…I’ll try to keep this brief and to the point, but it may not end up that way?
As an aspiring internet marketer my mind is always racing! Ideas come and go; sometimes I get the opportunity to jot down notes, and other times the ideas are lost forever. The creation of this website is one of the many ideas that I conjured-up and I simply jotted down: “BacklinksForSEO.Com“ Thus, the Genesis of this website. Some of you might wonder why the “www” prefix is not there? The answer is that I didn’t really think it relevant, but I’ve been considering making the necessary database changes to implement it… We’ll see? Anyhow.
The initial idea for this site, like the four or five other websites that I experiment with are just that. Experimental. This one is primarily for building backlinks. Aside from that they help me learn. I won’t elaborate on the plethora of things that I do “learn”, but to explore that topic in relevance to this website, I’m going to share a little bit of what I have learned so far — primarily one subject: SEO Practices, and the hit-and-miss SEO that I am seeing.
Make Your Comments Matter!
Now this does not speak for every single person who visits this website and leaves a comment, but it does apply to more than half of the visitors. What I have observed, correct me if I’m wrong, is that the majority of you simply come to this site and leave a comment with that being the sole purpose. I dub it “hit and miss SEO“. Kind of like shooting in the dark. In many instances some of you leave a comment on several posts or pages, and some of you leave a comment on every single page and post! Hey, I don’t mind. And I don’t blame you for wanting to acquire the “do-follow” text link to your website — even if this website has no page rank ? But there is one thing that perplexes me about those of you who do this. Less than one month ago I wrote about the importance of building backlinks that look natural. If you haven’t read it yet, please do so now BEFORE you invest your time commenting on several, or every single page and post on this site for the purpose of building backlinks. In the aforementioned article I elaborated on the fact that it is essential to link to several pages of your website, as well as internal pages. Yet, for 90% of those of you who make several comments at this site to get your text link, you manage to use the same keyword that is directed to the same URL… I’m to criticizing anyone, but I do wish to emphasize that this Hit and Miss SEO is probably doing you more harm than good. It doesn’t look natural to search engines and God only knows whether or not the bots even credit a site for backlinks of this nature? If your going to invest the time to write the comment to get the backlink, why not take the little bit of effort needed to write a unique comment each time, and make those links to various pages? Okay then.
I just wish to humbly share that I really am not some big SEO or internet guru. I am still learning just like many of you are. I don’t get rich with the ads on this site. They are there simply for the purpose of hopefully generating some income that will balance and allow my monetary investments for hosting and the such wash in the end. Quite frankly this site consumes a lot of my time for comment moderation when I could be reading or writing something. But that’s neither here nor there.
Why are you here?
I’m here to share what I’ve learned, and to learn from what I share. I’m here to act as a custodian of your backlinks and to guard them from the SPAMMERS who have nothing better to do than plague this site with comments that have 40-50 links to porn sites! I mean, come on! Does this method have ANY effective results? I don’t think this even qualifies for hit and miss SEO???? If any visitor to this site even remotely glances to the sidebar on the left and sees the glaring red text in the “Comment Policy” box, it should serve as a warning that your wasting your time placing links in the body of the comment! Especially porn!! Not to be rude, but I don’t even read the context of the comment or where the link leads. If there’s a link in the comment body it gets deleted as soon as I see the link. Trust me when I say that many, many comments have been sent to the trash bin simply because of this. Again, this Hit-and-Miss SEO is a waste of what I consider to be valuable time.
Why not make your time and comments matter?
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… defiantly misread the ‘and’ in the title as an ‘or’ and that confused me for a good while. I take your point that people need to vary their anchor text, and link to deep pages, but for me who reads and comments on your blog socially it’s not with my time to even mess with that stuff for a comment link that debatably passes almost no link juice. While it is important for people to keep deep linking and anchor varying in mind when building links it’s almost as important for them to keep in mind that they shouldn’t worry TOO much about how they link, but rather focus on getting as many links as they can.
–Justin
@Justin:
Certainly can’t argue with you on that one, but I was just trying to get the point across that links need to be natural, as well as to and from various sources.
Lot’s of links! :-)
Yes, sometimes I wonder too why spammers even bother. My personal blog attracts lots of them too. But then I realize these spammers just use automated softwares to leave their messages. So, even if a small percentage of them sticks, they would have achieved their aim, I guess.
@ Audrey. I also agree with you. Some spammers use automated software to leave their messages while others do intend to spam a blog/site which in fact this is so-called black hat method in SEO. And yes, even a small percentage of them sticks, they would have achieved their aim but then eventually their site gets penalized.
And don’t forget that the small percentage that sticks are usually on new or PR 0 sites, so the backlinks they create do not have any benefit to their own sites. They are in fact, just wasting their time, effort and money on using the software in the first place.
What goes around comes around.
Yours Truly
Philip
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First off let me say “What a great idea for a site and an excellent post”
Now here is the relevant part. Your use of the term “Hit and Miss SEO” is a polite way of saying SPAM and I totally agree with you. The number of spam comments I have had on my blogs (not the one I have linked back to here by the way) has been unbelievable, so now, any spam comment gets its URL added to the Blacklist Box in the Discussions section of my WordPress Settings. I also add in any sex related words and have now developed a long Blacklist. By copying this list into all of my blogs I get maybe 2 or 3 spam comments per week instead of the hundreds I used to get.
Automated commenting is the bain of all bloggers and the only way of stopping them is to block them using a good anti spam plugin or to build a Blacklist. (Building a Blacklist is Free – HeHeHe)
Just like you I am forever climbing the learning curve of Internet Marketing and one thing I have learned is that Google likes Relevancy. In other words comments should be relevant to the post or article you are commenting about plus, your comment should add something to the conversation. In other words “Make Your Comments Matter!”.
If other Bloggers are anything like me, comments that are not relevant to the post are not approved and the commenter is therefore wasting his or her time and effort.
My time, by the way, is how long it takes me to click on the “Empty Spam” button in my WordPress Dashboard, so no time at all.
Many thanks for a well written article. Please keep up the good work.
Yours Truly
Philip
hit and run seo is just a waste of time and money if you are doing it for your own websites or blogs.You are right you got to make your coments on the subject not just some random spinned comment so it may be aproved and you obtain a backlink