Commenting on Other’s Post Won’t Increase Your Blog Ranking

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Suresh Khanal

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Commenting on other’s blog certainly has its advantage on your promotion and recognition but if you expect your blog will rank higher, I doubt.
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6a00c225279bd6604a011015e4786e860b-320pi[1]Search engines are more smart to identify which links on a post are prominent. Your common sense can easily identify the important links that you should follow on a post and other links that are merely there for advertising. Search engines too regard the links on signature that you post below your comment with least weight. Please, correct me if I am wrong regarding the link value as listed below.
Highest weight links – The links that author uses inside posts. These links are surrounded with text and are relevant to the context.
Medium weight links – The links inside comment text that comment author posted. These links too are surrounded by text and are relevant to the comment text.

Least weight links – The links which are appended after the comment text.

Thus it is total worthless to comment for the sake of ranking.

Then, should I stop commenting?

No, not at all. I did not mean that. I just tried to make you aware that links on comments are not worth for the ranking of your blog or site. But this is no doubt a great way of building relationship and improve your web presence. You’ll get lots of likeminded friends and blogs on your niche.
Don’t agree with my belief? You are welcome to thrash me down on comments below. Welcome!
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2 Responses to Commenting on Other’s Post Won’t Increase Your Blog Ranking

  1. iWoodpecker@web traffic
    Twitter:
    says:
    March 6, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    You’re not 100% right.

    Google­bot sees your post pages as a html code. Any links in dofol­low com­ments equal post links, because it is still the same html page. But.. when it comes to nofol­low com­ments, then Google­bot sim­ply doesn’t count them, though there are other search engines.. like Yahoo, which don’t mind the nofol­low attribute in links.

    Noticed, that I have men­tioned that “it is still the html page” ? Some­times, on some blog plat­forms all the com­ments are redi­rected to other pages, that go along with the posts. In this case, com­ments is not a part of the post. And I find those blog plat­forms use­less to com­ment on them… unless the blog itself is wor­thy and full of traf­fic. There is a lot of aspects to men­tion, actually…

    Well.. you can look for more details in the post I’m show­ing here using CommentLuv.

    PS. In my pre­vi­ous com­ment, which was made sev­eral min­utes ago, I have told you that you have a lot of mis­takes in texts.. Well, this post looks bet­ter from the stand­point of gram­mar.
    iWoodpecker@web traffic´s last blog ..Blog Com­ment­ing: Is It That Impor­tant? [My Spammed Com­ment] My ComLuv Profile

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    • shkhanal
      Twitter:
      says:
      March 6, 2010 at 3:22 pm

      I respect your dis­agree­ment but still I could not con­vince myself that Google will regard links on post and links on com­ments with equal value. I do not believe that Google will just count the num­bers with­out regard­ing many other parameters.

      It is almost use­less when the com­ments are in other page. More­over, recently I have moved to Word­Press blog after I learn that the com­ments served with JavaScript are worth­less for link love.

      I am not talk­ing if it would con­tribute to rank­ing — binary ‘Yes’ / ‘No’ but I’m bet­ter con­cerned with ‘is com­ment­ing use­ful tech­nique to attempt rank­ing?’ We might find many other alter­na­tives with less effort and more effec­tive for rank­ing. I under­stand the impor­tance of com­ment in build­ing com­mu­nity and reputation.

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