Blog Comments
If you’ve ever read a blog’s comments section, then you’ve probably come across a comment that was submitted for the sole purpose of generating a backlink. The comment usually reads like gibberish, but has a whole bunch of keywords and links peppered within it.
In order to neutralize these sorts of comments, there are all sorts of spam blockers for blogs (with Akismet being one of the most used) and there are NoFollow HTML codes that prevent search engines from giving any credit for these comments.
That being said, commenting on blogs can still be a great way to build buzz and traffic for your site.
Add Value
The concept of blog comments is to some extent a very important valuable contribution. For example, if you read a popular blog in your niche and you have an opinion or idea related to a post, then comment on it and feel free to leave a link to your website. When the administrator of the blog sees your comment, the value of what you wrote in advancing the blog’s community far outweighs the small favor of providing a backlink, so they will likely keep the comment live.
If you comment regularly on a certain blog (or series of blogs), then you can begin to develop a relationship with other people in your niche. These people will visit your site and may even link to you or reference you in their posts if the content you provide is worthwhile.
Commenting in this manner, helps out both parties. The blogger builds his community and makes it more likely that other readers will engage in a conversation and keep coming back, and you get a valuable backlink to your site from a blog that focuses on your niche, ensuring targeted traffic.
Another Place Worth Adding Value
Social Networks that have a target audence is a good place to use to add value. It is for this reason I built ViralNetworks! The concept is to build a good reputation among your peers and make million $ fortune you hear around as well as get people to like and trust your and your product. (These are the only reasons people will buy your products, if they know, like and trust you or of course, your product).
Colin Klinkert is a full time internet marketer making high six figures a year online. He runs many membership sites, one of which makes over a million a year in revenue.
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hum, what you say is right, i am being spammed all the time. but… still, when you do real “commenting” (not with an automated software), you can build a community around your passion, create links between blogs and help be part of a group.
for “Social Networks”, now that facebook pages are public, it becomes also an interesting approach to comment there.