Leave A Comment Gain A Keyword Rich Link
After reading Lynn Terry’s post on some Cool WordPress Plugins For Comments, I decided to install a “dofollow” plugin on this blog as well as the KeywordLuv plugin.
This means that you can now get a very nice link from this site with keyword rich anchor text (I explained anchor text links here).
Why am I doing this (after all, I just got through telling you not to bleed page rank)? Simple – I want to encourage you to leave more comments and get some good discussions going in the comments sections of the blog posts. And I don’t mind sharing some link love and page rank in return 
How Does It Work?
It is very simple to set up keyword rich anchor text with this new plugin. So far when you’ve been posting, you’ve probably entered your name (i.e. Lynn Terry) followed by a link to your website (i.e. http://www.clicknewz.com) in the name and website fields in the comment section. Often people will create a variation of their name that will also include one of their main keywords (i.e. Lynn@Clicknewz.com or Lynn@Internet Marketing Blog) to get their keyword in the anchor text of the comment link.
With this new plugin, you can leave a comment and get a link back with just the anchor text you want. To do so simple enter name@keyword in the name field. Here’s an example:
Susanne@Affiliate Marketing Blog – this would end up looking in the comments section like this
Susanne Affiliate Marketing Blog
instead of
Remember the format is your name , the @ symbol, and then your main keyword or keypharse.
By the way you can of course change both your name (with the keyword) and the link around with each comment you leave. In fact, I would recommend it. You want to build plenty of deep links to various posts and articles on your website and of course each of those will target their own keyword.
How To Use This To Your Best Advantage
Before we go into the rules of commenting (no worries, they are simple), I’d like to mention how you can best use this to your advantage (and make me happy at the same time).
If you haven’t already done so, sign up for my blog notifications. There’s a signup box in the upper right hand corner of the blog. Every time I make a new blog post, you will receive an email with the title and a brief introduction to the post.
When you see a post that interests you, click through to the blog, read it and then feel free to leave a comment and add to the discussion. Ask a question, make a suggestion or share what’s working for you. Just keep it related to the topic of the post.
Then pick a page on your own website, grab the link and add it to the website box in the comment section. Then enter your name, followed by the @ symbol and then followed by the main keyword for the page you are linking to and hit submit.
Rinse and repeat and before you know it you will have quite a few new links pointing to various page of your website, all of which will help improve your rankings for your keywords.
Sadly this is probably going to attract some people who will try to take the lazy way out and game the system by adding various forms of comment spam to this blog. I have some pretty good software in place to weed those out and am also going to enforce the rules below. Don’t let them scare you though. If you don’t try to game the system, your comments are always welcome.
The Rules
It’s pretty simple … Leave a good, valuable comment and I’ll be glad to send you some link love.
Don’t
- Spam
- Link to a questionable website
- Copy someone else’s comment to circumvent having to write your own.
- Don’t just write a rather useless little sentence like “This is really cool”, “Love the post” etc.
Just put some thought into your comments. Read the post before you comment and contribute to the conversation.
If you don’t, I’ll mark your comment as spam which will result in every other comment you make on this blog to land in the spam folder where I’ll likely never see it again.
P.S. Another great way to gain keyword rich links from other blogs is to become a guest blogger. You can write these one at a time or really crank it up with a blog tour. I am reviewing and testing Nicole Dean’s Blog Tour Guide and will have a full review for you in a day or two. So far I can tell you I’m really liking it and am already seeing some fantastic results.
You may also like to read:
- Keyword Strategy – A Keyword Research Crash Course in 90 Minutes
- Anchor Text Link Explained
- Google Adwords Keyword Tool Review
- Back Link Building – 3 Simple Ways To Get Started
- Deep Link Ratio – Some Quick Thoughts On Using Deep Linking To Improve Rankings
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Thanks for the info Susanne. This plugin is really neat, the only thing is that you have to clarified how to use it at his best, like you did. I will check on every blog I comment if the name@keyword sintaxis is allowed.