Too many Blog Comment Links can be Harmful
Many webmasters and website owners today have changed their focus from reciprocal links to non-reciprocal / one-way links due to the importance Search Engines give to one-way non-reciprocal links. There are a number of strategies that can be adopted to increase the number of one way, incoming links to a website. One of these, which you’ll come across, while reading many link building and development guides, is Blog Comments.
Leaving Useful Comments on blogs related to your niche is no doubt a very good idea to get links and users to your website. It is the easiest and most targeted method through which people will find you and will link to you if you provide useful comments and are a regular visitor to those blogs.
However, there is a very fine line in using Blog Commenting the ‘Ethical Way‘ and the ‘Unethical Way‘. If most of the incoming links to a website are from Blogs, and specifically from Blog Comments, Search Engines might end up penalizing your website.
Search Engines now consider websites that have a high percentage of links from Blogs as ‘Bad Neighborhood‘ sites. Domains that have a high occurrence of links that appear to be from blogs may be penalized by Search Engines. It may be normal for blogs and forums to have lots of incoming links from blogs, but for many commercial websites, a large percentage of links from blogs could indicate an attempt to increase search engine rankings through blog comment spamming.
So if you have a new website, and you plan to promote it and bring traffic and users to it through blog comments, make sure you have some other methods of attracting links to your website also, to even it all out. Incoming links from Blogs only can be harmful for your website.
Faisal said,
April 19, 2007 @ 5:16 am
Attribute called “nofollow” with rel=”nofollow” being the format inserted within an anchor tag. When added to any link, it means that the link has not been explicitly approved by the site owner. so If we allow site users to include links in their comments, add rel=”nofollow” to the tag, as shown below:
mywebsite.com
This technique allows search engines bots to ignore the link, so the spammer gains no benefit from adding links to comments, forums and guest books.
lol. i think this is the best way to stop comment spam but some webmasters include links in their comments to index their page in search engine. i think this is the best way to index webpages.
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April 26, 2007 @ 9:53 pm
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Fat Aussie said,
May 16, 2007 @ 2:38 am
Nice post, but now Im scared to leave blog comments!!
I guess we can do it without URL’s?
admin said,
May 17, 2007 @ 2:54 am
You can leave blog comments without a link, but my point here was to balance your links with links from several sources. If you are getting links from blogs, also try and get links from other sites, link directories, forums etc. to even it out. Don’t focus on Blog links only.
LennyP said,
May 25, 2007 @ 2:51 am
It is always a good idea to vary your link sources. Focusing on any one type of link can hurt you. Not just comments.
admin said,
May 25, 2007 @ 7:09 am
That’s true. Only focusing on reciprocal links can also be harmful for a site. One should always try and vary the type of incoming links to their site.
Web Directory Owner said,
June 10, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Can you please tell me where you got this information?
Mike said,
July 31, 2007 @ 3:03 am
Quote: ” Search Engines now consider websites that have a high percentage of links from Blogs as ‘Bad Neighborhood‘ sites. ”
Where do you got this from? Did you make this experiment or have you read it somewhere? You can’t say that links from blogs will catalog your site as a bad Neighbourhood, no way. Especially if those are quality links, from quality blogs, and not links resulted from a spamming campaign.
LennyP got to the point. The ideea is to vary your link sources. But that doesn’t mean that blog links are a bad thing.
admin said,
July 31, 2007 @ 9:25 am
I got this information after using a Tool for Bad Neighborhood. You can visit the tool at www.bad-neighborhood.com
It detects and reviews the websites which you have linked from your website and will tell you if they are good sites or bad sites. It could be wrong, and I could be wrong in writing this post, but I came across it and blogged about it. As for link diversity, that is always best
Mike said,
August 1, 2007 @ 12:53 am
Well, if that tool is indeed correct, both our blogs are in the “Blog spam” category. That means we get most of our links from blogs. OK, but isn’t this the idea of blogging? Interacting with other people and fellow bloggers? Anyway, I’ll look into this tool and the subject with a little more attention.