Keyword Anchor Text and a Reminder To My Readers - Do-Follow Blog
Internet Marketing, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization Do-Follow CommentsBy, JR
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 ;-).
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!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 am
You mean something like this? :o) Well, some of us knows about this but majority of people allows only names and not keywords so we are kind of used to that.
Anyway, really nice blog. I’ve been reading it a while and I think I’ll continue
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JR reply on August 3rd, 2008 3:57 pm:
@ LCD
Thank you I appreciate it!
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 am
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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JR reply on August 3rd, 2008 3:54 pm:
@ 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.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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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JR reply on August 3rd, 2008 3:56 pm:
@ Simple Internet Strategies
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.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 pm
It isn’t working for me….LOL
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August 4th, 2008 at 6:17 am
How very considerate of you!
August 4th, 2008 at 9:23 am
in my opinion that is taking more of a liberty on the commentators part, in my mind it shows they are just after links and if it happened to me i would just deny them that link.
Keyword love though as mentioned above is a slightly better idea and I have been replacing my site with that plugin. As to encourage comments but not so much as to just make it feel like spam.
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August 5th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Unfortunately, most blog owners don’t allow commenters putting keywords in the name spot
August 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I absolutely love seeing the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv combo.
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August 5th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Loving the information that I am learning here! I am signed up for your feed.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Thanks Marilyn and Welcome to the Blog
August 6th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Thank you for your post it is valuable information for me
August 6th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Some publishers are hesitant to do such strategies to blogs when they visit the latter for the reason that the owner might think of it as a spam. But then again, there are good persons, like you, helping out newbies like me. Thanks much and more power to your site!
regards,
jayl
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JR reply on August 9th, 2008 6:20 pm:
@ Cebu
Thank you and welcome to the blog!
August 7th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Great content man…. though some places dont like commenters using keywords…. but most don’t mind.
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JR reply on August 8th, 2008 12:04 am:
Thanks Breakaway and Welcome to the Blog!
August 9th, 2008 at 3:07 am
found this blog by way of eli’s. good stuff..
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JR reply on August 9th, 2008 6:21 pm:
@ Get out of Debt Help
Thanks and welcome!
August 9th, 2008 at 9:52 am
JR Thanks for allowing Do-Follow links on you blog. It’s important on our part as a commenter that we actually write something usual and pertinent to the post. It help the blog because we are adding useful content, and because the comment won’t be looked upon as spam. It helps us because the blog owner is more likely to approve our comments.
Do-Follow links are a win-win for both the blog owner and the commenter, but it requires we don’t abuse it.
Thanks
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JR reply on August 9th, 2008 6:22 pm:
@ 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!
August 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
As others have said, a lot of blogs consider keywords instead of your name spamming. But thanks for letting us know that it’s okay here!
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August 9th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
That’s pretty cool I’m guessing you’ll start to see a massive jump in comments now.
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JR reply on August 9th, 2008 6:25 pm:
@ Small Business Marketing
Thank you and welcome!
@ Germz
Yes, I all ready have!
August 9th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
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!
JR reply on August 9th, 2008 6:18 pm:
@ 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!
August 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
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.
JR reply on August 9th, 2008 6:23 pm:
@ Tom
I completely agree and I love to show my appreciation for good comments. Thanks and welcome!
August 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I do support the idea of all bloggers having a do-follow link,but as long as it serves as a positive influence.
I agree with brainnoodle:”Do-Follow links are a win-win for both the blog owner and the commenter, but it requires we don’t abuse it.”
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August 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Excellent article and excellent site!
August 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Thank goodness for do follow blogs or many newcomers to the internet would never get any exposure to their sites.
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August 12th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I wish someone who blog about the real truth behind “nofollow” tags. Some people say it doesn’t matter for google, then others say Yahoo pays attention to it, etc.
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JR reply on August 13th, 2008 1:24 am:
@ 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.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:49 am
I think you’ll find more and more people beginning to “follow” their links to help build up their own social community/subscribers.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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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August 14th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
nice article
August 20th, 2008 at 2:44 am
That is a really helpful explaination of anchored links in do follow comments and their purpose. My goal is an even exchange with a blog owner. I need a do follow link, the blog owner needs content. I usually write long, meaningful comments. So I am perplexed when a blog owner will not approve my commet.
JR reply on August 20th, 2008 2:55 am:
@ 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!
August 20th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
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
JR reply on August 20th, 2008 8:12 pm:
@homebound and happy
Thank you I appreciate your very kind words.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Thanks to the article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before! Everyone should participate. I am incorporating what your wrote to our project!
August 24th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I am subscribing to your feed so I don\’t miss the next post!
August 30th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Very good insightful information on this post!
Thanks, JR!
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JR reply on August 31st, 2008 2:28 am:
@Hartmann Luggage
Thank you, I appreciate it. Hope to interact with you in the future.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
@ Consumer Product
Thanks for the links, I will add them to Social Bookmark List!
September 1st, 2008 at 1:11 am
Np Jr.. Thanks for taking the time to add these links. I hope they help some of your readers out
September 1st, 2008 at 1:41 am
@ Consumer Product
Errors fixed! Thank you very much and welcome to the blog, hope to talk with you again!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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 11:47 pm:
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
September 7th, 2008 at 2:14 am
I agree with your post. Which is not something I will usually do!
I enjoy reading a post that will make one think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
September 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Thank you for your post it is valuable information for me
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
This is a great idea! i could have been in a higher PR if i did this sooner!
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:24 am
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.
JR reply on October 8th, 2008 6:33 am:
Thank you Baby Clothes and welcome to the blog, hope to interact with you more often!
November 9th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Got to say love your posts very informative. To some one like myself who is really just starting out you help alot thanks
November 10th, 2008 at 3:50 am
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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JR reply on November 11th, 2008 11:45 pm:
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.
JR reply on November 11th, 2008 11:48 pm:
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?
November 17th, 2008 at 2:14 am
This is a great tip. I just want to be sure I am doing it right. Thanks!
November 20th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Good stuff here…not a lot of fluff-straight to the point advice and much appreciated
thank you
Mike
JR reply on November 20th, 2008 2:19 pm:
Thanks Mike and Welcome!
November 28th, 2008 at 9:39 am
thank you very much
December 16th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Thanks JR
I just came across your blog, its fantastic and generous do follow comment is icing on the cake
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December 18th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
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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January 13th, 2009 at 5:01 am
thanks you
JR reply on January 13th, 2009 1:17 pm:
@çet
You are welcome!
January 21st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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.
February 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am
thanks for the tip….Could you explain how to make anchor text within the comment section? I found this info some time ago, but can’t find it again. Thanx!
JR reply on February 8th, 2009 1:34 pm:
@mineral makeup
What do you mean in the comment section? Whenever you want to anchor text a link just use the html code I put in the post.
I would add it here but it will turn it into a link, the code is up there in the post, it is the first example code listed.
February 15th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Very nice
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March 13th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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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March 13th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
you are very generous to share backlink to fellow bloggers.
thanks Jr
March 13th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
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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April 7th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
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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JR reply on April 8th, 2009 12:46 am:
@Josh
I HATE THAT, it makes NO sense, who the heck wants to rank for their first names