Blog Commenting

In my previous tutorials you've learned how to obtain backlinks from article submission and social bookmarking sites. Now I'm going to teach you about blog commenting. Most of you will already be aware of how to use blog commenting to obtain backlinks, but I'm going to be teaching you a little secret that I use to ensure I only make comments on relevant blogs.

CommentLuv and KeywordLuv

When commenting on most blogs, you must unfortunately put your real name as the anchor text in order to have your comment approved. Names such as 'Free MP3's' will often be considered spammy, and unfortunately result in you missing out on having relevant anchor text. Furthermore, most blogs also contain the 'nofollow' attribute, which as you're aware is a way of telling Google not to pass any Page Rank through to your site.

I'm going to teach you a way to make comments on blogs that are relevant to the keyword phrase you're targeting, that will let you use any anchor text you wish, and that don't contain the 'nofollow' attribute.

What you want to do is look for blogs that have either the CommentLuv or KeywordLuv plugin. These plugins are fantastic and blogs that contain them will allow you to use relevant anchor text for your name.

For KeywordLuv blogs, you will want to put Name @ Keyword in the 'Name' field - Example: Steven @ Car Tires. You will then want to submit your website address within the website field. Have a look at the below screenshot for an example -

For CommentLuv blogs, you will want to use your proper name in the Name field. CommentLuv will automatically pass a link back to your website with the title of your last blog post. Have a look at the screenshot below for an example -

Always make sure that your posts are relevant to the discussion. Don't submit posts such as "Nice Post" as they will quickly get your IP Address blacklisted.

Now some CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plugins may have the 'Nofollow' command. You will want to check the Page Source to see if other comments have the 'rel="nofollow"' attribute next to their links.

Remember from my previous tutorials that you shouldn't just dismiss all blogs that contain Nofollow. Nofollow is still worth something in Yahoo and MSN. The main thing you're after is the relevant anchor text.

Finding CommentLuv and KeywordLuv Blogs

So you may just be wondering how to find blogs that contain the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plugins? Thankfully the process is incredibly easy.

You see, every site that uses either of these plugins has a little note at the end of it, advertising the plugin. All you have to do is do a Google search for this note, and all blogs that use these plugins will be displayed.

So to find blogs using KeywordLuv, simply copy and paste the following phrase into Google, exactly as it appears (make sure to include the quotation marks "") -

"This site uses KeywordLuv. Enter YourName@YourKeywordsin the Name field to take advantage."

Now in order to find blogs using CommentLuv, simply copy and paste the following into Google -

"Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you"

So now you have over 200,000 blogs to comment on. That's a bit too many, isn't it? What I'm going to teach you now is how to only bring up KeywordLuv and CommentLuv blogs that are relevant to the keywords you're targeting.

All you need to do is simply type the keyword you're targeting in the Google search box, along with the KeywordLuv or CommentLuv footprint.

This will only bring up sites that contain the plugin you're looking for, and that also contain the keyword you're looking for.

Let's say we wanted to look for CommentLuv blogs that contained the words "Internet Marketing" somewhere on the page.

To do this you would type the following into Google search: "Internet Marketing" "Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you"

Notice we typed our keyword phrase "Internet Marketing" in quotations along with the CommentLuv footprint.

Now sometimes, particularly in less competitive niches, you'll notice that no results get returned with your keyword phrase. If that's the case, then you may only want to target specific keywords.

For example, if we tried to search for "Car Tires" "Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you" then we don't get any results (at the time of writing this).

If however we search for just "Tires" "Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you" then we do get some results of blogs that contain the word "tires" along with the CommentLuv plugin.

Whilst commenting on these partial matching blogs isn't as good as commenting on blogs that match our full keyword phrase, we do still get some authority, provided we use the word "Tire" in our anchor text when making the comment.

Link Diversity

By making comments on lots of different but relevant blogs, we're increasing our link diversity (the type of sites that point to ours). The more types of backlinks we have the better. So if we can get backlinks from Article Submission, Social Bookmarking sites and from lots of relevant, different blogs, then we're doing ourselves a great favour in terms of link diversity, and we will gain more trust in Google.

When posting blog comments, remember to still follow the principles of Keyword Targeting, as was covered in the previous section. Don't just use your broad keyword as your anchor, instead use long-tail keywords that contain your broad keyword, and link them to a separate page on your site that is optimised specificaly for that long-tail keyword phrase.

For example: When making a comment, your website anchor text should consist of "cheap car tires" as opposed to just "car tires".