Times in the past, blog commenting was one of the major and traditional link-building tactics.
Due to recent changes in search algorithms, Google is no longer considering it as part of the ways to build links.
Google Devaluing Blog Commenting for Link Building
After Google had made a resolution on the issue of spam comments being left on blogs to get lots of backlinks, it cracked down on blog commenting for SEO.
Google realized that by giving incentives to comment links, spammers went extra miles in abusing this to get blogs polluted with irrelevant and sub quality comments. You too would have seen a few blogs that were polluted with lots of generic comments praising the blog authors and telling them to keep up the great work.
If some links are so easy to build, such must be completely pointless for search engine optimization (SEO). So far several blog authors don’t bother to manually approve comments, it calls for rendering commenting pointless for SEO.
Though technically Google is still awarding particular incentives to quality and relevant blog comments as a reward for engagement, they‘re no longer as pointing to search ranking as before. It isn’t feasible any more to seriously improve Page Rank with commenting alone.
Therefore Should We Now Say Blog Commenting is No Longer Useful for Ranking?
If this is nothing but the case, why do we still have to keep on with the tutorial? It should end here of course if that was the case. The fact is that lots of incentives still exist for commenting. Credits still go to commenting that is done the right way.
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Israel Olatunji
Anyhow, great information, Israel!
I've noticed though that as I am getting comments from WA my rankings are moving up. Is this due to the activity on the blog? I mean since you said that Google no longer considers them for SEO, which I can understand.
I don't know, it could be a factor of many things now that I think about it because, I have followed your training and been publishing quite frequently, and I must say that you and your training has helped me out a lot.
My traffic is increasing, so is my authority slowly but, surely. I also am now getting better rankings from all of your suggestions. Plus, I'm even starting to get some referrals by organic search.
Anyhow, I will still get and leave comments, as this could help out with exposure.
Thank you, so much Israel, you don't know how much your training has helped me.
Comments that you get on your own blog are definitely considered positive by Google because it shows that visitors are engaging with you. So that's definitely a plus for SEO.
I believe what he's talking about here is comments that you would leave on the site of an authority blogger with a link back to your site. So many people started leaving low quality and spam comments just to get a backlink that Google has devalued those kinds of comments.
Oh okay, thank you for explaining that to me. I understand now, and I think you're right, it makes a lot of sense to me now. Thank you, so much for your response.
Thanks for finding my trainings useful for your blog! See you at the top soon!
Israel Olatunji
Israel Olatunji
Israel Olatunji
