If you have been attempting to gain better back links for your blog or website you may have learned one of the best and easiest ways is leaving comments on blogs with similar niches.
What many don’t know is that many blogs have a code inside of the source code called a “no follow code”. Basically the site has a no follow tag and a back link will not be developed for your site. This is the standard code for most blogs. The webmaster has to remove this code snippet or information in order for you to gain a back link for your blog.
Google, Yahoo and Bing all originated the no follow tag codes. Their intentions were good. The no follow eliminates spam from being created for a lot of website and blog owners. However, times are changing and many blogs are becoming do follow; they will create back links for your blog. If the blog owner does determine your comment is spam in anyway, they will delete the link as well as your post and you will not receive a back link.
Blog commenting is a great strategy for developing back links, but is very time consuming. Manually doing all of this work will not guarantee your hard work will pay off. You want to leave informative comments so you will need to read the blog. Leaving informative, detailed comments is a way to add to the likelihood of your comment not being deleted as spam.
Don’t consider using a back tracking software to leave hundreds of comments for you. This will definitely thwart your efforts because the search engines look for and flag these little buggers and will penalize your blog for using them. Some sites have been banned from the search engines for using them. Don’t go this direction for attempting to build back links.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that you shouldn’t leave comments on blogs. Most blogs will even notify you that if you follow, they will follow.
A better strategy is selecting blogs that you feel your readers would gain a benefit from and adding an honest comment with a link to your blog. Whether these blogs are do follow or no follow should not affect whether you leave a comment.
Leave comments on do follow and no follow blogs. Search engines are looking for blogs that have all do follow links and may suspect your site of attempting to “cheat” the search engines in error and penalize you in error. Naturally flowing, no blog or site will have all do follow or all no follow links. They will have a little of both.
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