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Back links and comments on blogs

Sunday 11 November 2007 @ 9:09 am

There is  a lot of chatter at the moment regarding website content, comments and backlinks.

Comments on a blog are the quickest way to build targeted, relevant and free content. Everyone knows that. And most people are blogging to attract attention of one reason or another. And yet i find a few different attitudes regarding comments on blogs.

The strategist

This blogger encourages comments by making it easy for you to post. He may have a captua screen of some kind but it’s clear, easy to navigate and works the first time. He also rewards comments by allowing a link back to your own site complete with key words. He understands that this is good practice because you’ll be back to post again and he gets the opportunity to communicate with you once again.

The Greedy Shortsighted

This blogger also allows you to comment with key words but uses a nofollow code on his site thus keeping all his page rank for himself but accepting your free targeted content. He wonders why he doesn’t have regular visitors

The  - actually I don’t know how to describe him.

This blogger uses nofollow and won’t allow key words but still wants you to build his site with free targeted comment.
It seems to me that if I want to build any kind of relationship with my readers and want them to comment regularly then it’s only fair that I reward them with  as good a back link as I can. Any page rank bleed my site experiences will surely be more than compensated with the extra attention from the SE’s.
Perhaps you feel differently or maybe you agree. Let me know.

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If you get it then let me know and I’ll tell you where to get some software for free that will tell you when a new post has been made on the blogs you find.