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Days 8 and 9 – Finding Blogs to Comment and Join Discussions!

There have been many questions about how to find the best blogs to start your commenting strategy! Before I start showing a few of the ways you can, I want to reiterate one very specific thing… Do not Spam other Blogs with Comments! You will do nothing more than have your comments deleted and may even piss off the site owner. One way or another, it is nothing more than wasting your own time… and as we all know, time is the one thing we do not want to waste!

Why Comment on Other Blogs?

In order to work out your own best strategy… its important to understand WHY you want to comment on other blogs. The purpose of a blog in the first place is to build a community a readers who are all interested in that same topic. By finding related blogs and joining in their discussions, you will start building a community of your own as the visitors of their site, are likely to be the same target of your own. As long as you are true to the discussion and provide topic related comments, your own readership and traffic will increase as well!

Comment your Posts – Not just your Entire Blog!

Your new website is not a 1 page site and your comment strategy must take that into account! In other words, as you travel the web looking for discussions to share your own content, do not focus on your main page only.

For example, my new site may be about DIY Projects, but one of my last posts was about DIY Halloween Costumes. As I travel the web today… I am going to look for discussions related to making your own Halloween Costumes and for the anchor URL, I will use my post for the link, not the main site root!

Finding Blogs to Comment and Join Discussions

There are several ways you can go about finding the right blogs to join discussions. One way, is to just use the Google blog search! Head over and search for a few of your tags or keywords in your post and Google will return a list of blog posts on the topic! You have the option of narrowing them down to recent posts… or just about as far back as you want to go.

I know someone is going to ask… “Should I Comment on Old Posts? So I will answer it ahead of time… If you want to bring live visitors to your site, why would you bother commenting on a 2 year old post, UNLESS it still has active comment discussion going on today!

For visitors, I will choose to limit the results to posts in the last 24 hours… this will return a group of results that are recently published and most likely to send traffic to my own post on the topic.

Taking the Low Road – Why Commenting got a Bad Name

On the dark side of this… If an older post has pagerank, the site has authority, and the blog participates in using Do Follow links on their comments, you can gain quite a bit of authority of your own by adding a comment to the post, as long as the site owner still approves comments on older posts.

Purely hypothetically speaking, if I wanted to increase my own site authority, I could go through the OLDER posts and with a few extra steps, choose only those that are allowing do-follow in their comments. By submitting to these… I am more likely to increase my own site authority quicker. Firefox even has an SEO plugin that will highlight the nofollow links for you so you know immediately if a site uses sends juice to yours or not.

If you want to try out a tool that searches all blogs and returns a list of do-follow posts, sorts them by pagerank and date, try the free version of Fast Blog Finder (Free download link) or visit their homepage to read more. I used it this morning for the first time and got an immediate list of 3 do-follow blog posts with PR4 using the free edition! With the $49 paid version, it returns unlimited results… meaning you could get a list of hundreds of do-follow posts to comment on!

Hypothetically… If I really want to get the most of dofollow blogs, I could post on older posts with existing authority. As soon as I see my comment live on the site, I could then add the link to that post to my own social bookmarking accounts and update them. Taking it one step farther… I could ping my own bookmark pages to update services, telling google and other search engines that my page has been updated. They come to my page and follow the links to those pages that contain my do follow link, follow those links to my site pages, thus getting immediate indexing. :-) BUT… this is purely hypothetical.

Debunking the No Follow Beliefs

Just because a link is coded with no-follow, DOES NOT mean its actually NOT followed! Read the Wikipedia nofollow pageto get a true understanding, much more indepth than I will go. Even Google, who is largely responsible for promoting this no follow tag to stop pagerank manipulation, follows the links! If the page is already in the google index, it will even reindex it! Yahoo completely ignores the no follow tag and MSN is yet to tell us what they do with it!

My Tasks for Days 8 & 9

  1. One new Blog post per day (Sound familiar?)
  2. Submit my site to 10 more blog directories
  3. Comment on 5 related blog posts
  4. Update my own link pages and ping the updates to blog search engines

How else do you find related blogs to join the discussions?

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About the Author, Mark Hansen

has written 573 article(s) at the Niche Store Builder site.

I have been doing my part to "Build the Internet" since 1994, when I built my first website! Since then, I have built hundreds of niche websites for myself and many others, focused on design, applications, ecommerce, search optimization and internet marketing. 

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