Writing blog comments is one of the leading methods through which you can generate backlinks (this is a statement that is disputable and is not one of the issues that will be discussed in this blog post. For the record, I hold a neutral position as to the link building and SEO benefit of blog comments, but I do believe that comments help drive traffic to blog posts and are interesting to read, and so I invite you to comment on any of my blog posts). The topic that will be discussed here is the writing of quality blog comments, or rather how to write a comment that will get approved.
Throughout my SEO work I manage many different blogs on many different topics, these blogs receive tons of comments and in any given month I approve hundreds of blog comments, and report thousands of others as spam, or delete them, given this I feel that I am qualified to discuss this topic. The first and most important thing in a blog comment is, you should always (always!) use your real name in the “name” section of the comment form; I realize that the name will become anchor text for your link, but if I see a comment with the name, “Laser Hair Removal NJ” or “Modern kitchen showroom in New York” I am far less likely to approve the comment than if the author had used their real name. Oh, and as far as any link benefit that you might potentially get from anchor text, a higher approval rate for comments is more beneficial.
The second thing that I would urge you to do is to please, please, please, do not copy/paste the same comment to a bunch of different blogs! I monitor comments on many blogs and I often see the exact same comment being posted on each blog, word for word. I realize that this is probably done by a spam bot, but I’ve known webmasters to do this, with the misguided belief that more comments will be approved… I implore you, I like to approve comments, and I want to approve more comments, so if you are going to take the time to post a comment, please take an extra 20 seconds to skim the blog post and to leave a comment that relates to the post.
The next tip that I can give you regarding blog comments is to not waste your time leaving comments like “Good job” or “great post” even if these comments are not flagged by the blogs’ spam filter many blog owners are unlikely to approve such comments, and I know that I often flag such comments as spam.
There are many other tips that relate to the posting of blog comments, be positive, stay on point, do not try to include 10 links in the comment etc… and many more tips, but here we are nearing commenting tips that are (or at least should be) common sense, and I will not devote time to such tips at this time.
Do you have any advice regarding how to write blog comments? Please leave your response as a comment. LOL
Throughout my SEO work I manage many different blogs on many different topics, these blogs receive tons of comments and in any given month I approve hundreds of blog comments, and report thousands of others as spam, or delete them, given this I feel that I am qualified to discuss this topic. The first and most important thing in a blog comment is, you should always (always!) use your real name in the “name” section of the comment form; I realize that the name will become anchor text for your link, but if I see a comment with the name, “Laser Hair Removal NJ” or “Modern kitchen showroom in New York” I am far less likely to approve the comment than if the author had used their real name. Oh, and as far as any link benefit that you might potentially get from anchor text, a higher approval rate for comments is more beneficial.
The second thing that I would urge you to do is to please, please, please, do not copy/paste the same comment to a bunch of different blogs! I monitor comments on many blogs and I often see the exact same comment being posted on each blog, word for word. I realize that this is probably done by a spam bot, but I’ve known webmasters to do this, with the misguided belief that more comments will be approved… I implore you, I like to approve comments, and I want to approve more comments, so if you are going to take the time to post a comment, please take an extra 20 seconds to skim the blog post and to leave a comment that relates to the post.
The next tip that I can give you regarding blog comments is to not waste your time leaving comments like “Good job” or “great post” even if these comments are not flagged by the blogs’ spam filter many blog owners are unlikely to approve such comments, and I know that I often flag such comments as spam.
There are many other tips that relate to the posting of blog comments, be positive, stay on point, do not try to include 10 links in the comment etc… and many more tips, but here we are nearing commenting tips that are (or at least should be) common sense, and I will not devote time to such tips at this time.
Do you have any advice regarding how to write blog comments? Please leave your response as a comment. LOL
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