Do Follow Blog Commenting, does it work?

Recently there’s been a spate of questions about doing blog commenting for backlinks, so we decided to do one measly test…

The website: ranked #8 for the term in the exact match domain, 2 word phrase

The competition: One other exact match domain (with .com TLD), several authority sites, and hardly any of these sites outranking mine have backlinks to them.

The test: Simple test here, one that should prove out with pretty good results.

Ordered 50 Pr1-Pr5 blog commenting links from a source that shall not be named here, merely because it’s not the best bang for your buck when trying to get links form blog comments on URLS with Page Rank.

It should take about 2 weeks to get this ordered filled…

Side Notes:

#1- when you see your competition is amazon, wikipedia, entepreneur.com, about.com or some other “authority sites”, you shouldn’t be discouraged from trying to outrank them, since they’re ranking for those terms without even trying, without doing any active backlinking for those particular terms.

Since link building is all about adding “votes” and relevancy to your sites, your active backlinking will soon overtake those authority sites in the rankings.

#2- Part of what we can learn about this blog commenting test is that a few quality links could do more than hundreds or thousands of backlinks (not that I’d need this many backlinks to rank the site in case study better).  Some people like to say that you should focus on getting quality backlinks versus quantity of links but the REALITY is that quality backlinking takes time, and isn’t exactly the best option for people who are trying to rank a lot of urls for a lot of different terms.

Take this case study as an example…  IF this works, and it should, are you will to spend 50 dollars for each and every term you want to rank better?

Maybe using ScrapeBox or Blog Commenting tools (Blogfinder, Commenthut, Commenting demon, Comment Kahuna etc…) would be a better option here, but in my opinion, when you want to test something SEO -related out for yourself, it’s best to use a service provider because they’ll get it done right, there’s no tools to buy and learn and use, and if it works out well, then you can consider moving forward with this part of your SEO strategy.

What’s happening with this test so far?

Once some new links started getting generated, the site got pushed back to page 2 and stopped earning money…

New backlinks to a site with zero backlinks to it previously tends to push it back in the SERPs temporarily, and same thing occurs when you push a lot of links to a site when site previously didn’t have tons of links to them (it’s why xrumer users need to be wary of what they do).

Also note that link velocity is important, and getting 50 links to a site that previously had none, but not continuing the linking means you sorta did a blast here, not a ramped-up campaign, so keep in mind that steady linking sometimes does more for solid, stable, even increased rankings than a mini-blast of 50 links in 2 weeks time would.

Current ranking: #8, right where the site was prior to this test.  Maybe it will go up, after the linking in continued, but for now, it seems worthless.  Yahoo Site Explorer only shows 7 backlinks though, none of them from blog comments.

In my opinion 50 backlinks of any kind once indexed…should have moved this site up quite a bit.  I would never do a hit-and-run linking campaign for a site that had zero backlinks to it anyways as that isn’t a good way to establish linking and ranking momentum.

Stay Tuned, I’ll do more blog commenting for this particular url once it gets more links accredited to it

UPDATE, September 4, 2010:

3 weeks after ordering, today I found 3 of the links and am now at #2, instead of #8 where I started, so we’ll see if this sticks