subject: Is Blog Commenting A Spamming? [print this page] Is Blog Commenting A Spamming? Is Blog Commenting A Spamming?
Blog commenting is considered to be an important factor in SEO due to which you increase quality backlinks of your site. And if the blog is do-follow then it is more precious. So in the eye of SEOs, it is important to perform blog commenting with other SEO processes when you optimize a website for backlinks and traffic. First of all I tell you what is blog commenting?
It is a technique of link building in which you comment to any blog (related to your product/site) with your website's link. This link is preferred to be inserted on the targeted keyword which is present inside your comment but also, some SEOs put it at the last of the comment (commonly called signature) because some blogs have signature option.
Is blog commenting a spamming or a kind of spamming? This question disturbed me too much. Because while performing this, our moto is always only just to put the link of our websites. We just read some lines of that blog and then comment it. Not only this, but I have seen a big kind of spamming too in blog commenting that a lot of people don't comment smartly. They just fill their comment section with a lot of keywords with their website's link. Some optimizers just post such comments that are totally on different topics. Take a look:
You can see in these comments that every one posted its comments with the keywords linked to their website. In the first one, you can see that this person must have an apparel shop because it put links on the keywords "sunglasses online", "replica sunglasses", "designer handbags", etc. The second one put its signature on "mobility scooters" and "foley catheters" and the third one put his link on keyword "thesis help". Now the strange thing is that the post on which these comments were added is related to stainless steel. Then what? You see it is the totally spamming.
Ok if I perform blog commenting smartly and in a right way. For example I am optimizing a website related to stainless steel and I am targeting the keyword "stainless steel pipe". I search blogs related to that topic and start commenting. Some blogs are very big that contain too much materials and mostly if I have no much time to read it then I just read some lines and then comment with the keyword linked to my site. Then don't you think it is a spamming? In that situation, what is the purpose of commenting? Just to put the link on our targeted keyword that causes increasing backlinks as well as traffic.
For knowing the clear answer of it, I asked that question to some Search Engine Optimization experts of major countries. I also discussed this question in different SEO forums. So who explained me the genuine clearity, I am sharing their views: Mr. Jason Valens from UK very nicely explained. He said, "Blog commenting isn't spamming, but spamming blogs with comments is. If you're watching the top blogs in your niches (and you should be, set up a google alert) then adding comments that contribute some value to the post (You know, something actually thoughtful) then that isn't spam. Spamming comments does work in the short term (though this could start a debate as to if it only works in some markets, like the eternal 'buy steroids'). But expect your site or page to take a kicking pretty quickly. If you're willing to churn and burn it could be an effective short term strategy. Just keep your naughty and nice lists separate."
Another SEO from Australia named "seodash" on Digital Point Forums gave a very short and brief answer. According to him, "Well if the comments are genuine answers and relevant to the topic of blog post, then I think it's not a spam." A reputed name in the SEO industry of Pakistan, Sheikh Haseeb Bin Najam explained, "If our link is adding a value to that blog than it is not spamming. For example if you have site of weight loss and you comment on the blog of weight loss then it is not spam because it is topic related. But you are putting a link of furniture there then it is spam. If there are 1000 linked comments and all are related to the topic and value added then it is also not spam."
It is true that spammers are a lot. Quality and genuine links are in a very small quantity than spammers. To stop spamming, Google introduced the concept of "no-follow" links in all major free blogs like blogspot, wordpress, typed, etc due to which spamming comments don't effect negatively on your blog. Mr. Paul on Warrior Forum said, "At any point in time, any blog comment can be looked at by a live person and determine that it is spam. Spam has taken on many meanings, unfortunately. I'd say 99.999999% of all blog comments, that include a link, are spam. They are there for no reason other than to get a backlink. Some think they can fake it, but does that mean it's not spam? By including a high brow sentence relevant to the post, does that automatically mean it's not spam? Or just not looked upon as spam? Spam is spam is spam. I don't think google gives a hoot either way. That is, as far as taking names. The proof is the nofollow tag. If google could determine spam, 100% of the time, the need for nofollow goes away. But the nofollow does not mean spam. Just a way to lessen spam's effect. I don't think spam in this case is something google worries about."
As a conclusion of my research on blog commenting, I can say that comments that are valuable for blogs are not spam. But due to irrelevant commenting and just putting the website's link from majority of spammers, it is getting disreputable and negatively affecting on the working of genuine commenting too. So a danger is present that due to spammers, probably blog commenting will be winded up forever in the upcoming future.
