Dofollow Blog Comments

[Alexsmenaru]

I wanna buy dofollow comments, can be there any negative effects? I understand that is a kind of a black hat seo, but i saw many sites who used this type of service and get boosted in the search engine ranking.

[EGOL]

The most likely negative result is that Google will know that the links are paid and they will pass no value - thus wasted money.

Another potential negative result is that these links will stink up your link profile and your rankings will suffer.  Nobody knows exactly how google detects of measures this.

If you have a great site stay on the white hat path.... if the only way you can get links is by shady methods... guess you are stuck with them.

[TaitLarson]

Personally, I would avoid this strategy.  If the site selling the dofollow comments is caught by Google then Google could determine that you bought a link and penalize you.

Can you find any sites in your industry that remove the nofollow tag from comment of users who participate a lot on their blog?  I'd focus my efforts on such sites.

Not that I'd necessarily  recommend this, but you could always report your competitors to Google if they are indeed buying links.  Before you do this I'd make sure that you were playing by Google's SEO rules.

[bemcapaz]

I think it depends, those do-follow comments really give a initial boost to your sites but the vast majority of those sites the comment section is not Auto Approve and the guy who is selling you this service for sure is not going to comment on all the sites, he will use some program.

Based on that maybe you would have a much better result doing it by yourself, really comment on the blog posts, adding value to the owner of the blog and, by consequence, getting a high approval rate of your comments/links.

[SteveOllington]

You'll probably get some complaints by blog owners, and it really doesn't do a lot anymore anyway. Most of the links will be either removed fast, the ones that stay will be on blogs that aren't maintained and are therefore full of thousands of other spammy links for Ugg boots and viagra, and the rest will be on blogs that are both irrelevant and practically worthless in terms of what it will give you.

You could always just find a few decent blogs that are dofollow, give a good response and add the link yourself More likely it will stay that way.

[EGOL]

lol.... if you pay the wrong person for this service they could post stuff like...

"Visut da coolest Wigit sight un da intranet - Pruneabic Bohan is a bad mudda."

That will make you look really good if messages like that are plastered all over every blog in your niche.

Would be best to buy services like this for your competitors. lol

[SteveOllington]

You might be joking but I've seen comments like that haha

Such services are often easy to spot I think

[RyanPurkey]

If you're planning on doing this with a non-disposable, branded website it's a bad idea as there are can be lots of negative effects.

If you're planning on being black hat, having a network of disposable sites, and are going to be masking (or trying to mask) everything you do, it's just another tool in your toolbox.

Like people already mentioned here, it's better to make worthwhile comments that can be traced back to a reputable looking source as those could even have the added benefit of bringing you additional business, not just a boost in the rankings.

[SteveOllington]

That's a highly valid point. Same goes for if it's a clients site.