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November 28, 2007
When you leave comments on a blog post, do you ever concern the benefits beside satisfying your need to say out opinions? Most likely not, and this article may make you change your mind and teach you how to comment the smarter way.
Why comment smartly?
Search engine relies on links to calculate link popularity and hence prioritize pages on the search results. If you have a website or blog you would like to have the search engines to recognize it.
One method of building link popularity is to include your home page address in the comments that you leave on other blogs. However, most of those blogs block search engines from seeing your address.
Fortunately, there are aware and open-minded bloggers who realized the issue. They use some plugin to remove the nofollow tag and open the search engine vision to those links. The links to your website on those blogs are search engine friendly and count toward your link popularity (hence PageRank).
It is white-hat-SEO if you really do participate on the discussions. Otherwise it is black-hat-SEO if you just spam out messages unrelated to the topic written on those blogs.
There are many lists of those blogs on the Internet. However those lists are very limited because you don't know how many blog you have to click before you find the one you like. But that's about to change.
Dofollow Search Engine
CommentHunt is search engine that let you search high PageRank blogs those don't have nofollow tag. Hence you can improve your own link popularity by actively participating in discussions on those blogs.
With this tool, now you can gain the benefit of searching, discussing, and building link popularity at the same time.
I found it by reading Commenthunt helps you build links to increase website traffic. I tried tried it out, it works.
What's next?
I will definitely use this tool to search for the things I need and discuss it on the way. I prefer a stone get 2 birds, to both have passionate discussion and SEO.
Please, don't be too greedy and hold yourself back from participating on nofollow blogs. You gain more benefit from commenting on the same topics of interest, especially related to your website, then dofollow but unrelated topics.
In fact, I like this brilliant idea, and I know how to do it. Wait for my version of similar search engine with more features.
Tags: commenting, how-to, PageRank, SEO, tools
This is a new thing: it is the first time I hear about commenthunt, and you can be sure I'm going to give it a try. I also removed no-follow on my blog, and I can say that I did not record an increase of spam in comments.
Hi Simonne, thanks for coming by. How did you get here? Yes, nofollow or non-nofollow doesn't make any different in spam rate. Spams only get through if you don't have your protection. Normally, spammers don't know if your blog is nofollow or non-nofollow. Anyway, you got my attention, so expect some comments from me on your site
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I think I was searching for "group writing projects" on Technorati and your blog showed up in the results, or I clicked on other result and I got to your blog from there. I'm currently hosting a group writing project, so if you are interested, you are welcome to join.
Simonne » So it's Technorati brought you here. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
really good advice.
certainly will do.
-michael
http://mmichaell10-technews.blogspot.com/
Thanks a lot...I was just browsing through your blog and this post was really good as it talked about SEO in a non-technical way even a comman man can understand...good work
Sudarshan » I'm very glad it is easy for you to understand. I'm actually very technical minded, but I want to write for the non-tech readers, so I hope I can improve more.