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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?
What Are High PR Backlinks?
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.
Are High PR Links From Comments Still Effective?
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!
Can You Rank A Page With High PR Backlinks From Comments?
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.
Keyword #1 Competition
Keyword #2 Competition
Experiment Details
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-
- Less than 50 outbound links
- A minimum page rank of 1
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.
21st Feb – Experiment Results So Far
I started building the links on the 7th Of February and so far 200 of the 400 planned links have been built.
21st Feb Keyword #1 Rankings (Started at #62)
21st Feb Keyword #2 Rankings (Started at #69)
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.
12th March – Ranking Update
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-
12th March Keyword #1 Rankings (Started at #62)
12th March Keyword #2 Rankings (Started at #69)
Summary
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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What Are Your Thoughts?
2,164 Responses
thanks for giving this infomation
No worries Nithya 🙂
i want to know that should we build link to our domain’page or toour post please tell
Whichever pages are most valuable to you. But remember the link needs to be relevant
thanx for such a useful information
Happy to help Albert
Hey Sir, Thanks for the informative article which you have written in a blog manner and it is very helpful for link builders.I have bookmark it on my browser to read it again for betterment results .It will help me in my profession for improvement in our day to day life for each and everyone
Thanks for the bookmark!
Maybe links aren`t so crucial after june update? Good post Matt.
I think links will always be an important ranking factor
Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece of information Matthew. It helped me a lot..Keep Sharing Keep Growing…
Thanks Manish – I certainly intend to 🙂
From my experience in the last month. I hadn’t done any back link work for the past two years and really had no PR. I am a newbie to website design and really didn’t think that back linking was a factor. So I read up and started with blogs in my industry. I have only started with blogs for the moment. I have seen a huge jump in PR and now spend every morning just trying to secure two or three back links. Thank you for your post you gave me more idea’s.
No problem, you should use some of these strategies too – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/
thanks for the great informative article
No worries!
interesting article with nice information to be noted!! I will try to implement in my blog as well
Good luck
Nice Work and Keep it up 🙂 🙂
Cheers Michael, will do.
nice information goood idia
Cheers!
Very cool article, it’s very interesting to see if the commenting on blogs works, I trying it for my site that deals with Bitcoin and ways to earn money. Wish me luck
Good luck Marcel
very useful info keep it up brilliant effort
Will do Muhammad
Very Helpful article. useful information.
Glad to hear it Rubul.
No problem Gavin, come back again soon.
Hi Matt, I have an online store and would like to use this blog comments backlinks, thank you for sharing, hope it works.
Thanks 🙂 Make sure you combine it with some other link building strategies too – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/
Of course, this has helped us keep up with the pace in the industry. Thank you again for the wonderful insights.
Interesting stuff, thanks for the information!
No worries Adam, best of luck.
Thank you so much for sharing such information.
Happy to help
Thanks for sharing this information. It really helped me allot. Please keep posting this kind of content.
I’ve got plenty more for ya 🙂
Very informative and useful.
Cheers Naresh! Glad you think so.
You are surely dishing out great tips. Thanks for writing this. I have been using the same strategy to boost my website’s Search Engine Optimization and I should say It’s so far working well.
Glad to hear this strategy is working well for you Michael 🙂
Very nice article bro keep it up.
Thanks, will do.
Thanks that Really help a lot.
Glad to hear it Aamir
this is very helpful for me,Are there other articles about the same topic?
Plenty of articles about link building on my blog https://searchlogistics.com/seo/
Something worth reading. Keep it up Matthew
Cheers Jazib I certainly will.
So nice to read this article, it is the best comment backlink guide ever.I have never seen before the article in deep knowledge like this article.I have implemented this in my blogging life and have started to gain good results.Thanks for sharing this article with us!
Awesome news Prashant! Hope it continues.
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Thanks very much!
nice article I just gonna check whether is work thanks
Thanks Kamlesh
Hi,Thanks for sharing such an amazing blog. Hope you will share such type of blog in future.
There’s plenty more where this came from Ravi.
Hi Sir, please help me how I can increase visitor on my website.I am waiting for your reponse.Thanks and regards,khan
Sure no problem! Here you go – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/
Helpful article and really nicely explained so thanks a lot.
You’re welcome Richa
Really useful content. Have been trying this out for sometime now
Thanks very much, how are you getting on?
Glad to hear it
its very use full for me
Thank you so much for sharing this article with us :)You are great Matthew 🙂
Thanks David! My pleasure 🙂
You are doing a great job and its very helpful.
Cheers buddy
nice article
Thanks 🙂
Happy to help. Start here – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/
No problem, here you go – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/
Help me to get more backlinks
Really Nice sites… Thanks for guiding us to do blog commenting on high Pr sites. Really it’s very beneficial for me…
No problem Mitchell, hope the tutorial helped.
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Cheers
Blog commenting is one of the best ways to gain organic traffic from high-authority sites. It is an off-page SEO strategy that helps you to make your website rank higher in all the search engine platforms. Most of the website provide do follow backlink which is another added advantage.
Thanks for the rundown Shanaya
Nice
Thanks a lot.
I have tried this way and help my site rank higher. Thank You for your help and nice to meet You RegardZaky
Thanks Zaky – glad I could help 🙂
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Thanks for taking your time to share your experience from a typical manual perspective to an automated approach.I’m sure apart from me many individuals who read this content are already applying the approach to practice
Hope it works well for you.
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