How do you start increasing your search traffic and building links if you have no cash and no connections?
The answer is simple:
But what is blog commenting? Well…
What Will I Learn?
Blog commenting for SEO is defined as a simple strategy to start building links back to your site while building strong relationships with people in your industry.
It is about exchanging ideas or opinions about what people think or feel about a topic. It can also help blogs to attract traffic, leads, and add a ‘social touch.’
And, if you’re a new SEO who isn’t taking advantage of this strategy, you’re missing out on a world of potential that your competitors are going to use to beat you.
(You snooze you lose, right?).
Bellow, I’ll show you what blog commenting for backlinks is, how to use it and why it’s an important part of the link building process.
PRO TIP: Before starting any link building campaign, it’s best to determine how many backlinks you need to rank.
Blog commenting is simply leaving a value-adding message in the “comments” section of a blog and the earlier the better.
They’re one of the simplest and easiest ways to start building links to your website.
At the end of many posts you’ll see a form where you can add your personal information:
It’s important that it has the option to add your website as part of the information.
This means you can include a link back to your site, that anyone who reads your comment can click. Link building in its simplest form, right?
Now, these links don’t carry lots of direct “link juice” that will send you up the rankings.
But these links do contribute to your website’s link profile.
If you’re getting links back from your comments on large well-established blogs, Google & editors are going to take notice.
Blog comments also come with two other great benefits:
Because if someone comes across a three-hundred word comment at the bottom of a blog post that adds tonnes of value (see below) they’re going to take notice of that as well:
Website owners use blog comments to help them grow successful online businesses.
Ryan Biddulph of Blogging From Paradise credits his success to blog commenting. His comments on my blog were so valuable it led to him getting featured to my full email list.
The relationship he built through his comments, lead to a really valuable link building and traffic opportunity through being a guest poster on the blog.
Powerful stuff.
There is a ton of SEO value in blog comments.
Okay, that’s the “why”; let’s take a look at the “how”…
There is an art to blog commenting for SEO.
That means comments like this aren’t going to cut it:
Think in terms of a mini blog post. It should add value or continue the discussion.
This is important to remember because blog owners have to approve your comments. If it’s not value adding or worthwhile for them to have it on their blog, it’ll get rejected.
Here’s an example comment that would get approved:
“Hey Dan,
You did an excellent job on this post! I’d like to add an extra productivity tip to your list if you don’t mind?
I find that when I fast in a morning – that is, I get up, drink a coffee and get straight to work – my productivity is 10 TIMES better than when I’ve eaten. I thought it would be the other way around, or that I’d struggle without food, but I really do thrive.
The people in my coaching community have found this to be helpful, too! Something worth trying.
Have a great day,
Matthew
I’d say that around 1 in every 250 comments I process on the blog go beyond one-line.
Comments like the above really stand out because it’s rare to see such engagement in this busy world – this means it is VERY EASY for you to stand out from the crowd.
Here are some blog commenting tips and best practices you should follow:
Pretty simple right?
As Neil Patel found, getting the first blog comment generates the most traffic and gets the most attention.
How do you find blog commenting opportunities and ensure you get the first comment?
It’s pretty simple… Identify the blogs you want to comment on, get notified of their new posts and then leave your comment.
Let’s take a closer look…
Finding the blogs you want to comment on can be pretty simple.
For this I use Feedly.
Sign up for a free account and you can search for blogs based around certain topics:
You can then find lots of sites to add to your “feed”.
Just click “follow” and away you go:
Take a couple of minutes to add blogs to your feed before moving onto the next step.
It’ll help you out massively.
With your feed in place, you will start to get email notifications about the latest posts on your favourite blogs.
They’ll also show up on your home screen here:
A second step you can take is…
If you head to the search bar at the top of the page and enter in your keyword (eg: productivity) you can choose to set up a Google News alert around this topic.
This will now send you immediate updates about all of the new content around this topic.
When you receive a notification it’s important that you act fast.
You ideally want to get the first comment.
But the higher up the page (closer to the content) the better. So as soon as you get a notification, get in there and leave your comment!
Blog comments have powerful SEO, networking and traffic benefits.
You should regularly be leaving value-adding, long-form comments on regular blogs in your niche to help with your link building & wider digital marketing strategy.
Be sure to use your:
…and never leave spam.
If you want to get notified about blog commenting opportunities you can sign up for Feedly and use them to create in-app and Google News alerts you can quickly act upon.
Note: You can not use blog commenting to get edu backlinks or gov backlinks.
Next up, I’m going to show you another powerful white hat link building strategy for those who are just starting their link building campaign… Testimonial Link Building.
Or, if you want to outsource it, check out my review of the top link building services.
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Very valuable information on SEO and how we can use it on blog commenting.
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No worries Riya! Thanks for reading 🙂
Thank you for sharing a blog where we get to learn about how and why blog commenting is important for SEO.
No worries – Hope it helps.
Its Great information you have shared. Really great job..!
Thank you!
Hey Matthew, this is a great post! I’ve been using this for myself and for clients for years.The real benefit like you mentioned is networking and building relationships in your industry, some of my best friendships and business collaborations started with a simple blog comment.Thanks again, I’m pulling some quotes from this and adding them to a post, I’ll drop ya a line when I publish it 🙂
Glad to hear that – Thank you, Troy.
I know a lot of things about SEO from you.Thanks 🙂
Thank you Sam!
Hello Matthew!It is a really interesting post and it helps me a lot! Feedly is useful for SEO, but we need to pay for some features..I hope that there are more website lists we can use other than Feedly!
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Glad to hear that, Lisa. Wish you good luck!
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No problem – Always happy to help!
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Thank you Jeffery & good luck!
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Thanks Manuel! Hope you’ll successfully apply what you’ve learned!
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No worries. I’m glad to share my experience with my readers!
Hi Matt, Really great job on content! do you think that creating backlinks from commenting is still relevant to add SEO value to my site ? is it necessary to build backlinks on relevant sites pr niche one?
Yep you can add a lot of value by using blog commenting as part of your backlinking strategy. You should also try some of these- https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/
you have really provided the good content on link building through commenting backlinks.I used to think that this is a waste of time but you really told in detail that this is too beneficial for us thanks to sharing such a blog post.
No problem – you should also try some of these strategies – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/
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Thanks Ellie! Great to hear about it in action!
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Hi Matt,This is amazing article about blog commenting.It works, I have been doing this for an year. made a list of relevant blogs to comment, I read articles and drop my genuine thoughts by addressing the author name.People started noticing me and have been inviting me to guest post on their sites. In fact, I have made friends who lift me up when it is needed.Blog commenting is so simple and my favorite strategy. Beginners must start doing this 🙂 Have a great day, Matt.
Thanks Mudassir – glad to hear of the success this technique is bringing you!
Funny enough, I usually don’t remember that commenting on blogs actually increase my Google profile, I usually comment on a blog when I’m totally taken with it!These days people have made blog commenting a total put off- because everyone just want to spam the other and get link by Force and it’s just not fair.I think blog commenting should be a way to build relationship that last.At least, we should actually mean it when we comment on blogs.
Yes I agreee. You need to leave valuable comments that help others, not just a ‘great post – ‘
It’s really a nice post about ‘Blog Commenting. Noone nowadays gives much importance to blog commenting, thinking of that, Tire 2 backlinks have a very low use. I would recommend this to all those bloggers out there.Back in 2012, when I was a complete newbie to this blogosphere, I had no idea about the link building. I searched for SEO and discovered blog commenting as the most convenient method for me and fortunately, it worked for me. After 1 year of that blog, I was able to achieve 30k+ unique visitors in a month. That was an Android-related blog. Unfortunately, I could not maintain that blog due to my brain sucking daywork.That’s a great tip to use Feedly. I think I must try this.Thank You!
Thanks Biswajit. Hope you find this tactic useful.
Though you have written an excellent article, you never explained blog comments work in 2020 or not.
Well yes… the title alone tells you it’s still relevant
*smiles and nods*
*tips hat*
It always helps to comment without a link first, especially if you did not get that first comment sport. Help build trust for the next comments. As a webmaster, I always remember users who have contributed value to discussions in the past.
Great tip!
Another tip if you can’t think of anything to write in your comments is to look through the previous comments, and if you can, answer other people’s questions.
Good point Brock
Great post Matt! Ever since Neil Patel released his study on the effects of blog commenting, I’ve been looking for ways to include them in my backlink profile. Loved the thought of leaving valuable 300-word responses.Best blogs I’ve found to comment on are industry experts, especially those in my own country (Singapore). This way, I get to also build great connections where opportunities and ideas could be shared on how to optimise better for the local market.Thanks again for sharing!
Hey Muhammad, thanks for sharing your thoughts and tips. Hope you can use blog commenting successfully.
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Good luck with it!
Hi Matt,I really wish that people responsible for SEO in Poland will read this article. I have few blogs with a lot of traffic and I get there a lot of comments. But 95% of them are spam. It’s really rarely for me to read and accept a comment that gives some knowledge and is not just an attempt to get a free backlink.Now I can see that SEO specialists from UK work completely differently than in my country. We have to learn from you.
Haha, send em my way 🙂
II guess, this case “spamming” happening not only in Poland 😉 lol.Matthew, thank you for sharing useful thoughts. It helped me to better understand, how to promote myself (let`s be honest) by helping others in the comment section 🙂
Hi Matt,you’re right about blog commenting being the newbie-friendly way to build backlinks. I remember that’s how I started.I made a list of 10 or so mid tier influencers from my niche and I left 5 comments per day on their blogs.My official excuse was that I was practicing my writing (I’m not a native speaker)But behind that reasoning or shall I say in the heart of my heart:)(that was a Hamlet reference);I was hoping it would lead me to making connection with those bloggers. And i was right.After just 2 months I got an invite to guest post on a DA 40 blog, and then couple of more followed; and then I landed a few interviews…Getting links through leaving comments is an indirect process but it works. It works because you’re adding value and because it’s so easy to stand out from one liner’s.I’ll end this rambling comment right here:)
Thanks for sharing your experience Nikola – glad to hear this method worked well for you 🙂