Many times when people come on your website after doing a search, they will scroll down and read your comments. This is a chance for you to capture a new referral or customer without them reading your post, but only if there is an affiliate link in the comments.
For example, let us say you did a review about a MacBook Pro and in this review there are a couple of affiliate links. You could add one or two more in your comments if there is a substantial amount of comments. You definitely want to be subtle inserting affiliate links..
It is very important that you DO NOT put many affiliate links within your comments. Let us say you had up to 10 comments on your MacBook Pro review, 1 affiliate link would be enough. If warranted I generally go with 1 affiliate link for every 10 comments.
The above image is from a review on my Legitimate Job From Home website about why Worldwide Brands is the Gold Standard when it comes to finding real wholesale suppliers that offer free drop shipping. The text in blue is an affiliate link within my comment response.
I have a total of 35 comments on this review and the content of the review has three affiliate links, a text link, a banner ad link, and a video link. I can possibly gain more customers by including a couple more affiliate links in the comments, where I currently have three.
If you were to scroll through all 35 comments you will see that these affiliate links are about 10 or 11 comments apart. I do not want to seem like I am spamming the comments area, so when inserting affiliate links make sure you are very subtle.
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When this happens to me and the comment is relevant to my post, I will most times do a Quick Edit of their comment and take out the link. If their comment is not relevant to my post I just delete the entire comment.
Most of my comment replies are made without links to other pages or products. But, when it comes up in the reply, I will add a link to more information - or, a product that I recommend - to give the commenter more to go on. I don't think too much about keeping links to 10% or less - but, it probably works out that way.
The one thing that bugs me is my theme automatically makes my links red. I can change them in my posts to the familiar blue, but, SiteComments and WordPress don't give me that option for the comment section. Any ideas on that?
Jim
Your approach to commenting is the way it should be done. Only provide the link if the comment warrants that you do so. When the link is an affiliate link, like Kyle says in his training, it should only be in the comments of the relevant review.
Wow! That is a head-scratcher. I have never seen something like that before. Have you looked into the theme settings to see if there is a default color for links that you can change? What theme are you using?
Jim
I believe backlinks still play some roles but as you mention it has to be from sites that have higher authority(Not necessary Wikipedia).
I believe Google is going to slowly reduce its importance but for brand new websites how do they judge the value of the site?
I believe it still comes back to the number of quality links + brand mentions online + engagement.
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ZhengYu
He says that Google considers backlinks as a very minor ranking factor because they are no longer needed to determine authority and SEO rankings.
Google judges the value of a website based mainly on the quality of your content first and foremost, your target and LSI keywords second, click data third, and comment engagement last.
To read about what David told me about SEO and how Google is now ranking websites, you can read my parts 1 & 2 blogs called I Had Dinner With Google Last Night at the link below. I Had Dinner With Google Last Night But in short, backlinks are no longer needed to get high rankings and authority on Google and the search engines.
