Natural Link Building: Links from Blog Posts/Comments
One of our clients brought up an issue with me a few days ago. While trying to visit relevant blogs to his site and placing a comment there with a link back to his site, he noticed that almost 100% of these sites have a “nofollow” tag.
- Is it worth to place a comment/link where the link will have a nofollow tag?
- Are there blogs that do not have a no-follow tag for the comment sections? How can we find them?
- If leaving comments on blogs has no link-value, then why should we do it?
What is a nofollow tag?
A nofollow tag has the following format (HTML code):
<a href=”http://www.website.com” rel=”nofollow”>text link</a>
The nofollow tag indicates to Google (and other) spiders to not follow the link to its intended place. Thus, making such links value-less from an SEO point of view. The only intended audience for these links are human visitors who cannot tell the difference between a followed link and a nofollowed link (because the code is hidden in the back-end).
Now, getting back to the original questions. The short answer is that if you leave comments to get some link-juice for your site, don’t do it. You won’t get any SEO benefit from them. Because many black-hat SEO companies have abused the comment section of the blogs, almost all blogs have nofollow tags for the comment sections.
On the other hand, they don’t have nofollow tags for the main blog pages or other links on the site.
Instead of leaving a comment with your link in it, contact the blog admin and tell him that you’re interested in placing a link to your site on his blog/site.
Here are some tips to get the most benefit from your efforts:
- Check the blog’s PR (Page Rank). Sites with less than PR3 are usually not worth your efforts.
- In your first contact, indicate that you’re willing to pay a fee if necessary. Most blog owners crave for such business generating from their blog and most are honest people that will honor your agreement.
- Ask for a link on the home page. Home page links have far more value than links from the internal pages.
- Try to make an arrangement for a year at a time – the longer your link stays on a site, the more value it will have with Google.
- Pay monthly if you can.
- Give the blog admin the exact URL and anchored text-link to be used for the link.
- Also give him a description to go with/around your text link – a text-link without any text around it could be viewed negatively by Google.
- Varry your anchored-text as well as the URL for the best results.
- Monitor your link on a regular basis.
Still, visit blogs and leave comments with links to your site, not for the benefits of SEO, but for encouraging other blog visitors to visit your site. That generates traffic/customers and if you have excellent content, could lead to natural links for your site.
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Mithilesh Kumar
Nice Information and nice ideas for those don’t know what is no follow in seo.
3goods
Yes.. many blogs use “nofollow” tag to avoid spam. Link building become more difficult. So i think use Seo Service like mastergoogle would be good if we have no time to do link building.
@Jago Hipnotis
We offer many different link-building strategies. If anyone is interested to advance on that front, please do not hesitate to fill out our form on the home page. In the “issue” section, make sure you put that you’re interested in link-building campaigns.
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@ultratechhost
Yes nice post..very good info.
While paying for backlink gives peace of mid and helps the links to stick longer but most beginners like myself can not afford to do that. I think that’s the main thing that leads most webmaster into blackhat methods like spamming loads of blogs and hope for the best.
@Grants for Single Mothers
But it doesn’t work. Spamming gets you nowhere. At least not for the long run. There are other cheap ways you can get quality links. I will write a new post on this within a few days.
Thank you for this entry.
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At the end of the day, a link is a link. If all your links come from do follow blogs it will not look natural. A good mix of both is always the best choice.
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@Scott
Very good point. We get carried away by always looking for dofollow links. Thanks Scott.
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Thanks for posting this. I found your post in a Google search after wondering if signing in under my Typepad Connect username would be a negative thing, as it was losing me SEO. Guess not!
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In some of my blogs before I understood what this no follow thingy was I would start approving comments as that one of the things I like about blogging. It seemed that the spammers caught on that I was using do follow and started to blow my blog comment fields up to the point where it was at over 100 a day. I did eventually add no follow but that didnt stop them. I gave up with comments, but I did feel bad because some genuine responses could be in the list.
Thank you.
Thanks for saving me time. I thought I came up with a good way to get a good link to my site and didn’t know about the no-follow deal. Makes sense. Can anyone explain how some SEO companies say they can get you genuine back links from PR9 sites that have nothing to do with one’s niche. I checked out some of the sites they mention but see nowhere you can leave a link to one’s site. Some of them are governmental sites. Are these SEO companies lying or do they do this some tricky kind of way? I am not looking to doing that but just curious. Also, is it true that including a link to a PR9 site on one’s site, even if it is not a 2 way link, can benefit one’s own website, too.
God bless,
Sandy
Even using “black-hat” SEO, it is impossible to place your link on a PR9 site – especially if it is a government site. I’d be curious as to how they’d do it. But only one link from such a site is enough to get you ranked where you want.
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Nofollow is the only chance to to have spammed forum. But it is hard to say if it really heps…
@Ali Husayni Dear Ali, Here’s a web site that claims to do this type of linking to PR9 sites. Maybe you can investigate how they do this. If it’s black hat stuff, we should report to Google at least. http://www.forumlinkbuilding.com/view/link_building_services?entireweb08_16_1
I’ve seen this before. Their claim is bogus. For one thing their site has a PR0 (flagged by Google); for the other, they claim to get you a link from http://www.usa.gov... Shamelessly lying.
@Ali Husayni Really? That stinks – so much dishonesty these days. So do they survive with just new naive customers who quit as soon as they see they have been duped? Where can you see that they are flagged by Google? I would like to be able to see if any other site I visit is flagged.
Just check their Page Rank.
If it’s zero that means Google has flagged them or their site has no popularity (which almost means the same thing – that Google gives them no value).
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Interesting post, thanks for your insight. I’m a big proponent of commenting with information that helps people. That’s the best way to get them to link to your site and learn about you. I’ve had more luck with that strategy than with any other
I think its a good site for new ones but as an seo every one has to do their work by self. Remember if you start to depending on others you will always remain on zero. Please read the tips and information on seo and also read the free books. first step is to understand the whole story and than try to implement by yourself.
From reading the comments I think this blog has already been blown up my spammers. I’m taking it that these robots didnt’ read the blog to see that their trackbacks won’t help the SEO of their site.
@Stephen Tong
We get a lot of spam comments and I delete them all… If you see one that’s still there, let me know and I’ll remove it.
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