As most of you probably know, the CommentLuv plugin is a very popular WordPress plugin. The reason is the fact that each comment provides you with 2 one-way links back to your site. One goes to the home page of your blog, the other goes to the URL where your most recent blog post resides.
The link to the blog post has the added advantage that the anchor text consists of the title of the blog post. This means that the anchor text is highly relevant to your blog, and changes with each new blog post you publish.
The link to the home page of your blog has your name as the anchor text. For some that is all they want, but for most it would be much more beneficial if the anchor text would contain the primary keyword of your blog. CommentLuv has a solution for this as well. You can submit your name followed by ‘@’ and your keyword phrase. For example, I use Karin@social bookmarking. This method significantly improves the relevancy of the one-way backlink to your blog. Continue reading One-way backlinks from CommentLuv Comments
I have written about the importance of dofollow links in the past. I stated that if you leave a comment on a blog post you have to make sure it is a dofollow blog. In other words if the nofollow tag is added to the link in your comment the link does not count for you. Lately I have been thinking more and more about my own statement. I am no longer convinced that this is an accurate statement. [...]
We just finished our 3 week profit pulling keywords series, so I hope that you have a list of profit pulling keywords for your niche. If not, you may want to go back and read the keyword articles from the past 3 weeks and create your own list. You will need it to make the most out of todays topic which is the use of tags on web 2.0 properties. Tags can give you very valuable one-way backlinks to your site. It actually gets even better than that. You can have others promote your tags without you even realizing it! [...]
Do you have a backlink strategy? I mean do you have a plan how to build up your one-way backlinks? Last week I showed you how you can spy on your competition to find out how many backlinks it takes to get to the top position in Google. Today I would like to discuss your own one-way backlink strategy with you. Now that you know how many backlinks you need, what are you going to do to get them? Here are some suggestions to get you started. [...]
Unlimited traffic to your website from comments – is your blog setup properly?
Comments can be a source of unlimited traffic to your website. On one condition. That you get one-way backlinks from that blog to yours. Sounds logical and straight forward. Or is it… [...]