Yicrosoft Directory Link Building Strategy
The link building strategy we want to talk about today is blog commenting. Most blogs out there, including the Yicrosoft Directory, will allow you to comment on their blog posts, either with or without a NoFollow tag. It is highly recommended that you try and comment on at least 2-3 blog posts per day because that is great for reputation building, expertise and building quality inbound links.
There are a few blog comment etiquette rules to follow though. Don’t worry about the NoFollow tag all that much. Yes, it is nice to comment on a blog that does not have the NoFollow tag, but if it is a good post with a decent page rank, you know that it drives a lot of traffic and more people will see that comment than if you commented on a blog that no one went to (but did not have a NoFollow tag).
Do not put a link to your site in the signature of your blog comment, it will come off as spammy and your comment will most likely get deleted.
The same goes with putting a keyword phrase in the name field to get a better anchor text. You will be labeled as spam as well. Unless your name really is “Cool Widgets”, don’t put that as your name.
You do the math, if you comment on 3 blogs per day, in a month you will almost have 100 links to your site, with little to no effort! That equates to almost 1200 links per year. The NoFollow tag still counts as backlinks in Yahoo SiteExplorer and Ask doesn’t even pay attention to that tag. If you use Text Link Ads, it’s good to know that they look at Yahoo backlinks to determine the price of an ad from your site.
About reputation building, if you participate by commenting, you are helping others out or stirring conversation. It is the extension of forum participation, but without the exclusivity.
What better way to start off your day than to go around reading a few blogs and posting worthy comments (oh yeah and leaving a link back to your site). It is probably the easiest way to gain a link back to your site? To help semi-automate the comment form fields, you can read a previous post by the Yicrosoft Directory about semi-automating directory submissions, but will work just as well for blog posts.
