Does posting on blogs with anchored backlinks do you any good?

[thealika]

My current strategy:  I am ranking for keyword and site: Immigration Consultant

I access the Fresh Web Explorer and search my keyword, then find the blogposts with High Authority where I can post using HTML and include my link in my signature, or sometimes the post has a link associated with the username.

Now my question is this, does this count? will google even crawl the comments? can I aid the crawling process somehow?

Any advice on creating relavent back-links is much appreciated.

Thank you 
Nikita

[WhoWuddaThunk]

I'm a little confused.  Are you guest blogging or leaving comments on a blog?

[AubbiefromAubenRealty]

If you are leaving comments on these blogs with your web address, I would think that the answer would be " Possible but not in the way that you think"

Most bloggers have code in their html that tell the Google spiders to " not follow"  the links in their comments section. They do this in a attempt to keep spammers from stuffing their comment section with links when they are not actually bringing value to the discussion. So, you will not get boost in the SERPs due to link juice.

But do not lose hope. If you are an active part in the blogging community and you give good advice and bring relevant comments. People will in inadvertently check you out and your website. Sometimes they will even approach you to solve a solution. I was told some good advice here one time " Never join an online community for the link juice. Join it because you enjoy it and you want to be apart of the community."

If you are guest blogging, this may be a different case...

Hope this was helpful,

C

[MoosaHemani]

I think you are talking about adding a comment with a keyword in the name section and your desired page in the URL section...

As far as Google is concern, according to the latest information Google does crawl comments so it is good to add relevant and valuable comments and 1 out of 10 comment can be anchored but do not over do it or else you will find this technique will started to work against you!

[thealika]

Thanks: To clarify I am only Leaving comments not a Guest Blogger.

[thealika]

Sorry, could you help me with what you mean by working against me?

I ussually sign off like this:
Nikita - Immigration Lawyer

with the link in my targeted keyword - I change the Keyword as often as I can but use "immigration consultant" about 40-50% of the time, and rarely I have only the link as in

http://www.migrationlawyers.co.za <<

[thealika]

Thank you for your reply,

I left links to my site in Wikipedia on my targeted keyword (all with good quality info) and they wiki states the fact that the links are NoFollow. - At the same time I heard that even no follow links give you credit as to the "Domain" authority.

Also: I can only join a few forums that I can helpfully contribute to: will having 100's of links from one domain harm me in any way?  I mean I would reply to posts with my link in my signature.

[MoosaHemani]

against you simply means that too many links from the blog comment give hint to Google that you are building low quality links which might take you to the area where Google penguin take websites in consideration ... and you know the rest!

[thealika]

So, How many is too many?

[whiteboardanimator]

I am also slightly lost with acceptable blog commenting etc.

I often see the users profile on blog site, acts as a link back to the original website

e.g. User: Toldham

[whiteboardanimator]

Or sometimes, it seems that people also sneak in a link into these blog comments as a footer almost.

e.g............................

[thealika]

I know, Right?

I just want to know how much effect it makes

The NOfollow probably does not do much.

[whiteboardanimator]

I think you are right, if you can manage to get yourself a few links, they are all no follow from sites such as this, but they will definitely help to improve the trust factor of you site... i think lol

User: Toldham

[whiteboardanimator]

how did you manage to get that link live in there?

[WhoWuddaThunk]

Sounds like we need to do a crowd source test!  Someone get a domain, and let's start hitting it with blog comments to see what happens!

[thealika]

You may want to correct your link from:

User: Toldham

to

User: Toldham

You have a clear Anchor text.
So it looks like this:  
User: Toldham

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Ideally you would put your desired keyword in the Anchor... sosomething like:
i5 Digital - SEO Marketing Service in Hertfordshire

i5 Digital - SEO Marketing Service in Hertfordshire

[whiteboardanimator]

That is great, many many thanks!!!

i5 Digital - SEO Service in Hertfordshire

[whiteboardanimator]

Click on me

[KeriMorgret]

Just an FYI, all the links in Q&A are also nofollow.

[thealika]

Thank you, Im pretty aware of that, and this gives as great practice grounds to discover and learn about SEO.

This is what is so great about this Forum, you can have armatures and pros all in one place!

As we are still on this topic, Keri, you wouldn't happen to know if NoFollow links are at all valued by search engines, or are they just as good as plain text?