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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
Nice InformationThnk you soo much
Happy to help.
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Hi Matthew,Thank you for sharing amazing information
You’re welcome Dinesh
Amazing Article! Your article really helped in understanding that still today Blog Commenting on High PR sites is working. I really appreciate your effort in experimenting… and showing us the results.
Happy to help Ayushi
That’s what I am looking for. I am still in dilemma to create comment backlinks or not. What’s your thought about it? anyone? Do I have to create backlinks like this way or let it be?
Try it and see what happens – there’s plenty of ways you can build links – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/
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Great news Xavier – good luck
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Hey Matthewthanks for taking the efforts to first, do the experiment and second, share it with us. Really appreciate it!
No problem – hope it helped 🙂
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Hope you found it useful.
I love this part, “High PR blog comments do carry some weight and still provide traction with Google”. I have never used blog comment backlink before. But now I’m going to try this. Thank you Matt.
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Will do Faisal.
Thank You. I search a lot for this info. Backlinks through commenting is a bit old school but still, like you sad “support and diversify your existing link building campaigns.”
Yes very true Linas
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This was exactly what I was looking for. I have been wondering if there is any data to actually back up manual link building with comments and this cleared it up for me. Thanks for the helpful information.
No problem Kiril – you know you can trust data!
Great article
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I hope so
Happy to help Daniel
This was a really helpful article.I am a digital marketing enthusiast. Someone suggested me to learn about blog commenting. So, I started reading about it that whether it works or not. I am surely going to try the methodology used by you. I will be reading your other articles too. Hope to learn more from them.
Let me know how you get on Jainish – there’s plenty more for you to read on the blog 🙂
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Glad I could help – good luck
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Thanks Shagor
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No worries – hope it proves useful.
Thanks for sharing some good blogging sites that I can comment. Can you help me in finding more links for seo backlinks for my website.
Yes of course, here you go – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/
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I have a bunch of link building articles here – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/
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Thanks Vivek – you’ll probably find these helpful too if you are looking for link building tips…https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/strategies/https://searchlogistics.com/seo/link-building/backlink-analysis/
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Thanks Praveen – hope this was helpful.
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A combination of things – build a strong site foundation, create awesome content then build strong backlinks. This might help – https://searchlogistics.com/seo/case-studies/14x-search-traffic/
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Glad to hear it Soham.
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Good to know Satish