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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
Hello MatthewThank you for these back links because they have been extremely useful in my link building.
No problem Sharma
A very helpful article.
hope you put what you learnt to good use
very good guidence thank you for sharing with usthank you
No problem Zain, I hope you picked up lots of hints and tips
Very informative blog. I am going to bookmark and follow suggested measures in my blog. Thanks & good luck
Thanks for the bookmark 🙂
Although I do know about some of them but the ones i didn’t know about I really want to thank you for sharing those with us.
Now you know you can get implimenting
Hi Matt,This is a really useful read! It lead me onto your article about Scrapebox too, great introduction to your website.
Hi Tom, glad you liked it
Thanks for your information. I always follow your website for SEO. Thank you so much matthewwoodward
Keep following Vishnu, great to hear from you
It’s a good article.I also create a new blog about check it.
Thanks Ahmed
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Cheers Azam
Thank For Sharing This Information. This information is very helpful for me.
You are welcome, it’s what you do with that information that counts
Great research and tips! Thanks for sharing, regards Alastair Majury
No problem Alastair
thanks for sharing this amazing peace of work. this article is really informative. keep it up
Will do Prateek thanks for visiting
wonderful blog post helping for backlinks
Glad you think so
Thank You very much for this article , I think comments still helps ranking ..It’s good practice as this is better way of communicating between Blogger and reader so keep commenting
Thanks for your comment 😉
articles from you sanget useful for me, and hopefully your success continues.thanks.Amazing informationthanks.
Cheers Hendri I hope they have helped you out somewhat
Nice bog!! I think i will apply all these techniques to my website.
You would be crazy not too 🙂
Wow, Awesome post for me. I am a newcomer to this site.I am very worried for my new blog.
Glad you liked the post
nice ….
Cheers
Great Article and lots of information!!
Cheers Chetan!
tnx
No probs
Thanks, for your valuable tips.I would like to say a lot of thanks for these knowledge sharing tips.
Well it’s what you do with the tips that count
It was a good research Matthew. I hope I also get the same uplifting after building backlink.
Thanks Pallavi
wow, nice experiment. I am glad that this way of creating back link still works. thanks for sharing.
No problem Pranish
Thank you for the research. I usually like to build links to my homepage using high PR comments.
No problem
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No problem, I am glad you enjoyed it
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Glad you found what you were looking for
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Thanks David
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No problem, glad you learnt some new tips
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Thanks Sneha, the detail is key
Thanks a Lot for such a nice information
No problem, now it is down to how you use that information
Amazing stuff. especially about no-follow links. Thanks for sharing.
No worries Maria
Thank you for the article, and i wil try it. Hoping to improve my blog’s rank
No problem and I hope you learnt some useful tips
I read alot your article in this niche. Very interesting article and most of them in page one. Thanks again
Yep, straight to the point
Thanks a lot for sharing nice article.Keep posting interesting articles.
Thank you Shafiq, I hope you enjoyed it
Awesome experiment, I wanted to see if it was really worth me trying to build back links from blog comments and it seems it certainly it.
No problem Oliver
Nice and good posting on blog commenting. But my question is there any to find out the blog commenting sites on our related topics?
Just search your niche + blog in Google
Mathew I will immediately start applying your technique in my website. Thanks and keep sharing interesting articles.
No problem Faisal
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No worrys Mahmud!
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Nice article. Thanks
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Your blog is very rich and you are super sharing.
No problem 🙂
Great article. Like yourself I still feel that link-building is a valuable resource to boost any pages authority and presence across the net. Quite a lot of high authority sites now implement different ways of adding comments that remove the use of a backlink to a website. That’s rather sneaky. But for the most part, there’s plenty of sites that are wide open to explore and every comment helps out the site and the page that is being commented on. As long as that comment is helpful / informative / not just two or three words long.
Of course and its one of the fundamental pillars of link building
Does google see the difference between links in comments and links placed by the page itself? and does this have an effect on the ranking?
Yes for sure
Great post! I’m trying to build real quality links for my blog. Doing my best in the right way (white hat) to avoid Google punishment. Thanks again!
Good luck with your ventures!
That’s what I am trying to implement currently-hate manual jobs 🙂
Robots do it better