Blog comments good for SEO

[DenverKelly]

Does anyone use/recommend the use of anchor text links in blog comments (on sites relevant to your sites market)?

Thanks,

Mark

[KeriMorgret]

I can tell you that the impact from some high-quality blogs will be to delete your comment if you're using your keywords as your name. There was recently an entire post on this at http://ariherzog.com/and-blog-comment-spam-continues/

[DenverKelly]

Thanks for the case study. I wonder how much of the impact was the fact that zillions of posts showed up in 3 days, probably with unnatural anchor text (the same, over and over). Would the impact be the same if one manually entered comments on various relevant sites with varied anchor text?

[DenverKelly]

What about non-anchor text links?

[EGOL]

Read here about anchor text links....

http://trafficplanet.com/topic/2369-case-study-negative-seo-results/

[EGOL]

I agree with Matt.  A few weeks ago I would have consider these to be "low value".... Today, I consider them to be both "low value" and "dangerous".

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Mark - I don't use blog comments to build links and I wouldn't really recommend this as a way of building links with specific anchor text. The reason for this is that if you can do this then there are likely to be lots of others that are using it for manipulative practice. Your website might be full of great content, but there is a high chance others that have linked from this site aren't so great. Then when Google comes to look at the website that is linking to these bad/spam sites it is likely to either put no weight on the links or even start penalizing the sites that are linked to this site for manipulative linking building practice against the Google Webmaster Guidelines, your site will then most likely be hit as well.