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Bloggers love comments – receiving them, that is. In fact, I would go as far as to say that most bloggers aim to get as many comments as they can possibly get. However, the opposite is not always the case. What I mean is that even if everyone wants to receive comments, not everyone likes taking the time to leave their comments in other people’s blogs.

What if I told you that you can actually use commenting to create links to your own blog or web site and, hopefully, increase your PR. This can be done by leaving your comments on other blogs and indicating your URL in the appropriate field. However, you have to note that this will not ALWAYS generate links to your blog. How so?

There are different ways by which blog owners manage comments. The Page Rank Guide summarizes them neatly.

1. Blogs that use comment moderation and “rel=nofollow”
2. Blogs that use no comment moderation and “rel=nofollow”
3. Blogs that use comment moderation and links follow
4. Blogs that use no comment moderation and links follow

The first two methods will not do much good for you in terms of links. This is because the “no follow” command means that even if you place your URL in your comment, the link will not point to your site. So before you go on a commenting frenzy, remember that the blog you should comment on has be a “do follow” one.

More so, make sure that you will not end up being a spam commenter. Make sure your comments make sense and are relevant to the topic of the post.

10 Comments to "Commenting: Does This Help Your PR?"

  • Norish Aida said: On 05/19/2008 at 1:33 am

    Good tips. I have many spam comments in my blog that made me close them all. And I love your blog design too, simple and nice.

  • Norhafidz said: On 05/19/2008 at 4:37 am

    True, I love comments flooded in my blog, and by setting it to doflollow, we encourage people to send their comments and the same time rewarding them with a backlink ;)

  • Jay Johnson said: On 05/20/2008 at 12:59 am

    Great Article! Now I’ll comment to help my PR. :) Thank You!

  • Gout Treatments said: On 05/23/2008 at 3:03 am

    I am new to dofollow,nofollow. I understand that no-follow means no backlink, do follow means you can get a backlink, but how do you tell if a site is do follow or not? BTW, nice blog, I found you from Cour’ts D-List

    Medic

  • Smart SEO Blog » Blog Archive » Do Follow Or No Follow? said: On 05/25/2008 at 6:41 am

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  • Data Entry Services said: On 07/09/2008 at 2:55 am

    I’ve been commenting since I found your blog. You have given good advice.

  • Civil Site Design said: On 10/12/2008 at 2:37 am

    Thank you for the information and help. I am studying your many informative blogs.

  • Your-Money-Online said: On 10/16/2008 at 8:31 am

    Although you will not get backlinks to your own site, commenting on blogs with nofollow tags will also help you to make friends with the bloggers and it can also drive some traffic to your web site.

  • joel said: On 10/16/2009 at 9:36 am

    Well written article. Thanks for clearly explaining the concept of link building through blog commenting. The link which you provided helped me a lot in understanding the actual concept.
    Thanks for sharing useful information on increasing page rank through link building tactics.

  • Pat Williams said: On 08/12/2010 at 5:22 pm

    Thanks for the explanation. I am new to blogging and was wondering why some comments would link back to my site and some wouldn’t.

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