Increase Backlinks With Blog Comments and Wikipedia
Posted on July 03, 2008 by Nate Whitehill
This 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.
Discussion: 110 Comments
Florida Search Engine Optimization
- 4th Aug, 08 12:08am
It’s really nice way to increase backlinks through wiki, but how i can i make .edu back links for my websites
Pays to live green
- 12th Aug, 08 06:08am
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.
Canadian Real Estate
- 17th Aug, 08 09:08pm
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
Armand
- 23rd Aug, 08 12:08pm
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.
redlan
- 27th Aug, 08 09:08pm
thanks for sharing this great post. it’s really helpful.
Web Designing India
- 2nd Sep, 08 04:09am
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?
Jon Marks
- 2nd Sep, 08 07:09am
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.
Internet Shopping
- 2nd Sep, 08 09:09am
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…
Steve
- 3rd Sep, 08 11:09am
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.
SP
- 3rd Sep, 08 04:09pm
Not to mention adding a different opinion or argument. Sort of replying to an email from a friend.
Ecommerce Blog
- 4th Sep, 08 08:09pm
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.
iPod Fan
- 5th Sep, 08 11:09am
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.
Femto
- 7th Sep, 08 11:09pm
nice idea , but any one can edit wikipedia and remove my link :S
Fail Funnies
- 9th Sep, 08 07:09am
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.
curiousman
- 10th Sep, 08 04:09am
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.
Tito
- 13th Sep, 08 08:09am
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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Lizzy
- 15th Sep, 08 02:09pm
If the blog comments are no follow, will they still help.
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- 21st Sep, 08 10:09pm
Hi, Jon, Great post, nice information share with all. Thanx.
Hassan Ahmad
- 29th Sep, 08 12:09am
Hi Jon, It was a really informative post… i will try the wikipedia thingy soon.. thanks
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- 8th Oct, 08 09:10am
Hi Jon, It was a really informative post… i will try the wikipedia thingy soon.. thanks
Gustavs
- 14th Oct, 08 12:10am
have You ever tried to get from wikipedia, by adding them in non English patges. I think it should be much easier…??
vimal
- 24th Oct, 08 03:10am
nice post.. i’m gonna try the wikipedia strategy you mentioned..
Gomez
- 24th Oct, 08 11:10am
Ya I agree with the Author jon make it too easy to commenting the blogs and they he is talking about building end up being relevant comments to the discussion,the links like the Wiki idea got me thinking good.
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weide
- 2nd Jan, 09 06:01pm
very informative, good job
Jason
- 22nd Jan, 09 08:01pm
All these days I thought blog comments were useless but now I see why users are tempted to leave posts. This changes my whole perspective on the matter. Thanks for the great article Nate.
pbyeoh
- 12th Feb, 09 04:02pm
Great blog Jon. Not sure if posting links in Wikipedia will work though.
Task Manager Disabled
- 13th Feb, 09 01:02am
Very creative thoughts, dude you rock!!!
Web Development
- 16th Feb, 09 12:02am
I’d tried a lot time with wikipedia, now i’m thinking about born of my organization and would like to post it.
Melbourne
- 2nd Mar, 09 09:03am
All Jon is saying is that it can be useful. I think by implication he is saying it needs to be relevant and useful information.
Jonathon Hall
- 6th Mar, 09 05:03am
I was brainstorming a little and thought of wiki myself, did a bit with it then found you.. great minds think alike hey..lol
some good ideas in here i will use though, thanks
Money Academy
- 14th Mar, 09 05:03am
i used both ways you write here ” comments and WIKI ” but didn’t get any results yet , but i think that it can be effective , but in wiki my articles and edites always have problems but i try it and actually it is good for traffic .
Tarik Pierce
- 16th Apr, 09 06:04am
Great article. One thing I let go in the recent months was my link building practices. I don’t have as much time to leave high quality blog comments or submit site to search engines. Outsourcing these activities is 100% solution for my problems. Best of all, it gets done no matter what, and I can’t screw things up. Would love to test your commenting services, Jon. Thanks for the awesome post.
Koong
- 17th Apr, 09 10:04am
What’s about Social Bookmark? My friends recommend me to save the new articles to my favorite bookmark and then publish. Do you have more ideas? Please give me advice.
Money Academy
- 18th Apr, 09 07:04pm
be careful while you use Wikipedia because they have great mods ” they always delete my links ” even if it is about the content , but the time before it deleted i got some traffic .
mike
- 23rd Apr, 09 02:04am
hey there. there’s a point u didnt clarify which is how do i find blogs that i can comment on. as u know there are lots of blogs that disable comments. thx
Toronto personal injury
- 27th Apr, 09 04:04am
Comments on blogs is a good and efficient way but i dont think like this about wikipedia.
Jagdeep
- 27th Apr, 09 04:04am
Very nice post , great info.
Jagdeep
- 27th Apr, 09 04:04am
Very Nice Info.
Toronto personal injury
- 30th Apr, 09 03:04am
Backline’s are links that are directed towards your website and blog are paying good role to get back links quickly.
Search Engine Analytics
- 2nd May, 09 09:05am
Just found your blog today. Really like it – keep up the good work.Domain info more important than you think
Domain information such as DNS, age of domain and even the expiration date are used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains.Why are google doing this? Simply to get all the factors they can to get an internal “trust score”.This “trust score” is used to eliminate “doorway” pages and spam in the search result.I’M not saying that it’s working perfectly – but they are doing a pretty good job.
James
- 2nd May, 09 10:05pm
Great post! Its so easy to lose sight of what to work on in what order with a blog and you re-enforce the rule that “Content is King” on the web! Thanks again.
Cheers,
James
Web Design
- 8th May, 09 03:05am
Hi Nate, in recent days, i followed wikipedia for movie marketing. I did tried for my movie website and got the good success over it, as well as handsome amount of visits to my new upcoming movie website.
Steve Baldry
- 18th May, 09 04:05am
I’ve been thinking about using Wikipedia for a while now. Thanks for the info – I might now give it a go.
vinoth
- 23rd May, 09 03:05am
I will try your wikipedia technique….
Buy Backline
- 11th Jun, 09 04:06am
I’ve been thinking about using Wikipedia for a while now.
Thanks for the info
mita
- 12th Jun, 09 06:06am
this is very informative post. i am also trying to get more page rank for my blog. i think now i will do this easy. Thanking you.
Buy backlink
- 13th Jun, 09 04:06am
This is a great post and have kept it in my bookmarks. Will continue to read it as i’m very new to a lot of the points you mention!
Thanks though, i’m glad some people share good stuff like this!
Car Reviews
- 15th Jun, 09 12:06am
i had tried getting backlinks from wiki and got few links from it several months back. but recently haven’t tried with it and yea blog commenting is easiest and best way to gain quick backlinks
backlinks
- 23rd Jun, 09 06:06pm
nice post of links even if simple
Satinder
- 24th Jun, 09 11:06pm
Excuse Me, I have read here ( http://llll.com/domains/leaving-good-blog-comments/) that most comments are NOFOLLOW —- “95%+ of blogs out there, is nofollow. This means no link juice will flow from blog comments. If you think spamming my blog is going to increase you’re pagerank, you’re sadly mistaken. ”
WHAT do you have to SAY on this ?