Blog commenting

[echo1]

When commenting on blogs and the only link you can have is your author name (Ex. Commented by Mike), what are you gonna have, a name, the name of your company or the keyword that you are trying to rank for?

Thanks!

[AdamThompson]

It depends on the blog. General good manners dictate that you use your name or company name, but some blogs don't mind if you use your keywords. Read the blog's comment policy and/or look at the other approved comments to see if it's OK to use your keywords.

If in doubt, use your name or company name. Many bloggers don't appreciate keyword comments - they look less authentic and more spammy.

[SimonCullum]

Exactly. A great answer from Adam.

Stick to the Blog rules/commenting policy, otherwise you could find that your comment is removed by the blog moderator.

[echo1]

Thanks Adam!

[AlanMosley]

Search engines can tell if a link is in the commments. They will treat it as it should be treated as spam. You are wasting your time. These ae not the links that search engines are looking for when ranking your site.

[A_Q]

I second that. Blog commenting is a waste of good time. You could do something else, using half the time yet achieving good results.

My tip for link building is always to create something that people will want to link to. Sounds like a teachers pet answer but I'm not writing this for Matt Cutts. It just really makes sense - and it's scalable.

[echo1]

I disagree. I don't think blog commenting is a waste of time as long as your comment brings value to that blog.  It is not the fact that you are commenting but the quality of it. If the link is on a authoritative site and you have something valuable to say, I think it will pass some good link juice and will not be seen as spam by search engines. Of course, this should not be used a a link building technique by itself.

[AlanMosley]

Matt Cutts states that Google discounts them, it does not say there is any exceptions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKHFQ5JBpI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL8E8E1B5EF584C448

I would asume that all the rerady made comment plug ins would be know to google and will be discounted, but home made comment systems may work, if they are not no-follow

But I woul;d say you are wasting your time