Comment Backlinks

This is probably the easiest and fastest way to start getting a few backlinks to your site. It will also start to get you noticed by other people who are interested in your niche.

Let's say your niche is cooking and food. All you need to do is go Google up a food blog or cooking blog and look around until you find yourself about three to five sites that really interest you and allow you to leave comments.

You will notice on most sites, you have to fill in your name, email, and website. It will look something like this:



If you do fill in the website, which is almost always optional, it will make your name into a link that leads back to your site. So, if someone likes your comment or wants to learn more about you, they can click that link and it will take them to your site.

The key to this is - you need to actually read the post you're commenting on, read the other comments, and either get involved with the conversation already taking place or try to start a conversation yourself - maybe by asking a question. Remember, if you are asking the question, other people are too.

It dosn't do much good to make generic, lame remarks like the one in the picture above. The reason I left that comment is because I was not trying to get a backlink from his site. I just wanted to thank the author for his awesome work.

I should say that leaving generic remarks still provides a backlink but, in my experience, if you really get involved with the sites discussion, people will use the link and that will do two things. It brings visitors to your site and makes people remember you. It seems to me, Google probably does not lend much weigh to backlinks that never get used.

Getting involved in the communities that are already formed in your niche is vital to building followers. Remember, marketing, even online marketing, is about people not backlinks. SEO is just a tool and needs to be treated as such.

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