Get PR4 and higher backlinks with ease (well, kinda)…
This one is easy and oh, so sweet… But, if you use the following advice, please DO NOT COMMENT SPAM! Take a minute on each blog you comment on and READ IT, you could even subscribe to their RSS feed to really show appreciation (do it via email so they can see you subscribed).
We all know that having links coming into your blog from pages that have a high Google PageRank will help you to achieve better search engine results. This article will help you gain those all important backlinks.
Find blogs with a high Google PageRank
First, download this PageRank viewer plugin for firefox: Http://pizzaseo.com/firefox-pagerank. It will show you the PageRank of any site you are currently viewing. More on this in a sec. If you use I.E. do a search for “Page Rank plugin Internet Explorer” and you’ll find something similar.
Now, do a Google search of the following term:
“your target keywords” “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments”
So, if your blog was about Blogging Tips, you would enter:
“Blogging Tips” “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments”
If your blog was about personal finance you might enter:
“finance advice” “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments”
You will then find lots of relevant blogs that allow commenting. Remember; the links that point to your blog should be coming from relevant sites to really give them SEO value.
Also, keep your eyes peeled for .edu blogs with high PageRanks - those are worth GOLD!
Of course if you find a PR6 or higher site that allows commenting and they don’t have the nofollow attribute it would be beneficial to have a backlink on that site no matter what the content.
Start clicking on the search results. On each page you will see their PageRank in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Pretty much any blog that has any rating (1-9) is beneficial to have a comment on, but you need to make sure they aren’t applying the “nofollow” attribute to the comments, otherwise your comment and backlink are worthless (worthless for SEO, they may still bring you traffic and it’s always beneficial for any blogger to leave/receive good comments).
Nofollow or not?
Go to a comment and copy the name of the person who left the comment (tip: highlight the name with your mouse, then hit “Ctrl+C” to copy). Next click on “View” in your browser, and then “Page Source” (or hit “Ctrl+U”) to see the actual HTML of the page. Then, on the screen that opened with the source click on “Edit”, then “Find in this page”. At the bottom of the screen “Find” with a little text box appears. Paste the name you copied (hit “Ctrl+V” to paste) in that box and firefox will automatically find that text.
Now if you see something that looks like this you should leave a comment on the page: “<a href”http://www.acmerockets.com” target=”_blank”>THE NAME YOU COPIED</a>
If you see: “<a href”http://www.acmerockets.com” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>THE NAME YOU COPIED</a>” Then move on - unless you’ve found a good blog, then you may want to read it!
That’s it, you should be able to find plenty of great blogs with good page ranks to comment on. This will be GREAT for your search engine results and will undoubtedly bring you some traffic too!
But remember…
DON’T COMMENT SPAM! Leave relevant and insightful comments - NEVER “good blog” or similar… If you leave lame comments its more likely the nice person who allowed you to place a comment on their highly ranked blog, without the nofollow attribute, will be to add the nofollow. Plus good comments will also attract people to check out your blog, so the better the comments, the more likely it is people will take the time to come see your blog!
One sure fire way to get at least one backlink on a PR7 site is to put up a profile on http://www.squidoo.com, plus you can generate some good traffic from them (And just FYI - I’m not getting a thing to promote them - I just think it’s a valuable resource to help you promote yourself!).
If anyone has any other good tips on how to get great backlinks please leave ‘em in a comment and share them with your fellow bloggers!!! Thanks!
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51 responses so far ↓
1 Josh // Mar 6, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I like it. I think I might spend the day trying it out.
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2 Daily Tech Impressions // Mar 6, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I heard about squidoo, I might give it a try.
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3 Lloyd Lopez // Mar 7, 2008 at 8:56 am
Nice tip! I might try squidoo for my blog this weekend.
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4 Ron // Mar 7, 2008 at 10:22 am
Very nice tips, I’ll give it a try and see what happens.
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5 TYPELiFE // Mar 7, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Definitely a great tip, I like using HubPages along with Squidoo, they work great together.
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6 Tom Bates // Mar 8, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Guys I am getting tired of the SEO “Stuff” anybody want to take over? I work day and night and have for 4 solid months. Iam tired but need someone I can trust. The guy I have now seems to be taking a nap or???
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7 Tamahome No Miko // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:00 am
Awesome! thanks so much for this very informative post, I’ll subscribe to your feed ^_^ arigatou gozaimasu ^_^
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8 Richard // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Great Post! I just reached PR3 and wasn’t sure where to go from there. Now I know a new avenue to try to increase my rank.
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9 bill // Mar 13, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Hey thanks for the tips! I will start using these right away!
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10 Internet home work Ideas // Mar 18, 2008 at 4:01 am
Any tips to get good backlinks is beneficial. These tips are great even though time consuming.
Thankyou. Barb.
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11 Alexey // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:38 pm
A good idea to make software websites and publish to software archives. My friend got pr 3-4 with it after first update.
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12 Toronto Trade show displays // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Nice post! Thanks for sharing!
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13 Monkeygames.ws // Mar 23, 2008 at 7:32 am
Your website is a great
thanks alot
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14 John Metcalfe // Mar 26, 2008 at 4:09 am
Great tips mate thanks!
Put them to work on;
http://www.eatoutindurham.com
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15 needa // Mar 28, 2008 at 7:38 am
nice tips
thanks
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16 yeni oyunar // Apr 1, 2008 at 2:07 pm
thanks alot
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17 Jason Bridgewater // Apr 4, 2008 at 6:47 am
Thanks. It’s good to learn more about Blog and Forum etticate
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18 Internet Marketing Joy // Apr 18, 2008 at 10:09 am
I’m also gonna try this technique..^^ this sounds very beneficial..^^ anyways thanks for sharing..^^
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19 kim // Apr 24, 2008 at 12:02 am
I am not sure that i follow. I am new to all of this. Why do i need to download a Pagerank viewer?
Why can’t i just do the” Your target keywords” “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments”, won’t it still work the same? I will give it a go though and see what happens.
http://www.emo4myspace.com
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Ty Hurd reply on April 24, 2008:
Kim,
You want to download the pagerank (PR) viewer so you can see what the PR is of the blog your commenting on. You could do it with out the PR viewer, but then it’s just a shot in the dark. Remember, a backlink on a page with a high PR is worth many links on pages with no PR.
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20 Joy W. // Apr 30, 2008 at 7:21 am
Hi, I started to think of this idea(backlinking) myself. I am kind of new to this, but was trying to “crack” open some secret code. I stumbled upon a page called wordsdeals and purchased some words(as backlinks), then started thinking…hummm..maybe this is a really good idea. So I surfed with the words “Great backlinks” ( I never even heard the term backlink before a few weeks ago) I found this site and now I am going to get into it. Who knows, it may work! -Joy
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21 Trucking News // May 5, 2008 at 11:49 pm
This is pretty nice idea. Some of them I have already tried and some haven’t .I am looking forward to try it soon.
Just Recently I dropped my PR value so maybe this will be beneficial.
Thanks
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22 Customer Care Rep // May 8, 2008 at 4:32 am
Your right., if your blog has a lot of good comments you can attract more visitors to read your blog because you know already that the blog is good or not. Like your blog 22 who commented your blog and I’m one of them. When i read your blog, I see that it’s really interesting and informative. Good again!
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23 Here // May 11, 2008 at 9:11 pm
thatnks for the tip
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24 Toronto Condos // May 13, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Blog commenting has been filtered in the latest Google update. Google will filter too many too fast comments.
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Ty Hurd reply on May 13, 2008:
Interesting to hear. I wouldn’t suggest blasting out tons of comments every day either way - pace yourself. This was one of the tactics I used and my PR went from 0 to 4 in the last update. I actually had the 0 PR within 3-4 weeks of launching this blog (and a PR of 0 is different than a N/A PR), using this method (among others).
I’m curious where you get your info regarding the update? Not that I don’t believe you, but Google’s so tight lipped about their algorithms I’d love to learn a reliable place to get info on them…
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Toronto Condos reply on May 13, 2008:
To keep yourself updated about google, you should suscribe to Matt Cutts blog
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Tom reply on July 3, 2008:
Matt Cutts is not Google… his word isn’t gold. If Google really did this they would be punishing “breaking stories”. You can learn more from the other side of the fence: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/
25 wiliam // May 17, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Love the one about edu blogs. I have done that myself.
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26 Lara // May 19, 2008 at 11:35 am
Wow! This is a very helpful information for a new blogger like me. I’m trying hard tofigure out how to get a high PR. I’m glad I found this site. I will follow your tips, I hope this will work for me. Thanks a lot!
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27 A+ SEO Services // May 22, 2008 at 5:03 am
“your target keywords” “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments” , this is excellent formula! Thank you for sharing this.
One question: I have created a lens in squidoo one month ago, but google hasn’t indexed my article. Any idea why is that?
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28 FREE Computer Help // Jun 9, 2008 at 4:57 pm
looks like yor easy way to get backlinks gave you lots of comment on this page
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29 electronics // Jun 9, 2008 at 10:07 pm
educational article on creating backlinks. really helpfull
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30 computer components // Jun 11, 2008 at 2:22 pm
while its a nice tip and see a lot of webmasters are utilizing this trick, its unfortunate to see massive amount of comment spam. i had to turn on moderation on my blog for this
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Ty Hurd reply on June 11, 2008:
I agree, it’s sad when they comment spam you. I didn’t post this idea with the intent of people spam commenting. As it’s stated in the top of the post, I don’t endorse SPAM… If you use this trick responsibly it can be very handy and can also result in gaining readers and contacts if you leave relevant, thoughtful comments.
So to anyone out there that plans on commenting SPAMMING - DON’T BE AN ASS AND LEAVE SPAMMY COMMENTS!!!!!!
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31 SEO Company India // Jun 16, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Very informative and I am using this comment posting i will be helpful to me. But according to me comment posting is very time consuming, this is true that it provide good link. Is there any other technique like comment posting which is less time consuming and beneficial too?
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32 Emo // Jun 22, 2008 at 8:19 am
You don’t need that SEO plugin, all you need is the Google Toolbar to tell you the page rank.
Or actually I’d also recommend getting ’search status’ it displays the Alexa ranking of websites as well.
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33 free traffic // Jul 2, 2008 at 12:24 pm
excellent tips, i will be sure to try these out.
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34 Increase your PageRank | TysBlog.com // Jul 2, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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35 Louis Liem // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:08 pm
You can also install the Alexa Sparky Firefox plugin to easily spot nofollow links. Non-followed links are highlited red so you won’t need to look at the source
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Ty Hurd reply on July 2, 2008:
Great tip! Thanks Louis!
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36 Tom // Jul 3, 2008 at 7:02 am
Louis that plugin is great, thank you. Ty the only issue I see with your strategy is that most blog comments pages have no page rank, even if the post or homepage has a high PR.
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37 Gotham // Jul 15, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Interesting your own blog doesn’t do the removal of the no follow link… Does that mean we shouldn’t be commenting on your website?
But, good blog by the way.
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Ty Hurd reply on July 15, 2008:
I had the nofollow removed for a while but for some reason I get HAMMERED with spam - the akismet plugin has caught over 3k spam and I’ve only been using it around 2 months (better than a captcha as it allows trackbacks). I seem to get less spam now that I’m nofollow but I’ll likely add a plugin for the frequent commentators so they get a little link love…
I checked out your site - nicely done! I stumbled ya (and I was surprised that I discovered your port and that it hadn’t been stumbled before)
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38 Bobby // Jul 16, 2008 at 1:30 am
Thank you for this very informative post. This is very helpful for beginners like me. Thank you so much, I’m glad I found your site. I will subscribe to your feed.
More power!
Bobby
http://make-homemade-fragrances.blogspot.com/
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39 Willy Lim - Financially Free Advisor // Jul 22, 2008 at 9:05 pm
This is a great post! I’m actually at the stage of trying to increase my PR and finding ways to add backlinks to my website. Thanks for the tip!
Willy Lim
The Financially Free Advisor
InterNETwork Marketing in Asia
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40 Website Design Company // Jul 23, 2008 at 7:09 am
Nice info. Regarding Squidoo, I tried it but it’s almost a fortnight and am yet to see some traffic from there. Don’t know what went wrong with my “lens” (that’s what a profile is called on Squidoo).
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41 Dali Burgado // Jul 23, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hey Ty,
Great tips here. I surely appreciate you!
P.S.
Guys I met Ty on Twitter. Gotta love it.
Dali Burgado
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42 kovilen // Jul 23, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Thanx for the tips, dude!! Sure they will help me raise my PR
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43 Vallerie // Jul 24, 2008 at 7:55 am
Thank you very much for the useful tips, i’ll try them on the spot :”>
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44 Lauren // Aug 8, 2008 at 4:51 pm
This is a great idea, but a cautionary note: Bloggers who use web analytics software will be able to see this search query attached to your IP. Most blog software attaches an IP to comments. If I saw someone arrive and leave a comment for this type of query, I’d assume they were soft spamming.
If you don’t want to seem like a spammer, better to copy/paste the website address into a new tab than to click on it directly from Google.
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