Kevin W. Phelps

Disclaimer: This article reflects my opinion, not actual SEO practices or Search Engine processes.

For those who may not know, when you go to somebody’s blog, you are usually able to leave a comment at the bottom. This comment space is used to add to the conversation and give your two cents of knowledge. Unfortunately, these comments can be abused by inserting your anchor text in the “Name” field and posting a generic, useless comment rather than taking the time to read the post and give an honest response.

Example of Comment Spam:

Example of a Quality Comment:

I am not against going to a blog, leaving an honest comment with my name and linking it to my website. I believe that is appropriate and should not looked down upon. I do not agree with going to other peoples blogs, leaving a worthless comment just so you can obtain a link from 1000′s of blogs in a relatively short amount of time.

I just hope Google and the other search engines can differentiate between the two when they place value on these links. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s WebSpam Team has openly come out saying that they are looking to fight comment spam and other spammy links. You can even send Google a link spam report or report somebody for paid links.

If you are looking for affordable link building techniques, do not hire a company to leave blog comments. They are worthless and will get flagged by most content management systems, as you can see from my comment spam list.

The ironic part of this is, some of these comments are from SEO businesses. You’d think they’d know better. Maybe I should send them this article, but then again, they’d probably try to post a link promoting Viagra or other online pills.