4 Top Techniques for Getting Your Comments Through a Blog Moderation Process
Blog commenting is a great way for achieving good quality backlinks and improving website visibility. A good blog comment can enhance your reputation and lead to an increase in interested, targeted visitors to your website.
But with so many people abusing the commenting process with mass blog commenting software and link-seeking, unconstructive posts, blog owners have become more vigilant with comment moderation.
If you are looking to use blog commenting as a method for building strong backlinks and increasing your site’s reputation, here are some valuable techniques you can employ to ensure your blog comments pass any moderation process.
Know Your Market
Before you think about looking for suitable blogs to post on, you should already have some prior knowledge about the market you are targeting. Ideally, you will already possess some relevant information because any blogs you post on should be topically-relevant to your own website (if you want quality backlinks)
Keep up-to-date with the latest industry news and products, this will make it easier to offer quality blog comments that the blog’s owners and readers will find valuable. This will increase the chances of your posts being accepted.
Study the Blog
Don’t just write bland, flattering comments hoping that a hubristic blog owner will instantly accept them. This rarely works. These comments look like they come from mass-submitting blog spamming software (like SENuke). Comments such as, ‘Love your blog, just keeps getting better and better’, or ‘Thanks for such an informative post’ show no effort, zero insight, and will nearly always be canned by the blog owner.
Take some time to read the blog and see what it is all about. Get a feel for the blog. At the very least, read the actual post you are about to comment on. Never just read the last few comments and use them as inspiration, they might not be relevant to the post. They could be from people the blog owner knows and your comment will just appear odd and over-familiar.
Make a Great First Impression
The first comment you make on a blog should be thoughtful, interesting, and valuable. This will be the first time the blog owner and their readership have come across you. You need to let them know you know your stuff and are the sort of person who will post invaluable information in the future.
A mediocre post may be accepted and could result in a backlink (depending on site rules), but it is unlikely to attract attention from anyone else visiting the blog. People do judge on initial impressions and if you sound like you do not know what you are talking about, your future comments will hold little weight.
The comment does not need to be an academically researched essay, it just needs to be relevant and provide some new insight, or alternative information, that enhances the original post. If you prove you can provide quality content for the readers, the blog owner will readily accept your comments and will gladly allow you to post links. They may even be open to having your website link as a permanent fixture on the blog itself.
Show Some Reserve
Never place direct links in the body of your first comment on a blog. This is a surefire way to having your comment instantly deleted. You will need to earn the trust of the blog owner before you can start adding links to your comments.
Many blogs allow you to link a website URL to a posting name. While you can use this opportunity to be a bit sneaky and use your main keyword as your posting name, thereby getting an keyword-anchored backlink, this tactic can also persuade a blog owner to bin your comment.
This cheap tactic makes it seem like you are not truly interested in the blog and just want an easy backlink. The owner probably won’t even read your actual comment they will just see ‘Dog Crate Training’ as the poster and instantly hit ‘Delete Post’.
Give and Receive
If you submit quality posts that show you have not only read the actual blog, but you are also know what you are talking about and are prepared to put real effort into your comments, you will dramatically improve the chances of your comments being accepted.
You are expecting a backlink at some point from the blog and need to be ready to earn it. There are blogs that are less choosy and restrictive, but improving off-page SEO by obtaining backlinks is not a numbers game, link quality counts for everything.
If you want to see your comments posted on authoritative, respected blogs, follow the above guidelines and give the blog owners every reason to accept your comments.
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