Internet Marketing Strategy Blog By Roy Sencio

So you have a blog, but are you getting any traffic?

In order to promote their blog, many people leave comments on other people’s blog and in fact, I also have spent countless hours looking for blogs which are of the same topic or theme to leave a comment.

Leaving a comment, especially if it has a space where you can enter your website URL, is just a way of putting a one way link pointing back to our site which is a simple off page SEO strategy.

There are two benefits to this actually, since it is a link:

• the immediate effect could be traffic as a direct referral from that site where you left your comment, which basically means someone on that site read your comment ad probably liked what you had to say, and liked it enough to click the link back to your site
• the second and long lasting and more significant effect are SEO gains, especially if that site is higher in authority, or higher in page rank… the search engines see this as a quality link

Now here’s the problem, many bloggers do not know, especially those on WordPress, that the default setting for comments is “nofollow”. This was a feature adapted around 2005 as a measure against spam-dexing, where people were manipulating search engine rankings by link spamming. What that piece of code found on a site does is, it tells the search engine not influence the link target’s search ranking, in other words… you don’t get any search credits for putting that link on that site.

Now its good to have instant traffic, but even more significant and long term is traffic gained from search engines, as a result of a great linking strategy like commenting on other people’s blogs, just make sure that there is no “nofollow” attribute on that blog otherwise you would have wasted all those hours searching and commenting… you might get a trickling of traffic from that referring site though.

So, before you waste your time leaving a lot of comments on other people’ s blogs and not get any SEO points for that from the search engines, get your hands on this for you to find out how to use Google to find blogs that DO NOT use the NOFOLLOW attribute on the comments in their blogs, and increase your search engine rankings.

I got this tip from Jon Leger, and I’d like to share it with you. Just click this link to Jon Leger and get that priceless tip right now. You could be saving yourself from a whole of effort making comments which don’t help your search engine ranking.

Good luck and may you find the traffic, that has not found you.

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