A few years ago high PR backlinks from manual blog commenting exploded and became one of the most popular ways to build high PR links quickly and effectively.
Way back then they were very powerful especially if you leveraged the strength of high PR comment links.
It was incredibly easy to rank pages with nothing but blog comments but then tools like Scrapebox came along and ruined the party for everyone as every man and his dog was blasting hundreds of thousands of comments out per day and they become less effective.
UPDATE: You can get high PR backlinks from LinksThatRank or any one of these link building services.
What Will I Learn?
High PR backlinks are when you get a link to your website from a website that has a high level of authority or page rank. They are considered to be the most powerful type of backlink you can get.
I use high PR links from manual blog commenting as part of my overall link building process but it is difficult to judge if it is still effective as it once was when you are building lots of different links over a number of months.
There is only one way to find out (you know where this is going right?) so I decided to setup my own test and share the results with you!
In this experiment I selected a keyword focused inner page of a website that is already ranking well in the SERPS for its main terms. The inner page I chose had no previous link building work done on it all and was perfect for the purposes of this experiment.
The page mentioned above was already optimised for the 2 keywords. Keyword 1 naturally ranked at position 62 and keyword 2 ranked at position 69 at the start of the experiment.
Every week for 4 weeks I built 100 new high PR backlinks with comments and ensured every target page had-
I did not spread out the link building each week and just built all 100 of them in one go every Tuesday morning.
Pretty simple stuff and a few years ago that would have been more than enough to rank for some pretty decent terms.
I started building the links on the 7th Of February and so far 200 of the 400 planned links have been built.
So 200 links seems to have a positive uplift so far and I’m sure Google are still playing catch up with finding all the juicy new links. Both keywords have jumped up at least 10 positions or so.
Last week I built the final set of the links to the page which has now had at least 400 high PR backlinks from comments built to it over the past 4 weeks. Rankings below-
Both keywords have shown fairly decent increases in rank across the past 4 weeks. Keyword #1 has jumped up 23 places so far and keyword #2 has jumped up 25 places although both seem to be jumping between the 40’s and 50’s at the moment.
Google will still be playing catch up with all of the links that have been built so I will update the page again in a couple of weeks with the results of that.
Clearly high PR blog comments do carry some weight and still provide traction with Google although I wouldn’t like to completely rely on them to get me to the number 1 position. You should definitely be using them to support and diversify your existing link building campaigns.
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nice information . I have been using your Rank Cracker software for many months .thanks for sharing this information
Glad it has helped you out 🙂
Rank Cracker is awesome although it helps to comment and link to a web.20 blog and pass lik juice to your primary
Thanks for this Matthew Woodward, I have been using your Rank Cracker software for many months and I can honestly say I have overtaken many of my competitors by copying their backlinks into my website.Ahmed Thanks
Hey Ahmed, glad you are putting the software to good use and having great results, keep up the hard work 🙂
Thanks, that is great information for me 🙂
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Great post!Learned a lot! Thanks for sharing
wow, Nice SEO experiment. thanks for the information 🙂
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Thank for sharing nice information.
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I strongly agree with you, Matt. It’s better to take the Domain Authority and Trust Flow into consideration. Both these factors provide more value to determine the authority of a website.
Very concrete and productive list of links. Thank you very much 🙂
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I didn’t say anything about that
So you tell me that building links is not effective anymore ?
hey dude nice read by the way ! i just wanna ask if the PR of a website is high but the PR of the page not, does the backlink still worth or not ?
PR is an irrelevant metric that you should ignore in 2015
i am Also trying to rank my site through blog comments , any one can help me ?
What help do you need?
I keep reading so-called SEO ‘experts’ saying building back links by commenting on blogs doesn’t work in 2015. Well…it does for me 🙂 As long as you don’t spam, and do it gradually, Google still seems to have no problem with it. Of course, like you said though, it has to be part of an overall strategy, not all of it.
Very true, be spread naturally 🙂 (ish haha)
I read alot your article in this niche. Very interesting article and most of them in page one. Thanks again
Thanks Jasa 🙂
I am very new in this method… Is it really good method of getting ranking through only by blog commenting..
I wouldnlt 100% rely on it but it should be part of your strategy
Thanks for sharing this article. Keep Sharing 🙂
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Very excellent article, thank you for this valuable information
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Hello Matthew Woodward, I just find out your blog post from marketever.com Al Amin Kabir recommend your blog post. I have just read out your post. Really this post is really helpful to build link though blog commenting. Either I’m a professional blogger or nor, just like and grab the opportunity what you are created here.I start blogging on fashion. Need to build back-link that’s why I was looking for such a information what are you created here. Many many thanks bro.Best RegardsAnwer Ashif
No problem Anwer, glad to help 🙂
what i feel personally is yes !!, i think it is only One of the Parameter of Search Engine Ranking. Thank you Matthew Woodward foe the Awesome Article
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thanks for sharing this information
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That’s very helpful thanks for me nd thanks for sharing tips
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Interesting Experiment.Thanks for sharing.
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Hi everyone, need one opinion about backlinks. I am start to using link-assistant and scan of backlink say, backlinks from low PR pages (whatever main domain have high PR) don’t have any value for page they linking. What is your opinion?Thank youBest regards
If the domain has authority you are good to go!
its helpful Matt. good job
No worrys 🙂
Umm, were these manual or with scrapebox? Can I get a general idea on how you did it please?
‘How’ the comments are placed really doesn’t matter
This is an awesome guide. Hope it will help all people around the world.
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if you do high pr blog comments or back links that good for your website. but you it depended on you website seo.
Very interesting , and i know what is follow links from the comments.
Very interesting stuff, especially what you said about nofollow links in the comments.
Hope it helps!
Hi,Use both and mix things up
Hi Matt, I have made a lot of search and still dont find the anwer.Simple question blog post vs high pr.Blog post must be pr na cz it is new right? but in other side we can write a relevance topic.So how do you think? blog post vs high pr? I am waiting ur answer. Thanks 🙂
Great info as always man! I’m gonna try this, cuase currently i’m kinda of stuck with SeNuke.
Matt you a true hero in this Internet Marketing World. I am a big fan of yours. I just follow your blog blindly because I know your secrets really word awesome.
Thanks Vick glad to be of service 🙂
Really nice tip i’ll must implement on my blog.
Let us know how it goes!
Amazing information thanks you did good job.
Hey Matt this is just what I was looking for.I always build my sites with high PR contextual links and a good tier 1 foundation.I have found a niche where the number 1 site is using nothing but spammy high PR blog comments, that are completely irrelevant to his money site topic.I wasn’t planning on hitting this niche but I have dug up every single one of his backlinks and was planning to replicate it to a tee, and hopefully achieve similar results.Sites been around for a year with a 70% exact anchor ratio which I am surprised has not been hit. I was planning on actually making my anchors at healthy levels though.Was just wondering:1. Do you think this would work effectively?2. Is there any reason to suggest that a 70% anchor ratio is a good idea to mimic in this scenario? As hes been around for a year. Defies logic but seems to be working.3. Would pointing my good PBNs at this, should the spammy blog comments not be enough be a bad idea? Aka would this orgy of spammy blog comment infested niche site somehow leak shit to my PBNs by being associated with them?Thanks mate
Hi,That is actually my favourite strategy – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/backlink-analysis/BUT I would expect that site to get penalised at some point so would build out the links with a lower exact match ratioI wouldn’t worry about point 3
Hey Matthew will this still work in 2014
As part of a wider SEO strategy
This is really true when using comment to backlink. Google will change your ranking when you comment more on high PR sites
You can’t just rely on comments anymore though
Hey Matthew,I guess its true that if we comment on high PR blogs, we can get a rank. 😉
It’s a nice tactic as part of a broader strategy 🙂
Wow I think these are great tips.. I will definitely be using this method.. Thanks
No worrys 🙂
Yeah thats how its been for a long time
Very interesting in my opinion, that means that you have seen clear improved SERP results with nofollow links just because they were on high PR. Cheers!
Hi Matt, did you make sure they were dofollow or was it a mix (which to me is 99 nofollow to 1 dofollow)
can some one provide me high pr wiki sites.
Use Scrapebox to scrape thousands of them
Ya Bro
I’m looking for pages with high PR, but always I found only web sites with high PR, and their pages pr is 0, it’s ok if I comment on these pages?
Yes thats fine but try and find some pages with PR as well.In scrapebox once you find a good site, do a site:thedomain.com scrape then do a bulk PR check on all the results.
Hello, sir/ Madam very good article thanks for sharing keep up the good work…
Thanks =D
Thanks man I am such a big fan of your blog now
I see you wrote this post a few months ago I am just wandering if blog commenting still works this days Matt.
Hi,Yes its still a good approach but make sure you diversify your link sources 🙂
Hey AnesI am new here and i want to try this for my website lets see the response, i don’t have proper knowledge of SEO, plz help but lets start thisthanks
Thanks for sharing such a nice tips. I will try to get backlinks from High PR websites using comments.
No worrys 🙂
What a great content! I found your blog on google and loved reading it greatly. It is a great post indeed. Much obliged to you and good fortunes.
Interesting experiment, Matt. Have you tried speeding up the indexing of comments, or did you leave them to be discovered and cached naturally?
How would you index it more quickly?
Nicola BoschettiInteresting experiment, Matt. Have you tried speeding up the indexing of comments, or did you leave
I think you never said which software you've used for this experiment. “High PR Blogs” – is that PR of a homepage or page with the comment? What's the PR range? Can you please give more details? Or maybe PM them to me, if that's not classified 🙂
Please clarify yourself further, this is a very interesting topic. Thank you very much
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