Many people (including myself) say leaving comments on blogs is good for your site’s SEO. However, there are also many people who disagree for one simple reason. Most blogs use the nofollow tag.
The Good
Well for starters, visitors to the page may click on your link. Although this is not search engine optimization, it can lead to it. They may click on your link, like your site, and write a post on their blog that includes a link to your site. Indirect SEO, but still useful.
Comments can also make you seem like an expert in your field, which, just like above, can lead to visits to your site and possibly lead to more links.
The Bad
Most blogs use the “nofollow” attribute in their anchor tags. Nofollow tells the search engines “Hey, don’t give them any of my pagerank juice.”
Although commenting can add backlinks, these backlinks may or may not affect your page’s search ranking. A lot of people think that this makes commenting worthless and not useful for your page’s SEO.
Conclusion
I still think commenting on other blogs is very useful. By leaving comments you are at least indirectly helping your page’s SEO.
If you appear to be an expert in a particular field then people will click on your link, become subscribers, and if they really like your blog, they may link over to it from their blog. This isn’t direct SEO, but it can help out your rankings in the long run.
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
February 13th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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