Blog commenting is one SEO activity that search engine optimizers must master. It gives you the opportunity to interrelate with relevant blogs all over, enriching your know-how on any topic or theme that you are commenting on.
Mastery of blog commenting means the ability to garner high percentage of approved comments and the skill to tweak the primary keyword into your comment post.
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However, blog commenting could become frustrating when after writing a long and comprehensive blog comment, it would end up being disapproved. Worst, a large doze of comment disapprovals might discourage you, pushing you to put blog commenting as last on your list of SEO activities.
So, what are the three secrets of getting your blog comments be highly approvable?
After working on several blog commenting tasks, I was able to come up with some observations on how to achieve higher approval rate for the comments that you posted.
1. Compose a very relevant SEO comment
Relevance is primary in blog commenting. It is an indicator that you have read the blog and you are sharing what you understand and what you also know. Come up with a relevant SEO comment by the following tips:
- Mention strategically the keywords of the blog post (or the site’s keywords) in your comment, keeping the unity of your thought and organization;
- Make a quick research on the topic being presented and come up with ideas that would enhance the total content of the blog post.
2. Higher PR means quality comments
High page rank sites expect quality comments, which are indicated by the good points that you are bringing in your contents. Usually, high PR sites prefer to have long comments that add up to the quality and quantity of the posts. A simple “Thank you” and “Good post” will never pass for a quality comment.
3. Present positive thought provoking questions and ideas
Your comment ought to stir up productive discussion and not initiate aggression. “Trolling“ should never be the attitude of a good blog commenter. You should never lose your grace whenever you are presenting your ideas or posing a question, especially when you are interacting with fellow commenter.
Try these three secrets now!
Write a comment on the comment box below and see how the secrets work.
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I’ve been doing blog commenting before for SEO purposes and I do agree that a relevant comment is required when posting comments.. Thanks for sharing your two other observations.. To add, placing keywords as your name triggers disapproval of your comment unless you place it as name@keyword which I think is not helpful in getting backlinks.. Please correct me if I’m wrong..
Thank you for your comments Gen. Whether or not you get an outright disapproval for placing a keyword instead of your name into the “name” box is on a case-to-case basis. There are some high PR sites who are so arrogant that they won’t tolerate such actions.
However, there are those who understands SEO and would try to check both the relevance of the blog comment and the site it is linked with, then gave a thumbs up for the comment even if the name used is a keyword.
Browse this http://www.copyblogger.com/fast-writing-improvement/ and find the comment I wrote as “ONLINE WRITING” because I was trying to rank my site for that keyword.
Copyblogger is a PR6 site but I was happy that Brian Clark, owner of the blog, approved my comments.
Well, I must mention that having a real-life photo would convince the blog owner that you are not spamming comments to the site.
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It couldn’t be more true that Blog Commenting is valuable and I foresee it remaining an authoritative element of SEO. This is a great piece you have written and would recommend it to any SEO expert.
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