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March 4, 2009 · General · 1,811 views ·
Blog comments are a legitimate way many SEOs use for getting backlinks to their blogs and sites. Commenting on blogs often brings new RSS subscribers if your comments on other blogs are interesting and insighful; here are some more points that might excite you about this technique:
1. Blog owners get to know you better. It becomes easier for you to exchage banners / links / services or even blogposts if blog owners know you as a regular reader.
2. Other regular readers also start recognize you and will conider visiting your blog.
3. You get a free one way backlink to your website/blog from a page with relevant content (assuming you are using blogs in your niche)
4. Depending on blog’s template and plugins you can get link from blog’s homepage
2. Other regular readers also start recognize you and will conider visiting your blog.
3. You get a free one way backlink to your website/blog from a page with relevant content (assuming you are using blogs in your niche)
4. Depending on blog’s template and plugins you can get link from blog’s homepage
Many bloggers like to reward their readers by removing nofollow from comment links and these blogs are excellent place to get backlinks while indulging in a healthy discussion. Some bloggers go even further and use a plug-in called commentluv; it is a very smart plug-in that looks for latest blog post by the person leaving a comment and includes a link to the post in comment. Commentluv rewards commentors by giving them 2 links instead of one usually given by normal blogs. The second link is for latest blog post on the domain used by commentor.
What if you don’t have a blog? Everyone with a blog is getting an extra link whenever they leave a comment. I will share a trick here that can be used to get an extra link for any site on commentluv enabled blogs.
First step is to make a rss feed file rss.xml using the template given below. Don’t forget to replace the title and URLs with your title and URL. Choose your title carefully as this title will be used as anchor text in the comment.
You are also expected to keep atleast 3 <em>items</em> for commentluv to recognize your RSS feed. You may choose to add more RSS tags like author, publish date, website title/URL etc.
<pre>
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<rss version=”2.0″
xmlns:content=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”
xmlns:wfw=”http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/”
xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”
xmlns:sy=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/”
>
<rss version=”2.0″
xmlns:content=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”
xmlns:wfw=”http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/”
xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
xmlns:atom=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”
xmlns:sy=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/”
>
<channel>
<item>
<title>Title 1</title>
<link>http://yourdomain.tld/some-internal-page</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Title 2</title>
<link>http://yourdomain.tld/another-internal-page</link>
</item>
<item>
<title>Title 3</title>
<link>http://yourdomain.tld/third-page</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
<item>
<title>Title 1</title>
<link>http://yourdomain.tld/some-internal-page</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Title 2</title>
<link>http://yourdomain.tld/another-internal-page</link>
</item>
<item>
<title>Title 3</title>
<link>http://yourdomain.tld/third-page</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
</pre>
Once you have made this file and have uploaded it to your server, you need to fool the feed auto-discovery process to recognize your feed. Assuming you uploaded the file at www.domain.tld/rss.xml you need following code in your homepage header.
<pre>
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Your Title” href=”http://www.domain.tld/rss.xml” />
</pre>
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Your Title” href=”http://www.domain.tld/rss.xml” />
</pre>
You may choose a different location or filename for the RSS feed we just prepared and should be substituting the RSS URL in following code accordingly.
Upload this change and you are now ready to get more than one link when you comment on commentluv blog. You can get links to any internal page you like. If you know a little bit of programming, you could randomize the link that will appear on the RSS feed.
Keep in mind that while bloggers don’t like keywords to be used as name for person leaving a comment, but with this method your RSS feed can have the desired keywords, since you are writing a custom title it need not be same as your page title.
Today’s guest blogger, Jeet keeps looking for new tricks to promote his websites and maintains free directory list http://www.directoryroll.com/ when he is not writing programs.
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Nice to see a new post from you.
This is a solid tip. Thanks for posting the info.
This site has a blog, but I do have some internal static pages. This is a good way to have some links to them.
cd :O)
I am actually suprised anyone still comments on this blog
I really should vamp up this blog and work on it more, im just so busy.
Very clever! I thought someone would come up with this when I first coded the backed script for CommentLuv and I even put some code into it to prevent this method from being used for spam.
I’m surprised it took this long for someone to publish how to choose your own links to be returned.
There are certain link types that will be rejected if the commentluv server sees then as the permalink to a post within the feed that is returned for a given url so make sure that you use legitimate sites in the feed you make and everything will be hunky dorey
It wont be needed soon though because there is a new version of CommentLuv coming out that will allow you to return more than just blog posts, it’ll do tweets, diggs and even a specific link and anchor text that you specify in your profile at the new site.
You will also be able to create your own Wp2.7.1 blog at the new site and have that included in your returned posts along with other blogs you own so there will be a much simpler way to have links of your own choosing being returned when you comment on the new commentluv sites.
private beta invites will be going out soon so keep an eye out on the CommentLuv news and on Twitter for first looksies