Increase Backlinks With Blog Comments and Wikipedia
74 Comments July 3, 2008 / Posted in SEO/SEMThis article is a guest Post by Jon Waraas. Jon runs an affiliate marketing and SEO blog at www.jonwaraas.com.
Lets get some backlinks for your site so you can start ranking for that term you always wanted and make some cash money.
In this blog post, we will be going over a two different ways to gain backlinks such as blog comments and Wikipedia links. These two methods work the best for sites with less competitive keywords in Google, the reason is because it takes some work to get these links.
Before I begin, I want to remind you yet again that you should focus on having your website content building the natural backlinks more so than working on building backlinks to an average website. When making a website, you should focus on content and then once you get great content you should start working on your link building campaign. Let us take a look at this image I made:
The chart reflects the traffic you will be building. As you can see, you wont be building much traffic at all at first, you would be focusing on the quality of the content and making your website better than the competition. Once you done with the content you will focus on building links. Since your links will be sending you a little bit of traffic your traffic will obviously will go up. Then once you get the necessary backlinks to your website you will start ranking for the search terms you are trying to rank for, and that is when your traffic will start taking off.
Once you website does start ranking for the search term, more and more people will find your website and see how great the quality of it is, and then they will build the links for you, and those are called natural backlinks. Sadly, you get the most natural backlinks once your site ranks for the keywords your after. Because people will search for the keyword, see your site, and then blog about your website or something along those lines. But, you will also be building natural backlinks from people stumbling onto your website the whole time.
I tell everyone this, focus on the quality of the content… then work on building backlinks. With that said lets get started.
Blog Comments
Blog comments are a great way to get backlinks to your website, heck I even sell them. But, they aren’t too powerful and you need a lot of them to make much of a difference. But if you just need like 200 backlinks to rank for a keyword than they are great way to get there. You should never rely completely on blog comments to help build backlinks, they tend to get less powerful over time.
A few things about blog comments:
- You need a lot to make a difference.
- Great for ranking for smaller terms.
- Sends less weight over time.
I personally use blog comments a lot, but only when my website is brand new. If you have a small term that you want to rank for that only needs a few hundred backlinks for your site, then Blog Comments are the way to go!
It’s pretty easy to get the blog comments, and I will be telling you the exact same way my comment writers use for my company. With blog comments you need to make sure that your website is very very related to the website you are commenting on. To find thousands of blogs to post relevant comments on, we use Technorati. To find a list of blogs about your niche, all you have to do is a search on Technorati. So, say you need comments about “apartments”, simply enter “apartments” into the search text box.
You will then see pages and pages of blogs talking about apartments (or whatever your blog is about). You then have to find blog posts that are related to your niche, that’s pretty easy, all you have to do is read the description about the blog post.
Once you find the blog post you want to comment about, simply go to the blog post, then read the blog post, and then make a decent comment about the blog post. Don’t make it too spammy looking so the blog admin wont delete your comment. A little trick I like to use so the admin won’t delete my comments is I make two or three blog comments per blog on different blog posts to make it look like I read over a his or her blog a little. On my own blog, I generally never delete comments from people that make a few at a time, they always seem to be readers of mine. I find that to work in a lot of cases. You should also use a web proxy when writing comments. I have gotten my own IP banned from Wordpress, and so have many other SEO experts I know. The best way is to buy your own cheap VPS and get like 29 IP’s and then put 3proxy on it. That’s the least stressful way to get proxies.
When you write your comments, make sure to save the blog post where you write the comments in a text file or something for later use, you may want to comment that blog post later to help boost your ranking a little.
Wikipedia
Good ol’ Wikipedia! These links help SO much! The links are nofollow, but I feel like Google gives special attention to outbound links on Wikipedia. When you get some Wiki links, you will be feeling the Wiki love.
But how do we get the Wiki links? It’s total pain! And to be honest, I fully haven’t mastered this yet. I don’t think I ever will. I only get Wiki links for my bigger sites that make me money. I don’t work on building Wiki links for websites I don’t really care to much about. It’s a lot of work, and most of the time your links will be taken off, so its a big pain.
The best way to get Wiki links is to put a lot of work into your Wiki account. Go over some topics you know and edit them a little bit. What you want to do is get some history behind you, get some trust behind you. When you first get your Wiki account, don’t just dive head into spamming wikipedia and hoping the mods won’t delete all your links - because they will.
When you first get your account, find some topics you know about and edit them. The amount of articles you edit is up to you, I think I have done only 20 articles in about 2 years time. So not much at all, but enough to get enough history behind me as I have about 8 Wiki links on that account.
Okay, after you edit some articles, you want to first find rare articles with a high page rank that don’t get edited to much at all. They take some time to find, but there out there. One way I find the rare article is I do a Google search on my niche, and then start at around page 5. I then look at the history and see when the article was last edited on, I try to find articles that where last edited around 2006 or before that.
Here is a Google search for the niche “apartments”.
Once you find your rare article, edit the content and then add your link somewhere on the page. I usually add mine to references. I also link to a subpage of mine, I think that linking to just the www.domain.com looks too spamy for wikipedia.
After you add your link its just a game of luck. Hopefully, the mods wont see your link and take it off. But, like I said before, Wiki links are a pain. However, once you get some they are worth it! Trust me.
Wiki link process review:
- Edit topics you know.
- Build your history.
- Find rare article on your niche.
- Edit the content and add your link in the references.
- Pray the mods don’t take your link off.
- Repeat.
Alright, I hoped you enjoyed this guest blog post. Now get to work building those backlinks.
About Jon Waraas
Oh you know, I do SEO and affiliate marketing. You can read about my adventures on my blog here. I also run Buy Blog Comments and Buy Answers Links at which I sell backlinks and traffic for your website.
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Nice post Jon!
hmm, so this gentleman basically says that spamming is OK if we do not make it look like spam … I would suggest that next plugin you may think off is some spam filter that will help us identify guys who listen to Jon Waraas and spam comment around
Akismet may not work …
Hey Great Post! I found it really informative.
Thanks again.
Chris
http://myinternetbusinesssuccessonline.com
Can’t believe you allowed this post on your blog Nate. And to say that Jon does SEO is saying that I’m the president; he’s not great at SEO imo. These services he has are not really WH, and are not really ethical either. You run a clean company, but allowing this post shocks me a little. tsk tsk
I wrote a little article on nofollow links not that long ago. To cut the story short there was a script developed for spammers to spam a particular script which is nofollow. However they were still able to rank for various keywords they were targeting even though every single link was nofollow.
Jon is not talking about contributing spam in the traditional sense like “pills” links to a blog. All of the comments (links) he is talking about building end up being relevant comments to the discussion or topic at hand. Ultimately, unless someone does *not* link to their own site, we will truly never know if someone is trying to add value to a conversion or just build links for their own site. Personally I don’t have a problem with people wanting to build links through my site *IF* they are contributing to the comment conversation. We need to allow for the existence of dual motives when people are commenting. Otherwise, plugins like the “Top Commentators” plugin would not be as popular as they are.
I’ve been trying to get some links from Wikipedia for a while now, but they keep rejecting me. I guess I am going to have to try another method (maybe linking to a more reputable site that links back to me?) Maybe then the link juice would flow to my blog.
That’s an interesting point there about Wiki. Of course blog comments will get you the links but the Wiki idea got me thinking now.
Wiki links are a pain, but they help a lot.
Yoda - Whats so shocking? Wouldn’t you want to know everything about SEO? Knowledge is power. I’m not saying you have to go out and do blog comment link building just because its on Nates blog. I’m just exposing everyone on unique ways to get your website ranked.
Chris Spires - your on the path of blog comment link building
I too am rather surprised. I also find it hard to understand how an individual blogger can say visit forty/fifty blogs every day and comment while at the same time take care of her own blog. Any way, I shall indeed try and do a few and see what happens.
Wow, the wiki thing is something that i am very new about.. Thanks…
Wikipedia is indeed a magic site. I suppose Google has a special trust on it and assume all its contents are regulated and reputable.
Yet getting an essay up on Wikipedia is never an easy thing, the essays have to be comprehensive and descriptive enough lest they can be easily screened by administrators.
After all, good contents rules.
You have to be very careful using Wikipedia to build links. I jumped in and added some links to my sites, and I was quickly shut down by the moderators.
I was actually impressed by their editorial control over something as huge as Wikipedia. You’d think that a simple link here or there would go unnoticed, but it doesn’t.
One thing to remember is that you can’t count on any single method for your links. Your link profile needs to be very diverse.
Gosh i did not not what you meant when you said pray that they dont take off your link. They do that a LOT i now realize!
I think the important part with wikipedia is to link to some REALLY useful content. Linking to your homepage is absolutely useless, because it does not add value. But when you put some valuable content together on some subpage and set a link to it, then the link may stay on wikipedia.
Will try to get some links from wiki’s and let you know, thanks.
Interesting article. I need to read it again in order to digest all the information correctly!
That was interesting to read.
Commenting is the single best way to promote a new blog.
Hey, NHW, It’s wonderful article by Warras, well i want to know, here is in the graph content at the bottom part, so what does it mean? links are having more important than unique and quality content? hope to hear from you very soon.
Great post from Jon. Another advantage of commenting on other blogs is the personal relationships you build with other bloggers.
Wow, thank you for the great article! I will try the tips to my blog.
Youre a great blogger!
No summarizing and advise from Jon?
Thanks for the post, very interesting!
Good point for Wikipedia. Previously I have heard advice not to post company profile to wikipedia as anyone could edit the contain.
Every time I get comments from someone who found my site through Technorati they tend to be useless and spammy.
Most of these commentators obviously haven’t even read the post!
If they had said something useful I would have approved them.
The golden rule has to be to leave something that adds to the post in some way, not just a link-gathering exercise.
good post, I will use these methods , Thanks!!
Interesting article, thank you Jon.
I know a lot of people are considering this spam, but if you are adding value to any website whether it be wiki, blogs, forums, whatever. You will probably find they will grant you the link.
I know a lot of you are considering this SPAM but if you are adding value to a website, whether it be a wiki, blog, forum or whatever, you will probably find they will grant you the link.
Wiki links are a pain in the ass. Blog comments are not spam if they provide value to the discussion.
Thats a nice article..
but its hard to get to wikipedia, i will try comment thingy
I’ve tried making blog comment for the sake of link building couple of time and I totally agree with Jon the Author when hes says you need a lot to make a difference. It is also a time consuming activity But I can also say it fruitfull to some extent..
You make it seem far too easy. How about a more concrete, real-life example?
Getting backlinks from wikipedia seems hard, it’s best to just stick with getting backlinks from blog comments.
woooooo very helpful man! i appreciate it!
This was very helpful read. Thank you
Really great post, thx …
Nice post. The importance of blog commenting is talked all the time but very few know how to do it properly.
Obviously, if someone visited your blog and comment with a URL going back to their website or blog in a signature, it is acceptable as long as that person provide some value to the community. But it should not be done just for the sake of getting backlinks.
excellent post
Wikipedia can be a fairly long process, blog comments is generally much faster I find
Backlinks help in more ways than one as I recently discovered.
Make sure on your backlinks that you target anchor text.
I am rather dispointed that Jon has not summarized and concluded as I was hoping he would!
I like to leave comments on different sites in my niche. It definitely gives me the incentive to return to check to see the follow ups on my comment. Also, wonderful way to get involved in an ongoing discussion that interests you Good luck with your site.
Even though blog commenting works at the moment, Google’s explicitly said that it’s trying to crack down on blog commenting for purely SEO uses. Don’t you think Google will find a way to be stricter with the nofollow tag? For all we know, the nofollow tag is used by googlebot but the extra ranking and pr comes from the fact that other major search engines don’t use it yet. If they use the tag too, all that blog commenting for purely SEO purposes wouldn’t work. What do you think? Just curious.
Thank you for this info. It helps out a lot and answered a lot of questions I had.
That was interesting to read.
I’ll certainly start searching technorati to help me build links from commenting on blogs. Even if the value of the link decreases over time, it sounds worth it for the short term.
It’s really nice way to increase backlinks through wiki, but how i can i make .edu back links for my websites
Great information that I will be using a lot. I never knew about Wikipedia, but I will have to try it out and see if it works my for sites.
How important is it to vary your anchor text and when first starting out it is more important to target your homepage or should you vary the linking url?
Thanks
I’ve done this before I get started to create my brand new blog and it’s work. Now I know how the blogging spirit is to build, just keep it natural.
thanks for sharing this great post. it’s really helpful.
This is really interesting way, but the most difficult phase is step 5th that you have mentioned. Doing a lot work after it, mods off the link, than it will be worthless. what do you think?
I have NEVER successfully built links out of Wikipedia. The link nazis always kill them. I do however agree 100% with your techniques / ranking philosophy.
i wud like to give a suggestion to those who never became succesful for makin links in wikipedia… get the content u best know from every where in the web and society, excluding wikipedia, rewrite wisely, and dan implement, you will get 100% success…
I enjoy wikipedia, but if I clicked on what seemed to be a spammy link I would report it. So with editors and people reporting to the editors about spammy links, I don’t know if the work is worth the result for Wikipedia.
Not to mention adding a different opinion or argument. Sort of replying to an email from a friend.
I find Wikipedia to be very scary. They’ve been downright mean to some colleagues, and I was embarrased for them as I saw it happen. DMOZ to me is a little easier. If you can get to be an editor for a category that suits, you’re doing great. But like Wikipedia you need to have history and to be unbiased, which takes work and time for the first, and can somewhat defeat the purpose on the second.
I always accept users with keywords as their display names on comments as long as the comment they are posting adds something to my site. Commenters with keyword names are only problem when they post worthless comments.
With Wikipedia using nofollow now I don’t think I will pursure with that link building technique. It is very time consuming and I don’t feel that the gain is worth the effort. You may get traffic but will it be useful traffic? Although people do trust Wikipedia.
nice idea , but any one can edit wikipedia and remove my link :S
I really enjoyed reading this post. Relatively new to seo, I’ve found the information provided here very helpful. It sounds like a pain to try and get listed on wiki, but when you think about it, links from such a huge site would be very beneficial. I really need to do some more research on how to author for wiki.
Hi Nate, I don’t understand how commenting can add backlinks? I mean where do you put your link? in the website field? Does Google consider that a backlink? Or do you have to leave it in the comment section like this : http://www.bigfortuneonline.net to be considered a backlink? Remove the link if you think this is spam. I just need to know the answer.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks alot got your post. I think as you said that comments on blogs are much easier. I guess i have passed the first part of the chart which is good contents and need to move to the next one which is traffic. You just mentioned hundreds. Do you mean hundreds comments in a few blogs or hundreds comments in alot of blogs?
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If the blog comments are no follow, will they still help.
Hi, Jon, Great post, nice information share with all. Thanx.
Hi Jon, It was a really informative post… i will try the wikipedia thingy soon.. thanks
Hi Jon, It was a really informative post… i will try the wikipedia thingy soon.. thanks
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