One of the greatest ways to advertise your blog, is to comment on others, A lot. A good amount of the top bloggers today got where they are by leaving 50-100 comments a day. Now I don’t expect you to be able to do that, I mean who has the time for that… However, I try and comment 10-20 times a day. Usually it is a little bit fewer then that, but I try and do around that.
So if you comment on blogs, on at least a semi regular basis, then I’m sure you’ve seen this before.
It’s a picture of the information you fill in to leave a comment. Now up till recently I had been filling out the name box like this,
But then one day I had an idea. When you comment on a blog, if you get in the top commentator list, it is a backlink to your site. And then suddenly I realized, the name is the anchortext of the link! Now you may not realize at first the importance of that discovery, so let me explain. For all the people who comment a lot, and are getting links back to their site, they could be using the name box as the anchor text for the links to their site. To test this out, I filled out comments for a couple days in the name box like this.
Wanting to see if it would help with SEO purposes, sure enough within a week, (which is not very much at all,) my site was on the first page on Google for the search term, “how to get traffic.” It has slipped a bit to the second page because I’ve changed my keyword now, but a week before this, I was not even in the top 500! It was then I realized the incredible potential for this discovery. Not only are you advertising your blog and getting traffic by commenting on blogs, you are also getting free links, and really helping the SEO of your site.
So now I decided to really implement this great find. Because the term, how to get traffic didn’t get quite as many searches a day as I wanted, I decided to switch again to a new one. Now I fill it out like this,
If you’ve seen that term before on a site, in a top commentator list then that’s me. The term how to blog, is a much more competitive term then how to get traffic, according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, it gets about 74,000 hits per month, which should be a nice amount of traffic if I can get on the first page.
Now I’ve only been gathering links for my site under that term for less then a week, and yet already. From not being in the first 500 (probably more but I didn’t look further) mastersofseo is currently number 58. Which isn’t high enough to start getting traffic, but to be in the top 100 after only a couple days, with no extra effort from me is incredible. And just think of the massive amounts of traffic that will be visiting my site in a couple weeks/months however long it takes to crack the first page.
Now after I realized this, I was like well, this is relatively obvious, I’m sure everybody else knows about it. However, Like nobody realizes it!!! Look at this picture of John Chow’s top commentator list.
Now those anchor texts are fine if your trying to rank for, TYCP Entertainment Magazine, ZK@WebTrafficROI, Keral Patel, Ben Pei, Affiliate Confession, BusinessX, Steven-Sanders, Danny Cooper, Ryan McLean, and Mike Huang. But those search terms will get tiny amounts of traffic compared to how to blog, or something along that lines. When I was using mastersofseo as the name of my comments, I was helping my site rank for mastersofseo, but I already rank for that lol. And unfortunately nobody types that in anyway, so my SEO tip for you is, to find a search term that your site can rank for, and then check the amount of searches using the Google Keyword Tool. If it’s getting enough, then make that term the search term of your comments, just make sure that it is something relevant to your blog, because remember, the point is not to spam, it’s to advertise your site. My blog is about how to blog, and so I’m not spamming. This tip is really useful and I hope your able to put it to good use.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Hi. How are you? It’s nice to read your blog. Keep on working on it. So, I drop EC for you. Don’t forget to Keep on Smiling. Salaam.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Hey, thanks. This is a great way to increase site traffic!
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November 3rd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I also use Google trends…many people don’t know it, but Google provides lots of free tools that can really help you increase your earnings online.
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November 4th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Great post - I’m taking your advice! I appreciate what you are doing with this blog.
Thx
Zach
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November 4th, 2008 at 2:42 am
That’s a great idea! Thanks for the tip, I guess I will start with you
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November 4th, 2008 at 6:45 am
This is ready a good information for more traffic. This is the first time I hear about this, thanks.
Have a nice day.
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November 4th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Awesome work. I’m jumping on this bandwagon.
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November 4th, 2008 at 7:57 am
The reason is that most people think that it is more like spam. Because that is not your name, although most do it and I did it as well!
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November 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
This is by far the most helpful tips on commenting and seo I have seen this year!
Gonna subscribe to your blog!
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November 4th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Great information, but out of all the blogposts I read I ussually have nothing significant to add in the comment section. The posts may be great, but I feel like such a spammer for writing :”Great post, keep up the good work.” You know?
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November 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
But what about those nofollow links. All the links are nofollow for comments and isn’t it possible that the blog owner reject the comment if he sees the anchor text for your blog in the name field?
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November 4th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Yes Bishal, it’s VERY possible and many bloggers are jumping on this wagon because 9 x outs 10 a keyworded name field is obviously there purely for the backlink.
As I was going to say, you’re not spamming only if the blogger agrees and keeps the comment. That’s why we have comment policies.
There’s a pretty good chance it’s not getting through on my blog if there is no name anywhere.
At the very LEAST as a signature.
Oh and there are MANY now with the do-follow plugin.
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November 4th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
What a fantastic idea. Bravo.
As you can see, this is the first of many posts with my new keyword search term, urm I meant username
Cheers for this great tip, the best tip I’ve read on SEO so far.
I’ve subscribed also, it’ll be rude not to, after giving this little gem of information away.
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November 5th, 2008 at 12:20 am
That’s a great tip. Can i use a name plus the keyword? maybe enclose it in parentheses or quotations?
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November 5th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Thanks man, good info and very well educations
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November 5th, 2008 at 1:40 am
What a great tip! Thanks MOS.
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November 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Name@keyword should be acceptable to most bloggers…I know it’s ok with me.
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November 6th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Choosing the keyword “how to blog” appears to be a better choice than a more competitive search term like “master of seo”.
On the other hand, I think some blog owners are not welcoming the use of keyword while commenting but you’ve made some excellent points here. It’s good that you share some of your SEO experience with us here.
Yan
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November 9th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Thanks for the tips!!
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November 11th, 2008 at 4:54 am
You have some interesting stuff and advice on this blog
Bob
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