How to Get Backlinks from Your Blog Comments Without Getting Booted for SPAM

If there’s anything out there that’s just as much fun as blogging, it’s hopping around and participating on other people’s blogs. Not only are blog comments a great chance to build a reputation online for knowing what you’re talking about, and to influence the trends and behaviors of other blogs, they’re also a great way to build some SEO recognition through your backlinks.

When you’re trying to build up some backlinks through commenting you have to be careful though. Blogs aren’t really meant to be an advertising medium, despite what some people seem to think. I once had a visitor leave a link to their Rakim and Ken-y website on a fashion blog. I was like, really? I mean, really? How shameless can you get!

Blog commenting requires a certain degree of discretion along with link promotion, or you’re going to find yourself booted by the site admin for SPAM. I take great pleasure in deleting pointless backlinking attempts from my blog! If your blog comments are going to build your backlinks along with your reputation, you have to know what you’re doing first.

There are a couple of simple rules for effective backlinking. First and foremost, choose your blogs with discretion. Your blog caters to a niche market, right? If you’re trying to build a reputation in that niche market you need to comment on blogs in your niche. Common sense!

When you find a blog that seems to cater to a similar target audience, make your comments count. Senseless drivel isn’t going to generate any kind of discussion, and it’s definitely not going to encourage your readers to follow your link back to your website. Blog comments are meant to be a discussion, not a promotion. Pretend you were looking the blog admin in the eyes when you comment on their post. If you wouldn’t say it to their face, don’t say it on their blog.

Don’t actively mention your links in the body of your comments. That’s just a little too obvious. Remember, subtlety is the name of the game in the social media game. You don’t want people to know you’re trying to promote a link. You just want them to know you’ve got something to say! Instead, put your anchor text in the name field of your comment, and include a hyperlink to your site if it will let you. Most blog comments also give you the chance to put your site URL with your name; take advantage of that.

Repeat this process 50-100 times and watch your backlinks boom!

After you’ve written your comment, don’t forget to check back every once in a while. You want to see if you’ve been published, and whether or not you’re getting link value. Plus, there’s always the off chance that someone has commented or asked a question about your comment that you’re going to need to reply to. There’s nothing more irritating to a dedicated blog reader than asking a question and being completely ignored.

Remember, the people reading this blog and responding to your blog comments are going to be the same people reading yours. The last thing you want is for them to think you’re only in it for the exposure. There’s no quicker way to kill your blog following and your own future success.

Sometime ago I posted a video on my personal blog www.SriniSaripalli.com addressing this whole blog commenting issue. Here it is, I’m sure you will find it educational