For our on-going Internet Marketing efforts, I wanted to remind my readers that this is a Do-Follow comment blog, this means that the link to your websites in comments counts as a backlink with the search engines, is a part of your link building efforts and to help you to rank for your keywords. This is my way of saying thanks to all of my great commenters.
The reason I am writing this post is that I am noticing that some commenters are using their first names as the anchor of their website link, probably because the comment form says name, however this is where your keywords should go so that you can get the benefit of the backlink. I am pretty sure that you guys don't want to have your websites rank for your first names 
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If you are unsure about the meaning and importance of anchor text please refer to this post: The Important of Anchor Text in Link Building.
The short and quick of it is you need to have your keywords in the anchor of your website links whenever you are link building for search engine optimization.
When you comment on this blog and other do-follow blogs (that allow keywords) you should use your keywords as the anchors by putting them in the name spot:
Then when you submit the comment, your keywords will appear as the anchor text of your url and you have a nice backlink with your keywords to your site!
Make sure to subscribe to this blog to get updates for new posts where you can leave comments. I hope this helps you guys!
Hey JR, this really is a weird coincidence again as I published an article yesterday about a plugin called keywordLuv. I installed it on SEO Horror and what it does is that instead of putting your name in the name field you enter something similar to “Ben@SEO Horror” or “Ben@Internet Marketing”. The link in the comment will be the keywords, but we’re still able to see a name in there! Anyway, check this out man, this really is a nice addition!
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@ SEO Horror
Wow, how weird is that? I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I think I will check out that plug-in, it sounds good. Thanks Ben.
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Oh, boy, do I feel like a doofus! lol For me the form is automatically populated so I never really noticed. And even if I had, I wouldn’t have known to change it!
I will definitely read that article on anchor text. And thanks for your blog…never fails, every time I read it, I learn something new.
Eunice
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Well I’m glad it was cleared up for you Eunice, and don’t feel like a doofus, we’ve all been there and had to learn it the first time. I’m really glad this blog is helping you.
@ LCD
Thank you I appreciate it!
It isn’t working for me….LOL
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I absolutely love seeing the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv combo.
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Loving the information that I am learning here! I am signed up for your feed.
Thanks Marilyn and Welcome to the Blog
Thanks Breakaway and Welcome to the Blog!
JR thanks for this blog.
I have found it MOST USEFUL, Not just because of the do follow keywords but WOW!
the contents are great and very helpful.
Thank you so much
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@ Nigeria
thank you and welcome!
I think this says a LOT about your “mindset” here and I really appreciate your policy.
The whole do-follow movement’s purpose was two fold: increase comments AND link juice. I am truly baffled by the blog owners who claim to be no-follow but then moderate comments to REMOVE the keywords!
Your blog is a breath of fresh air. I can’t wait to be able to say “I was commenting way back when” about this blog!
@ Beyond Niche Marketing
You are so right, I always wonder what is the point of having a do-follow blog and then not allowing keywords, who the hell wants to rank for their first names???!!??? Thanks for the compliments I appreciate it and welcome to the blog!
Having commentluv and keywordluv is a fantastic way to get more comments on your blog.When people take the time to write a useful and helpful comment on a post, a link back is a good reward.
@ Tom
I completely agree and I love to show my appreciation for good comments. Thanks and welcome!
@ Cebu
Thank you and welcome to the blog!
@ Get out of Debt Help
Thanks and welcome!
@ Play Sonic
Thank you and you are right, I do look for meaningful comments, and I believe that this comment policy helps all of us!
@ Small Business Marketing
Thank you and welcome!
@ Germz
Yes, I all ready have!
@ University
The truth is that Google does NOT count no-follow links for link juice and page rank they are worthless, however Yahoo ignores the no-follow and does count all links for link juice.
I go back and forth with do-follow and no-follow on my blog. I can’t decide. Last time I changed it to do-follow I got a ton of crappy comments that were obviously there only because of the do-follow. So I switched back. I wish people would make just a little effort to make a comment that relates to the post rather than the mindless “This is a great blog, I will tell all my friends”.
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@ Hand Held
I completely agree with, some bloggers just don’t get it, glad you’re here, hope to interact with you often. Thanks for commenting I appreciate it!
I have been reading all of your blogs and have really learned a lot. Thank you so much for all your help and the kindness to help us out with the back links.
darbee
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Thank you I appreciate your very kind words.
Very good insightful information on this post!
Thanks, JR!
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Thank you, I appreciate it. Hope to interact with you in the future.
@ Consumer Product
Thanks for the links, I will add them to Social Bookmark List!
@ Consumer Product
Errors fixed! Thank you very much and welcome to the blog, hope to talk with you again!
I am glad that you are not uptight about putting keywords in the name field.
Do we know if these sorts of links pass very much Google juice? Also, if there are a lot of comments on a post, does this mean that any PR that is passed is diluted?
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JR reply on September 4th, 2008 11:46 pm:
@ Minneapolis
First, welcome to the blog!
Do-follow comment blogs are always good for backlinks, I would not worry too much about link juice being passed, in any situation. All in all, if you are actively building links, from diverse sources, such as articles, directories, social sitesl, forum sigs, blog comments, the collective amounts is what is important and not so much the individual juice being passed. I would rather have 100 PR 1 links than 1 PR 6 link!!!
Also, if you only look for high link juice links, that is a RED flag for Google, because it looks artificial, you always want lots of different links from different sources because they look natural.
I have never experienced any “dilution”, I comment on many high comment blogs and the link is counted every time.
If I am actively link building, at the end of the month I will have say 3,000 links, it’s the collective 3,000 that is important, and not so much the individual links. And, commenting on blogs is good for traffic from other readers, and you can easily pick up hundreds of links per month just being active on a few blogs.
I, as an active multiple blog commenter will always beat the guy who does not comment on blogs
Thanks for the dofollow link… and letting people know they can use anchor text. So long as the comment isn’t spam, most blog owners don’t care.
Thank you Baby Clothes and welcome to the blog, hope to interact with you more often!
Give me one PR6 link over 100 PR1 links any day. Where do you get such ideas? Must be coming from shoemoney or john chow or carolinemiddlebrook. I see you posting over at Grizz’s site, but I can bet Grizz would also rather have the 1 PR6 link. What do you think?
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Hi Greg,
That idea did not come from those bloggers. I actually just started reading Caroline’s blog and the other’s rarely offer any hands-on information anymore, John Chow mostly blogs about eating… lol.
I actually got this idea from experience, all though I know I am not the only one who believes this. The reason I prefer a 100 PR1 links, is because most of them will not stay PR1 a lot of them will rise in PR over time, so while I may get them as PR1 the next update 50 of them may become PR2 and 20 of them will PR4 for example, or 50 will become PR3 and 25 PR2, 15 PR4 etc… and that has been my experience. And the next update may be even better…make sense?
I am not saying that high PR links like PR6 are not great, but if I had to choose those 100 PR1 links can become much more valuable in volume of higher PR’s in the future than the 1 PR6 link.
Plus the fact that unless you are buying links, it is not so easy to get PR6 links when your site is new, much easier to get the 100 PR1’s that will grow over time and once those sites blow up, try to get a link from them then, very difficult.
Many times people discount lower PR sites because they are looking for those magic high PR links, but this is unrealistic and limits the possibilities greatly, and I think people forget that PR takes time to grow and those lower PR sites often will rise and explode and may surprise those that did not get in on the ground floor.
Same thing happened with this blog, when I first started I had requested some link exchanges with people who did not answer me because it was a PR0, but in two months came the G update and this blog went from PR0 to PR3 and now I get all kinds of requests for link exchanges.
This is a technique that has worked for me and this blog for instance sits on page 3 of SERPS without quotes with over 62,000,000 competition and it is a fairly new site, and most of my direct text links, trackbacks and sites linking to me one-way are from non PR6 sites.
I also have a couple of niche sites that sit on page 1 without quotes and the only PR 6 links are a few social bookmark sites, which mostly are no-follow anyway.
I build diverse links from all kinds of sources, low and high PR and it is working.
Oh and yes and I guess Grizz would probably want the PR6 link too, probably. I don’t want to say too much if you know what I mean, but sometimes it is also a matter of free vs. paid, you feel me? When you look at it from that perspective that can make a big difference between PR links, you know what I mean?
Thanks Mike and Welcome!
after learning this method from JR I used it so much and its doing good jobs for my websites thanks JR…
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You are welcome!
Thanks for posting this. I just wanted to you know that my blog is a do follow blog as well. I also have a great little plugin that creates a link directory on my site, so feel free to post there as well. I would appreciate a reciprocal one for the directory though. One last thing – I do use nofollow links for links on my sites that don’t need juice such as terms of service, guarantee etc.
Thanks JR, it is great to actually get some help back when writing thoughtful comments on Do-Follow blogs. It is interesting though, that some of the do follow blog writers get upset with you if you change the URL you are linking to. It is nice to actually get links to a different interior page such as a larger real estate website, after a while. Keep writing. This is great.
Jim
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Great post, explaining something that should be obvious to anyone who does any research online, but it is funny how often that doesn’t matter. Thanks for sharing this SEO information.
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Thanks for taking the time to explain this SEO principal to everyone.
It’s surprising how many bloggers have dofollow comments but don’t want their commentators to use SEO anchor text.
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I HATE THAT, it makes NO sense, who the heck wants to rank for their first names
Great post, you would think this would be an obvious one, especially as most people looking at blogs these days are interested in promoting a link back. What annoys me, and I am finding this more and more, is that blogs advertising the fact that they are promoting comments with keywords anchors then do not publish your comment when you make one! Frustrating for the likes of me as I always read the post and make an appropriate comment! Wouldn’t mind being rejected if I was actually ‘spamming’ i.e. ‘great post/great blog’ on every blog I visit.
Would you happen to have any advice or list of decent blogs that are proven to accept keyword anchor links to a genuine ‘commenter’? If you do, please email.
Many thanks.
Oh, by the way – great post / great blog!
Do you realize that all of the links in the comments are “nofollow?”
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@ MN
no they are not all nofollow, only some of them are, here is the updated Comment Policy – http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2010/07/new-comment-policy-and-do-follow-comment-changes/