Bretts Marketing Bytes

In the old days, say 2 or 3 years ago, blog commenting  used to be a great method to get links to your site. However, Google and other search engines have been telling us recently that these are really a waste of time for SEO’s due to the “no-follow” attribute tag that most blog commenting software utilizes these days.

So should you stop commenting on blogs? Well quite honestly, I still believe commenting on blogs is a great place to get links and network with other bloggers. When you build relationships with other bloggers, you increase the chances that they might link to you using the “do-follow” attribute in a future post.

Blog comments also get read by people and these people are who you want to visit your site, right? And of course, there is always the possibility that those people will click on your link, especially if it is relevant to what they are reading.

One thing that drives me crazy is comment spammers. They leave comments on my blog that don’t make any sense. Geez, at least act like you read my post and I might give you a chance. Don’t these people know that as the blog administrator, I approve these?

My point is if you are going to be doing blog commenting, make sure you spend the time to read the post first and I’ll bet it will get approved by the administrator.

In short, blog commenting is still very much alive from an SEO standpoint and Social Networking perspective.

Continue to build your online networks using blog comments and you will be pleasantly surprised at the positive impact that it has on your blog or website.

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