To be honest Joe I don’t believe in a link building technique that rules, I think you need to use a mixture of strategies. The problem I have with blog commenting is that most blogs are no follow and the ones that aren’t usually pass very little juice, however thats not to say you can’t use it in small niches. For niche sites I like to use a mixture of directory submissions, article marketing and making use of blog networks like linkvana.

If blog commenting is working for your niche sites then don’t stop, all I would say is try to mix it up a little as if Google were ever to devalue blog comment links you could see a huge drop.

Go ahead pat yourself on the back. It really is simple common sense but you would be surprised at the amount of blogs that do not include simple navigation widgets. This is one case of blogging where “what is good for the user is also good for search engines”. You want your readers to find your best stuff not just to entice them to subscribe but for them to fire you a link maybe??

There are many different approaches to blogging, you have the 100% “I do it because I like writing” bloggers, you have the “social bloggers” who attempt to build communities around a particular niche, then you have the “internet marketing bloggers” who target search engines in an attempt to pull in targeted traffic that convert, I think most of the advice on this blog falls into the “internet marketing category” however every now and again I show the benefits of social techniques, because SEO and Social Marketing do meet in areas.

Thanks for reading and your comment, its appreciated.

I’m not patting myself on the back–I’m congratulating you. Common sense ideas always seem the best.

Thanks for sharing, that plugin looks interesting, I’ll definitely check it out.

Good point about the trackbacks, I find on my own blog that a lot of visitors click on the trackback links. Trackbacks in general are great for getting links to deep posts, obviously for the links to count they need to be dofollow.

I think your right to keep commenting on a social level, there are better ways to go about simply building links.

Thanks for your input.

All I would say is stick with dofollow blogs you have an actual interest in, try here to find them http://www.dofollowblogs.com/, don’t forget there are other ways to get links and recognition. Guest posting is a great way to get some blog recogniition and directories and articles can still work to increase your search rankings.

Use lots of methods incase one stops working.

I love blog commenting, mostly for the relationships it builds. I’ve also experimented with commenting to the doFollow blogs as well as the “KeywordLuv” blogs. It has had some moderate effect, but in the end I don’t see blog commenting as long term link building strategy. However, it is essential for a beginning blogger to start gaining exposure and links, even if they’re “no-follow”.

I haven’t bothered with climbing the top commentator lists as it takes a lot of time and like you said, you’ll be out of the list unless you keep it up. On the other hand, I’ve had great experiences with trackbacks and blogs that list “latest trackbacks” on the sidebar. Of course it’s a whole new subject, but as the trackback on the other blog is usually linked with your posts title, it can send great direct traffic as well as have SEO effect.