As my team of SEO experts create quality and valuable backlinks for our clients, we noticed a trend which is concerns us in terms of the SEO industry as the backlinks that other people create are very poor in quality and have no ranking value.
We usually would not be giving out SEO back link tips but as SEO companies create bad and useless backlinks, this effects the whole industry and makes the SEO industry look like a bunch of charlatans and ripp-off artists.
SEO companies have to realize that they have a responsibility when it comes to providing SEO services as our actions is what defines us a good industry or as a bad one.
Its difficult enough getting clients that are willing to pay our rates but it makes it 100 times harder to convince a potential client to use your SEO services when they have had many bad experiences in the past from previous SEO companies.
Without further ado here are some basics do’s and dont tips:
- Do not Use a robot to spam blog comments.
- When you create an SEO backlink, make sure that it is a dofollow(its ok if its just for branding purposes)
- Do not use hidden text
- Make sure that it is a permanent link
- An SEO backlink is always more relevant when it is part of an article or a phrase.
They are many more but I hope that this will help.
Blog Comments SEO Strategy
In the last few months, I have noticed an increase in people leaving spam comments in this blog and a few other blogs that we manage for clients. Here are my thoughts on this.
As an SEO strategy, posting in blog post is 99% of the time ineffective as most blogs have their post set so that all links in the comments area are nofollow. Unless you are trying to get SEO ranking on websites that do not care about that tag then its pretty useless in getting SEO rank.
If you still intend on working the blog comment seo strategy then first do a nofollow check and then, write an actual comment. If you just add a keyword to the blog post and a link to a sex website or a viagra site, its too obvious and its going to get deleted.
If you leave a generic comment like “nice post and check out my site at ……” its going to get deleted and get you banned.
So for the people who do this, learn how to do SEO and stop wasting time. A good backlink is worth 1,000 crappy backlinks from a blog comment section.
Take Gary Stocktin’s example of a blog post comment. He gave out a real comment and so I checked his url and it to CMS product blog that has excellent blogging content in it. The website itself contains some very good products for sell backup software products that I would gladly buy as any company that care about their data should always have a reliable back up system.
Get my drifts spammers and SEO amateurs, do things the right way and you will get a reward!!!!