[Case Study] Do comment links work? Let's do Comment

[DJ.Bud]

AIM: To find out if comment links work or not.

What will I do?

I will post comments on 20 blogs (only) and see if there's ranking improvement due to the links I have made.

How?

Will scrape the best blogs in my niche and comment on them so that they are approved.

What I think will happen?

I have had no luck with comment links in the past but I will test them out this time to promote one my tools. Let's see what happens

If you want to follow my other case study on forum links.

Visit: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/c...urney-till-the-keywords-reach-page-1.1131255/

 

[SocialManager]

For a proper test, you should be using 4 different pages on 4 different domains. They should be aged and stable in rankings.

2 are used for a control with no links built, and 2 have links built.

Otherwise, there are too many variables for us to come to any conclusions.

You can't just attribute ranking improvements to comments. Correlation doesn't imply causation.

These are fun, but they shouldn't be used as anything more than motivation to do further deep testing.

 

[Postercamp]

Interesting to see how it goes. How long you expect it gonna show some result?

 

[DJ.Bud]

For a proper test, you should be using 4 different pages on 4 different domains. They should be aged and stable in rankings.

2 are used for a control with no links built, and 2 have links built.

Otherwise, there are too many variables for us to come to any conclusions.

You can't just attribute ranking improvements to comments. Correlation doesn't imply causation.

These are fun, but they shouldn't be used as anything more than motivation to do further deep testing.

True. For that a control group is needed.

I used to do that but SEO changes so freaking fast these days. That's why I am making orphan pages on my website to test it out.

It's not 100% scientific.

But it helps my site a lot, helps in brand building if not SEO. I have seen so many times that blogger picks up the tool I share with them on the comments and give me a few do follow links from their blog. Which is awesome! Those work (no testing needed lol)

Interesting to see how it goes. How long you expect it gonna show some result?

I don't expect anything from comments. They have never worked for me

 

[SocialManager]

But it helps my site a lot, helps in brand building if not SEO. I have seen so many times that blogger picks up the tool I share with them on the comments and give me a few do follow links from their blog. Which is awesome! Those work (no testing needed lol)

Are you looking for auto-approve posts or you will try to do high quality and get manually approved? If auto-approve, just make sure to look for pages with lowest outbound links. Don't want your link between porn and casino spam. Is your plan to just make 20 comments and then check them in a few days? Or you will keep posting until 20 live comments? Wasn't too sure from your original post. Will you do a mix of do-follow and no-follow?

 

[DJ.Bud]

Are you looking for auto-approve posts or you will try to do high quality and get manually approved? If auto-approve, just make sure to look for pages with lowest outbound links. Don't want your link between porn and casino spam. Is your plan to just make 20 comments and then check them in a few days? Or you will keep posting until 20 live comments? Wasn't too sure from your original post. Will you do a mix of do-follow and no-follow?

Blog comments are no follow I guess?

I will post comments on news blogs where they cover my niche topics. Those will make some good nofollow links

 

[SocialManager]

Blog comments are no follow I guess?

Some blogs have do-follow comment links. Less common of course, but they are definitely available.

 

[soum500]

in the past comments and link forums worked for ranking. but nowadays I don't think it works as it used to, I already tried this year with weak competition keywords, no movement in the serp. I use it for third-party links2, only.

 

[DJ.Bud]

Some blogs have do-follow comment links. Less common of course, but they are definitely available.

If they are do follow. I am sure they are spammed af.

I haven't seen any ******** blog comments in my niche though. Let's see what I scrape

 

[nirose]

I honestly think blog commenting would only work on edu/gov sites. if you find some at all.

The thing about scraping is everyone does it and eventually gets juice knocked out

 

[Ozzyzig]

Oh hell yeah! Can't wait to see the results from this one @WebMinati

 

[InfinityPeace]

The issues with comments are 1) the spam factor/high OBL, 2) typically no-follow, 3) if your site is seen by Google as relying too much on comments compared to the competition, it may scream unnatural footprint.

You should work around these issues by 1) focusing on blog sections where comments close and the comments are subject to approval (i.e., the moderator function is your friend).2) Pre-check the comments section to ensure the links are do-follow, or else use the no-follow links for direct click-thru or referral traffic, and link diversity. 3) Do enough competition research to know how much commenting you can get away with and still have a natural looking backlink profile.

 

[pauliakas]

hmm interesting will follow

 

[Geasy]

Following this one too.

I've commented in a thread before asking the same question that blog comments worked for me. They were done manually by myself and not in spam sites and most of them were no-follow tbh. This was back in 2015 though.

 

[dogilim]

It's working very well for me.

 

[esmeralda]

I think sometimes blog comments works, but with manual approval and same niche blogs or similar niches.
But is difficult find a good linkbuilder.

 

[Univa]

Comment Links are like something that I do when the blog is new to have a name out but if you are someone who doesnt loves to see shitload of backlinks from a single domain then you should skip these.

 

[Seven4]

I like this journey. Interesting. Will be following along.

 

[Differrus]

Any update?

 

[itsmytime]

I started doing blog comments for my new blog yesterday. It will be interesting to see how this goes. I might also share my results here.