Blog Comment Links, Have They Lost Their Value? Well Let’s Experiment.
Posted: 六月 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: SEM | 评论关闭When it comes to blog commenting many experts will tell you that it is of little value SEO wise or link building wise as Google and other search engines have devalued these links as spam.
Now given that Google themselves don’t completely know how their algorithm works who are these experts to tell us that blog commenting is of no value? Let’s play fair, if these experts have proved by building links solely from blog commenting that they have no effect on SERPs then maybe we should heed their cry.
As of yet I have seen no proof that blog comment links do not help with SERP’s in fact I have seen quite the opposite. But let us take for a moment the fact that I for one as a professional link builder have never just built blog comment links, ah! Well, there you go say’s the critic, that’s why you don’t know, but have they carried out this test themselves?
It is for this reason that I propose to experiment over the next 2 months to see if in fact just blog comments can in fact work to increase a website’s SERP’s. Now, if this experiment is going to be fair we will need to test websites which only have blog comment links built to them, also websites which have no links built to them, websites which have other types of links built to them and finally some which have other types of links and blog comment links built to them.
So in my experiment there will be 4 groups of websites;
1) No links built.
2) Only blog comment links built.
3) Only other links built.
4) Other links and blog comment links built.
By having these four groups I should be able to see if in fact blog comment links have a relation to the website’s SERP’s. If it is the case that blog commenting links have no relation to SERP’s then group 3 and 4 should see the highest SERP’s movement. If group 4 or 2 get higher SERP’s than 3 and 1 or group 4 get the highest positions in SERP’s, then this will prove that blog comments do in fact help with SERP’s.
I realise there are other variables and so I shall be attempting to eliminate as many of these as possible with the criteria below. If you feel there are ways in which I can do this better please fell free to tell me.
1) I shall be using DIY (Home improvement), quality blogs which relate to the website’s theme. I shall also be posting relevant content in my comments which will relate to the post. (Key words)
2) I shall use 3 websites in each all 4 groups, all the same age, with around the same content and with no current links pointing at them.
3) I shall check all positions on Google.co.uk, yahoo.co.uk, bing.co.uk for the websites url and 2 key words which I would like them to rank for. I shall use Google Adwords to find key words which are as similar as possible in competition (this competition cannot be known for sure but by using Adwords I am at least helping to keep the experiment as fair as possible).
4) I shall also build all of the links at the same time to keep the results as fair as possible.
If you would like to follow this experiment please add a link to this post from your own website and then email me ewan@naturallinkbuilding.co.uk to be kept updated of all the results. I shall also disclose to those who give a link the url’s of all the 12 websites in the experiment. If not I shall be giving the details of the results when completed.
Blog Comment Links, Have They Lost Their Value? Well Let’s Experiment.