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Adding Anchor Text in Blog Comments
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Hi, could someone please let me know the correct html code to get an anchor text link in a blog comment please? Thanks!
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@TomRayner Thanks a lot for the help. As someone who is new in the field of marketing,this saves a lot of time.
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Just as Jon says, it does pass on a little value - but you're time/resources would be much better off invested elsewhere if all you're looking to do via blog commenting is increase your SEO value.
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Blog commenting is a great way to be a part of a discussion and you should use this medium to promote yourself. Using keywords in the 'Name' field does not look natural and it might be treated as an attempt to game SERP. So, you should be better off if you use name rather than keywords in that specified field.
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Thanks. Does anyone still see SEO benefits from blog comment links if the link is adding value and relevant to the post being commented on? I see blog comments and forum posts recommended by Jon Cooper over at PointblankSEO - in his linkbuilding course he listed as low value but it's still on his list of link building tasks. Any views?
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Comment Spam is so 2000! What with recent updates (Penguin, anybody?) you should be careful with stuff like that and are probably gonna hurt you more than boost anything.
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Presuming they have html tags enabled, as well as <a>tags, this should work:</a>
<a></a>
<a></a>YourWordsHere
To make the link appear in a new window, add target="_blank">
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