I wrote a lot about gaining backlinks by commenting on blogs, and I always warn people that if you use this technique for link building, you have to deleiver real value as otherwise you are nothing but a spammer.
So what – a few people might think, then I am a spammer as long as google does not notice I am fine with that.
My opinion on those: You are wasting other people’s time and most probably your own time, too.
Read here what Google has to say about comment spam:
Google on comment spam
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I always advise people that if they are going to leave comments on other blogs, to gain backlinks or traffic, then they should always try and leave something that adds to the blog post or at the very least offers something of value, even an opinion.
Going to a blog and leaviing a comment like “nice post”, “thanks for sharing”, etc, is spam in my eyes pure and simple.
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I agree that comment spam does lower the quality of the web in general, which is important to be mentioned. However, there are websites like this that use something like keyword luv to reward readers for relevant comments, which I feel actually contributes to the quality of the Internet because people in theory should be inspired to actually try harder to provide relevant contributions to the blog.
I would say that google is definitely aware of comment spam, but it is probably very difficult for them to come up with ways to distinguish it from other links.
I have heard that commenting on a site that is full of spam will render your link useless. Many of the automated spammers leave some kind of footprint. If Google hasn’t figured it out yet they soon will.
I think the first thing who checks if the comment is spam is the moderator of the site itself. Because they are the one’s who will approve those comments.
Hi Teena
You are right – usually blogs are moderated. The question here is more whether google will penalize your site if you are “successful” at blog spamming. Consider it an appeal for contributing value to the blogs you comment to
Mike
P.S.: Your comment is a good example for adding value because it highlights another point of view to the topic.
A lot of commenters could learn from your example!
I thought Google bots read only links but I admit that there can be some mechanism to find out how many comments are there in one comment or how many links are there of any 1 domain on the same page.
Spamming is not a great idea, and it’s always good to leave a constructive comment on a dofollow blog and go back in 1-2 days and we see a nice reply of that comment from the blog owner. Spamming doesn’t create that feeling to be honest
Google is pretty awesome at analyzing link patterns, so I could only assume they are good at identifying spammy links. It would be best to err on the side of caution. Regardless, its less work for blog owners if the spam is reduced.
I’d have to agree that plugins like CommentLuv and KeywordLuv actually improve the comments you receive. Since people know they are going to gain a quality backlink, they take the time to actually write something worth reading.
This is another SEO area where we can only *assume* but don’t really know how Google’s algorithm works.
Do you really *know* that G is analyzing a comment and then devalue a link because the comment is rather generic? Fact is, we don’t really know.
There is at least as much SEOs who tell you “a link is a link”…and the other 50% tell you it plays a role.
I need to say that “backlink quality” and “backlink strength” is a very interesting subject tho.
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