Building quality one-way links is a key in good search engine rankings. One great way to do this is to comment on blogs. When doing this, there are a couple of ‘do’s’and ‘dont’s’that I would like to point out, and I’ll walk through some steps to finding blogs, and what types of blogs you should comment on. 

The best blogs you can comment on are high PR (definition of PR) blogs that are relevant to your website. You can go with low PR blogs that are relevant to your site, or high PR blogs that are not relevant to your site. Neither of those are as good, but both will work.

So how do you find a high-ranking blog that’s relevant to your site? Simple answer: Google. Just search for some term that’s relevant to your site, and tack on ‘blog’at the end. For starters, you probably want to do at least ten blogs (you can always go back and do more later). If no blogs seem to show up under your search term, you can either try a different term, or go to a good blog directory and look around in there. Be resourceful.

So you’ve found a good blog that seems to be legitimate, and has good posts. Just comment on a post with a link back to your blog? Bad idea. What you don’t want to do is spam. Spamming is bad, and anyone trying to do anything legitimate should stay away from spam. Don’t put unrelevant material where it doesn’t belong, because it annoys people, and they will ignore it. What you want to do is read the post. I know, it takes time, but you don’t have to read it thouroughly. Just skim it, and find something that you can comment on. For example: "I liked that post. X point was quite interesting," or something of the sort. Then just leave a hypertext link back to your blog. Make it as if the link was your name, or your signature. If the site doesn’t allow html, then just post your url with the "http://".

If you don’t have the time to read the post, or if you’re in a hurry, then you can always say ‘nice post’and then sign it with your site. But you’re more likely to be considered a spammer, and the blog owner may delete your comment. It’s up to you.