My earlier article 16 Different Link Building Strategies is a good introduction to this one so I recommend at least skim reading it. This article highlights two methods of increasing targeted traffic to your blog and links as well.
The value of a website from search engines point of view varies according the number of incoming links from external websites with good PageRank . Link building is an “off page’ SEO strategy and refers to the number of links pointing to your site. These links help your site to gain PageRank and perform better in search engine results.
Article Submissions
Writing articles and submitting them for mass distribution is focused on getting anchored backlinks. Write a comprehensive pillar post comprised content that will be of timeless value to your readers. Deep link to your earlier articles in your new one using optimized anchor text. Then submit that article to sites that specialize in mass distributing of articles to thousands of directories. Your article will be indexed by Google and the result will be multiple anchored links pointing to your blog from that article.
The down side is that duplicate content is always problematic and links can drop out of the index as Tim Grice describes in: Mass Article Submissions Are Not Worth It…? . In that article there were four sites that he found that did hold long term link weight:
- – www.goarticles.com
- – www.articlebase.com
- – www.articlemonkeys.com
Commenting
Provided your comments are meaningful, commenting can bring an inflow of targeted readers to your blog that rivals all other unpaid methods. Comment to provide additional information related to the post published by a blogger in your niche, and you will be noticed, especially if what you offer expands the discussion. Leaving behind a trail of high quality comments linked to your blog also increases the likelihood of increase subscribers and backlinks. That’s not to mention that if you comment on “do-follow” blogs you will also get a backlink to your blog.
Kristi says:
Blog commenting is a well known way of link building. But more important than the links you drop in the comments is the links you get from other bloggers in their posts. — How Blog Commenting Has Made a Difference
Keith says:
Yes you should be commenting to get links, but I prefer to look at it as site promotion rather than linkbuilding or SEO. – Comment Links Are Advertising
Generate Traffic with Blog Comments
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ian in hamburg
February 2, 2010
Sometimes commenting results in hits back to your blog, but often it just gets ignored, lost in a sea of hundreds and hundreds of comments. I’ve been commenting much less lately, yet the stats keep going up. Go figure. :-)
timethief
February 4, 2010
Hello Ian,
I have heard over and over again not to leave “empty” comments like “great post” even though I frequently think them. The rule of thumb is to comment only when you have something to add to the discussion. Well, I freely admit that commenting is not my strong suit. I’m an introvert so in most cases I need to think about what I’ve read for awhile in order to comment. When returning to a post I usually find that others have already said the same things I would have said.
Count Sneaky
February 3, 2010
Get well soon. The flu is rough. We have had a rough few weeks; because Helen was diagnosed with colon cancer and the surgery will be tomorrow at 12:30. At this point it appears not to have spread. So I must be offblog for a while. My best.
timethief
February 4, 2010
@Count Sneaky
This is a terrible flu that I have. I’m only able to be up for very short bursts of time before my head starts to spin. My very best wishes to Helen and you with regard to her surgery. I shall be keeping you both in my thoughts, dear friend.
Chrissy
February 3, 2010
I hope you feel better soon. By the way, Im new with WordPress and loving it and thank you for such a great Blogging page!! And all the work you do on the Forums
timethief
February 4, 2010
@Chrissy
Welcome to wordpress.com and thank you for your kind words about my blog. I appreciate the fact that you took the time to comment. Best wishes with your blogging. :)
Desserts Diva
February 3, 2010
Thanks for the helpful information, I’m thoroughly enjoying visiting your site.
timethief
February 4, 2010
@Desserts Diva
Thank you for taking the time to leave me this comment and sgaring your feedback on my blog. Best wishes for happy blogging.
izaakmak
February 3, 2010
Nice! Not only are your thoughts very helpful, the links you provided will be useful for some time to come! :-)
timethief
February 4, 2010
@izaakmak
Hello there. Thanks for the visit and for the compliment too. I appreciate it. :)
Lola
February 12, 2010
Hi Timethief, hope you are well!
I have a comment awaiting moderation and basically a reader asks if I want to link to his blog. Im not going to as his blog subjects have nothing to do with mine and I would never mislead my readers by posting links to unrelated stuff on my blog.
My question is, do I just trash the comment and not reply or is there an etiquette to follow lol
I just want to delete it but Im not sure if asking bloggers for backlinks is a standard practice.
Peace and Blessings,
Lola
timethief
February 12, 2010
Hello there,
When I receive these link to my blog requests from bloggers with unrelated blogs who want me to link my personal blog to theirs, I don’t feel the need to share my email address by replying to them. I mark them as “trash” and delete them.
Lola
February 12, 2010
Ok thank you I decided no fuss and just deleted it. Thanks
timethief
February 13, 2010
You’re welcome.
paulyeo11
February 16, 2010
Hi TT .may I konw after you blog for how long then yr article start to received comment . I think it must be after writing more then 50 article ?
timethief
February 16, 2010
Based on what I have experienced and read, it takes about 4 – 6 months to attract a regular readership, and only 1 out of every 100 readers will leave a comment.
paulyeo11
February 16, 2010
for tthe start what is the motivating factor that keep you with the strong PASSSON for continous writing ?
articles submission
March 20, 2010
Thanks for your nice and good information…
timethief
March 21, 2010
If you check my comment policy 5. Commercial links, post links, signature links, etc. you will find why I removed your link. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/commenting/
Michelle Tukachinsky
May 24, 2010
Thanks for the post. I am always struggling with how much I should use article marketing. I am thinking of one to two good articles to high ranking directories submitted weekly, and posting every other day. The most important thing is always consistency which has been a problem for me.
timethief
May 24, 2010
You’re welcome Michelle.
Aaron K
June 17, 2010
Any advice on finding such ‘dofollow’ sites? Practically everyone uses nodofollow for comment-posters these days.
alas, if we could do something to combat the spam, maybe the internet could be re-legitimized.
timethief
June 17, 2010
No advice sorry. Have you searched? http://dofollow.info/
EvNix
July 2, 2010
Other great resources are writing articles and submitting them to sites like ezinearticles.com and remember if your writing a blog.. you should use PingMyBlog.com to submit your latest blog post to all the blog directories they have listed.
timethief
July 2, 2010
PingMyBlog is bad advice for wordpress.COM users as our blogs are already equipped with pingomatic and if we choose to ping the same sites more than once we run the risk of being perceived to be a ping spammer. See > New content: WordPress.com pings for you See also >
Rub-a-Dub-Dub in the PubSubHubbub
What must be remembered when being paid to write by ezine etc. is that posting duplicate you have already been paid to write your blog can result in a Google penalties for duplicate content unless you employ canonicalization. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
Some bloggers choose to rewrite their paid posts and include 60% new content when posting them to multiple sites and to their own blogs.