Tech Lover 9

If your link building campaign for SEO has the strategy of – leaving comments on relevant blog posts to get inbound links, then you are harming your SEO !

Novice bloggers usually do this mistake of faulty backlinks acquisition strategy and labelled as spam mass by search engines, resulting in lower SERP rankings and waste of earlier SEO efforts.

Why Comments on Other Blog Posts don’t Help SEO ?

1. By default, majority of CMS have NoFollow attribute for comments on the posts. So, you will not receive any link juice from these backlinks.

2. Excessive backlinks in the form of leaving comments on other blog posts in a short span of time, usually penalized by Google for spam mass, following by derating by search engines.

What Should be Your Strategy for SEO ?

Comments on other blog posts usually leads to better inter-personal relationship between bloggers. Which is a great thing for success in blogging arena. But, your sole intention should not be the backlinks acquisition while commenting or, you should not use it as an SEO strategy for your blog.

For PR point of view, you should indulge in relevant comments on relevant blog posts in moderation.