How Blog Commenting Got Me 1200 Backlinks in 5 Days

Everyone knows just how important blog commenting can be in getting you backlinks, establishing your name in your blogging community and hopefully getting the number 1 spot in SERP. But have you actually counted how many backlinks you can get from blog commenting alone?

If you’ve read my recent post ‘The Easiest Way To Get Backlinks Starts Here‘ I described some of these obvious benefits to blog commenting but I also included an important revelation:

Well someone I know who does blog commenting at blogs with ‘Top Commentator’s List for just 2 months gets him over 10,000 inlinks??? How? It’s simple ….the Top Commentator links are sitewide (because it’s in the sidebar) and it counts every single page as an inlink. So if you make top commentator on a site with 300 pages, it counts as 300 inlinks.

While I don’t disagree with how Blog Commenting can help you amass a substantial amount of backlinks, how successful you are at it is also determined by what comment strategy you used or how addicted diligent you are in making this effort a routine work before anything else, just to name a couple. I decided to start a little experiment to find out how many backlinks I can obtain for Work From Home Business Blog over 5 days of blog commenting.

Blog Comment Strategy I used:

Special Focus For this Experiment:

* Comment on blogs which have do-follow and Top Commentator List. The easiest way to find the DoFollow blogs is through the use of a search engine called DoFollo.com. Here you can search for DoFollow blogs in your niche by using relevant keywords. For this experiment I used my do-dollow blogs list in ‘The Easiest Way To Get Backlinks Starts Here‘ to find my blogs to comment.

* Focus on PR3 blogs. This is my short term focus as I reckon over 5 days it’s easier to get more backlinks from PR3 blogs than say PR4-PR6. I will change my focus once my experiment ends.

* Contribute only quality comments. If you think you don’t have anything good to add to the conversation, DON’T Comment. Move on to another blog.

* DON’T spam!

* Start with 5 PR3 Blogs on the first day and post comments until you can find yourself in the Top Commentators List (you may have to manual count for blogs which moderate comments).

* On subsequent days go to these 5 blogs and add more comments to maintain or increase your lead over other bloggers. Always aim for the No. 1 spot in the Top Commentators List. If this is not possible, be in this list at least. Comment on 1-2 new blogs and repeat comment strategy.

At all Times:

* When you received a comment give a comment back by visiting the blog. To let everyone know you are dead serious about this, display an icon that says U Comment-I Comment Back

* Reward your Top Commentators each month so as to give recognition as well as attract more people to comment on your blog. Write a Readers Appreciation post monthly as a show of appreciation.

After 5 days of blog commenting using this strategy you will find that you are Top Commentator for about 10-15 blogs.

Here are my Results:
B. Score Summary

Date of Report: Oct 17, 2008 (full report)
B. Score Summary
Section www.peterleehc.com/blog
Website Grade 93
Google Page Rank 3
Google Indexed Pages 315
Traffic Rank 244,210
Blog Rank 155,210
Inbound Links 1,566
del.icio.us Bookmarks 0

Date of Report: Oct 22, 2008 (full report)
Section www.peterleehc.com/blog
Website Grade 94
Google Page Rank 3
Google Indexed Pages 324
Traffic Rank 231,650
Blog Rank 112,163
Inbound Links 2,825
del.icio.us Bookmarks 0

Results Analysis:Blog Comment Experiment from Oct 17 - Oct 22

My total backlinks (Inbound Links) increased by 1259 and in fact my Traffic Rank, Google Indexed Pages and Blog Rank have also improved too. It is worth mentioning also that during this experiment, no other linking methods were used e.g. social bookmarking, article marketing, directory submission.

This simple experiment goes to show how effective blog commenting can be in generating you lots of backlinks provided you become Top Commentator at high quality blogs and follow a good comment strategy. My experiment is…well an experiment after all. If you have found other more successful ways to go about getting better results, I really like to hear them. Feel free to tell us your blog commenting ways in getting your backlinks.

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