I decided to go another direction. I now almost exclusively build link on high Page Rank social media sites and I am glad that I do. If any of you have followed this blog you will likely already know that this site ranks on the first page of the Google results, as in 50 times.
That’s right, I report at the beginning of each month the sites rankings. The last time that I checked back on September first we ranked on the first page of Google for 50 keyword phrases. Some of these are not very competitive but they still are niche markets that we target. Then again, many of these results are in extremely competitive markets. The key to this success was abandoning blogging for links.
When I decided to abandon blogs the site ranked 31 times on the first page of Google. Two months later that number is at 50. Over the last two months I have almost exclusively used Web 2.0 social media sites for link building. I usually leave a site with 5 or more links. The process is extremely easy if you are prepared. I simply take what the site offers in the profile area. Then I add value to the site through blog or forum posts and comments. I take the time to do it right!
I have many blog posts covering multiple topics ready in advance. The key here is to provide quality and not spammy posts. I close all posts using a signature as if it was a formal business letter. It includes a tagline. That’s where I add my links, into the tagline. As long as you are adding quality material that goes along with the sites theme you are generally not going to have any problems.
I have used this method thousands of times and only once did I get a complaint. That site banned me for putting links into my profile although they didn’t have a policy that prohibited this at that time. I got in trouble by reviewing the site on this blog. So all a sudden a whole bunch of people are doing the same thing. OOP’s!
That’s my method. The real beauty of this is that you are not visiting a blog hoping to find something to comment about. You pick the topic hopefully something that is related to your business and the sites theme. Many of these social sites provide you with a blog or they have a forum. When I discover these I begin to grin. This all goes hand in hand with my marketing approach, Scratch My Back Marketing. If you help other people building links is easy. It still requires lots of time but it can be a joy rather than dull boring work.
What do you think about this? I would like to hear from you.
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 150 characters in length. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv.
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
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I have had the very same thing happened to me with being blocked by spam filters, even when I was genuinely contributing to the blog. This is all related to being filtered because of SEO, so I’m glad to see that this has happened to someone else. However, 43% of comments approved is not very good at all!
Admin: Hi Mark, I have learned to test everything that I do on the Internet. I am always testing for ROI and this came as a shocker to me. So I am very content to stick with Social media membership sites. I almost never run into any filters or problems as I go in with the intent of adding value and it works. This is an additional benefit that came from the 109 Day Link building explosion.
I have faced similar problems in the past, although spam filters blocked me only a little. My problem was different. I dont post on all the blogs I find. I choose blogs which are do follow and have great content and very less comments. But nowadays it has become very hard to find blogs like that. Only a very few exists and if you are not the first few to comment then better you dont comment. Yes that is the way it is. :( I am surprised when you said that 43% of the 100 comments you made got accepted. Which means 43 links. They are definitely contributing and much worthier as it gets older and older. Google loves old links.This scratch my back marketing technique is new to me and I wish I could easily understand the logic and contribute something worthy.
Thanks,
Girish
Admin: Great Comment! Thanks
This is a really useful suggestion. I have been discouraged at trying to find blogs to comment on because of the obvious problems of being filtered out,finding good relevant blogs and also the discouragement of the no follow standard.
I have liked one site that takes a lot of work but I get good traffic from it and also get some value from the links.I get good rankings (90-94 usually out of 100)for writing good content and as you said it becomes a pleasure instead of a bore.
My hubber name on hubpages is Seabastian and I would appreciate any feedback if you have time.
I would like a list of the sites that you find useful but since your experience with the one you mentioned on the blog before was negative-it might be better not to publish one. Maybe you could give some ideas on how I should go about getting my own list. Thanks
hi.I faced the same blocking thing in my past and my problem is not that you have all listed it is because I had used html text in the comment so they blocked my comment for a short period of time…
I would have deleted you comments as well. That is just a rude behavior practiced by short sighted people. You are getting on links here because you used only keywords. Try following the rules and you might be more successful… Your actions make you a spammer!