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Blog commenting – does this really work in 2020? In today’s blogging, we can see that many blogs don’t at all accept comments and many others had disabled website URL option. In that situation, what is the benefit of blog commenting in 2020? Let’s find out in this detailed Blog Commenting guide.

Whatever your purpose with Blog commenting is, be it SEO or getting traffic, I will add some tips to write quality comments to get the maximum out of it. So make sure to read this detailed guide before you start writing a comment on your competitor’s blog.

blog commenting guide
Beginners Guide To Blog Commenting in 2020

What Is Blog Commenting?

As the term itself is self-explanatory, I don’t think I have to narrate much. In a nutshell, it’s about writing some text on a blog after reading it to express your feedback or suggestion or feeling about that write-up.

dofollow commentluv blogs
how to do blog commenting for traffic

This is the ideal definition of blog commenting. But the practice of blog commenting is more popular for building backlinks for SEO. Yes, in most of the blogs you will find an option to provide your website URL with the comment and that’s why blog commenting has become very popular.

But with time, people started to exploit this blog commenting system and put irrelevant or meaningless comments or very generic statements just to put their website link on that website content. Mostly to get a dofollow backlink from high DA websites.

But in 2020, majority of the blog commenting backlinks are nofollow. You need to find out the list of blogs where you can write your comment and get dofollow backlinks. I have mentioned the same in this article as well. If you are looking for the list of blog commenting sites for SEO then check out these CommentLUV enabled blogs.

Here is an interesting video from Matt Cutts of Google.

5 Benefits of Blog Commenting in SEO

By now I am sure you have already started to realize the benefits of blog commenting. Yes, there are multiple benefits of blog commenting and here are a few of them.

  • You can communicate with the blog author or blog owner by writing and appreciating his/her work. In fact, this is the ultimate way to encourage the writer by sharing some amazing feedback about the piece of content.
  • You can engage in a healthy discussion by writing a good comment. If you can ask a question or raise a point that will add some value to the topic then you will find many other people will also show interest in reading the comment and get engaged with you.
  • Blog commenting is a very good way to bring referral traffic to your blog. As I said, if you can write a good comment then many readers of that post will find it interesting and definitely will want to explore more about you. And many of them might visit your website when you mention the URL while commenting.
  • Last but definitely not the least, blog commenting plays a very important role in link building. Even if they provide nofollow backlinks, but it is very essential to balance the ratio of dofollow vs nofollow and to keep the link profile natural.

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How To Find Blog Commenting Opportunities?

There are multiple ways to find blogs to write comments. But below 2 steps will help you to find out blogs to connect with good bloggers in your niche and also blogs to write comments to get dofollow backlinks.

First of all, visit the website https://dropmylink.com. Complete the signup process and create your account. The screen will be like below.

how to find dofollow blogs

This way you can also find out many quality blogs on different niches like health blog commenting sites, education blog commenting sites list, tech blog sites, real estate blog commenting site list, etc. Just make sure you spend some time to find out the blog quality and the relevancy of the topic with your target link.

You can search Google with different footprints or shortcuts to find out blog commenting sites in your niche. Make sure to find in your niche only, as relevancy plays big in building backlink in 2020. Here are a few footprints:

  • “Notify me of follow-up comments?” “Submit the word you see below:”
  • “Blog Comments Powered by Disqus”
  • “Leave a new comment”
  • “Comment on the Post”
  • “Enter your comment:”
  • “Comments on this entry:”
  • “Sign in to comment on this entry.”
  • “Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)”
  • “Login or register to post comments”
  • “Login or register to post or rate comments”
  • site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment”
  • site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment”
  • site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” –“comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “keyword”
  • site:.edu “no comments” +blogroll -”posting closed” -”you must be logged in” -”comments are closed”
  • site:.gov “no comments” +blogroll -”posting closed” -”you must be logged in” -”comments are closed”
  • inurl:(edu|gov) “no comments” +blogroll -”posting closed” -”you must be logged in” -”comments are closed”
  • site:.edu inurl:blog “comment” -”you must be logged in” -”posting closed” -”comment closed”
  • site:.edu  says” “leave a reply”
  • “Leave a Reply” Name “(required)”‘ ‘Mail (will not be published) “(required)”‘ “Website”
  • “You must be registered and logged in to leave comments.”
  • “Sign in to Comment On this Entry”
  • ”if you have a website, link to it here” “post a new comment”
  • “By submitting a comment here you grant this site a perpetual license to”
  • “add comment” keyword / “add * comment”
  • “post comment” keyword / “post * comment”
  • keyword “leave a comment” / “leave * comment”
  • keyword “no comments”
  • Keywords “top commenter”
  • Keywords “Notify me of follow-up comments”
  • Keywords “You can use these tags”
  • “This site uses KeywordLuv ”
  • Top commenter Keyword(s)
  • Top commenters Keyword(s)
  • Top commentators Keyword(s)
  • Keyword(s) “Recent Comments”
  • keyword “notify me of follow-up comments”

This is the best way to find tons of backlink opportunities. You can use premium tools like SEMrush, Ahrefs etc, to find out the list of backlinks of your competitor websites.

If you don’t want to spend money, then you can use the Ubersuggest tool and find out the backlinks of your competitor. When you analyze them, just find out the comment backlinks or from which websites your competitor got a backlink (dofollow or nofollow) and you can also write a good comment to get it approved.

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7 Blog Commenting Best Practices To Follow in 2020 [Tips & Tricks]

Here are a few tips to write quality blog comments in 2020, that you must adhere to. Otherwise, your comment will not get approve and you will not get all the benefits of blog commenting that we have discussed so far in this article.

1. Comment on similar niche blogs only

The first point is very obvious. Comment only on similar niche blogs. E.g. I am running this blog to share WordPress guide, blogging tips related articles. So, there are tons of blogs on this niche, so it’s not a big deal for me to find similar niche blogs to write a comment. Even if you want to write a comment on a high DA blog on other niches, try to find out a similar article and then write a comment.

2. Don’t comment without reading the post

Many people just write 1 or 2 lines of comments without even reading the article. It may be good for those websites where you actually comment to get backlink and comments get approved instantly. But for a quality blog, you just can’t do that. Personally, I never approve a comment with just a “Thank you” in that with a few words on my blog.

3. Use your real picture while commenting (Gravatar)

The biggest problem of this online world is that there are many fake profiles and activities going on these days. So, no one will approve a comment from a totally unknown person who can’t be identified by even his/her profile picture. So, if you want to write a quality comment to get some value make sure to put your real-picture and create a Gravatar account. As the majority of WordPress blogs support Gavator to show users’ pictures.

4. Look for different types of blog commenting systems

There are different types of blog commenting systems. By default as a WordPress blog owner, you may be aware of one. But there are actually multiple types of blog commenting systems that are in place.

  • Jetpack Comment
  • Disqus
  • Livefyre
  • Intense Debate
  • Facebook Commenting system

Many people try to add links while writing a comment thinking that they will get some extra benefits (keyword anchor) by putting such tricks. But the risk here is that such comments will automatically get detected by the comment system and will never get approved. Just put your blog URL or post URL on the website place and write the comment, that’s enough.

6. Try to write the first comment of that post

This one I read on the GotchSEO blog and found very interesting. After that, I saw many bloggers are actually following this trick to write the very first blog comment as soon as a new article gets published on their competitors’ blog.

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7. Don’t just write a comment, try to add value

Although this is my last blog commenting tip, I know after reading the article till this part you got it already. Just by writing a few lines of generic words will not help you to get your blog comment get approved in the high authority blogs. You have to write quality comments while adding something extra.

FAQs: Things You Must Know Before Starting Blog Commenting

Spamming is the biggest reason behind this. As anyone can create thousands of backlinks through spam blog commenting quickly, so the value of such backlink has gone down. In fact, if you do it wrong, it may negatively impact your website SEO & rankings.

There is no such rule. But just make it under control. If you post 1000+ comments in 1 day, I am sure you will compromise the quality and end up with spamming everywhere.

Try to find out high-authority blogs in your niche and write a quality blog comment on their articles to build a relationship. Building networks is the new SEO technique in 2020 and you have to put enough efforts into that.

I have read many event blogging case studies where I read that such blog comments helped them to boost the website ranking for a short period of time. And if your target is to get the ranking for the event only, this might work. But I don’t rely on such methods. Rather I believe in creating different types of backlinks with control to make it natural.

Blog Commenting SEO: To Comment or Not to Comment?

So, blog commenting is really good if you are doing it to build a relationship with another blogger. For that, you have to put some extra effort to write a good quality comment, keep track to monitor all the new posts so that you can comment first.

On the other way, if you are using blog commenting dofollow backlinks, then you need to understand that it is a risky path. Such blog commenting will definitely work in short term and give better rankings. But in the long run, you have to face the consequence if you don’t know how to deal with such link building process. As, through updates like Panda and Penguin, Google made it clear that these irrelevant comment backlinks were useless.

So as a beginner don’t follow what others are doing blindly. Start writing good quality blog comments on your competitors’ website to get noticed, build a network first. By the time learn different other aspects of SEO and how things work. Feel free to write a comment below to share your doubts, questions or any feedback about this article about blog commenting.

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34 Comments

  1. Great article Santanu, I do believe comments should be made after reading the article that’s how it makes an impact.
    Thanks for sharing 🙂

    1. You are 100% correct dear. 🙂

  2. This is very good post here. Thanks for taking the time to post such precious information. Quality content is what always gets the visitors coming. thanks Santanu sir..

    1. You are welcome Kailash. Importance of content will always be the first criteria to attract readers as people are online to read something good & useful.

  3. Hello Santanu,
    You explain great for blog commenting. I think it is very helpful for beginners. Thank you very much for sharing awesome information. Keep updated list.

    1. You are most welcome. Keep visiting my blog for more useful updates.

  4. Hello Santanu,
    You explain very nice blog commenting tricks. I think its very helpful for beginners. Thanks for sharing awesome list.

    1. You are most welcome to my blog and thanks for finding my efforts useful.

  5. You explain such a great. I think when we create website first of all search of URL structure whenever it is correct or not. Although thanks or sharing amazing information.

    1. Thanks for finding this useful. 🙂

  6. Hi Santanu,

    This post is amazing. 🙂 This post is not only for beginner but everyone should read this article. You have well presented all the points with specific details.

    Blog commenting is very essential thing for every blogger. Your tricks are very interesting and useful for everyone.

    ~Swapnil Kharche

    1. Thanks Swapnil for your valuable comment here. Blog commenting is a very good way to promote your blog as well as knowledge of discussion.

  7. Hey,
    This information will help especially for beginners also professionals.
    Thank you for sharing. You are doing an amazing job.

  8. Santanu, I came across your site 2nd time in the last 1 week. You are doing a great job by writing great content related to a very hard competitive niche. To be honest when someone sees that big sites are ranking on SEO related topics and a person still writing so much quality content on a same topic and helping bloggers like me!

    Highly appreciated:)

  9. hey santanu, you explained very well from finding blogs to commenting and implementing.

    yes blog commenting is great way to connect with the admins of blogs. blog commenting helps to build backlinks and drive referral traffic.

    me also doing commenting on most blogs and getting referral traffic.
    thank you for this post santanu. keep up this awesome work.

  10. Blog commenting should not only be done for the benefit of links. It is an awesome way to feel part of a community. Blogging can be such a lonely place and forming these connections means it can be that little bit less lonely.

    1. You are absolutely right. Blog commenting is a great way to start connecting with like-minded people.

  11. Hi Santanu,
    You did very good writing about blog commenting. I hope many will read your advice.
    It seems many do not realize that only dropping a meaningless comment does more harm than good.
    I like also that you mentioned the gravatar. How can we take bloggers with funny pictures or none at all serious?
    I think too it is important to have a real picture, also on social media. It is difficult to find the right one while sharing and tagging in social media, especially any Indian names are similar and difficult to find the right one.
    You also mentioned comment LUV, when I started blogging many groups only accepted bloggers and comments with this plugin. They said we want to see who is commenting and what the blog is about and also often reciprocate, in the same niche or not. There may be also the content of another niche interesting sometimes.
    Especially newbies should take your advice about blog commenting seriously not only because of SEO and link building but also not forget that we interact not only with a blog but with the human being behind it. Dropping meaningless comments is a waste of time.
    Thank you for your great work
    Erika

  12. Same here, I am also deleting many spam comments daily as people don’t have time to spend a few minutes to write a comment. But they are not accepting that, even their few seconds of effort is going in vain as nobody is actually approving such blog comments.

  13. Hey SANTANU DEBNATH ,

    Excellent post with great blog commenting guide. I really like your post and especially the tips that you have included for doing blog commenting. Doing blog commenting is one of an effective way to generate backlinks and connections, whereas blog commenting provide us an opportunity to connected with other great people, bloggers by sharing our ideas, knowledge and opinions. It also provide us severl benefits and generate more traffic to blogs.

    Your 7 blog commenting best practices that you have included are also great. It is really essential to read a whole post before commenting on it. Using real picture while doing comments is also crucial for comment approval. Using different types of blog commenting system will be helpful. Avoid including the links while commenting is really a good idea. Adding value to the comments and writing quality comments is really crucial and necessary, whereas writing quality comments increases it value and allows to get the blog comments approved. Your all the suggested tips are effective but i truly like an idea of
    reading the post before commenting, using real picture, avoiding the link insertion and writing quality comments.

    Really helpful post and thanks for sharing.

  14. Many bloggers/link builders do blog commenting just for the sake of earning backlinks and write nonsense comments. They didn’t know that the best way to acquire quality links is through building relationships/networks. Every blogger should read this blog! Especially those beginners, this is the perfect guide for them! Anyway, this is really a great read! I’ve learned a lot! Thanks, Santanu!

  15. best article about SEO till now i have ever read. This give me valuable information

    1. Thanks for finding this topic useful. Yes, some blogs may receive a slight boost in search traffic due to the comments section. But you’ll need a good amount of high-quality, keyword-rich comments.

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