If you’re ok with “gray” tactics to build your blog, you may like these suggestions. These are merely half-serious suggestions, so please do your own due diligence first. Let’s think “outside the box”.
- Fake your comments – No one wants to be the first to comment on anything, but they don’t mind joining in. You can always fake it, by submitting fake comments yourself or by hiring others to do it. Fortune 500 companies do this too, they call it “content seeding” and every major site has done this to some extent before they go live, so as not to look empty to new visitors.
- Use visual stimulation – Use pictures that appeal to emotions, for example pictures of sexy women, cute toddlers or even cute puppies, depending on your market. Don’t pretend like you’ve never seen this happen on someone else’s blog before. You probably commented on that post too, right? Find a reason to put that picture into your post or else this won’t work. Use as often as required.
- Comment bashing – A software like Instant Blog Links will get you a list of blogs where you can post your comments. Then, either post really negative comments or post a link to your blog that bashes the original post. You’ll get a lot of angry people dying to comment on your blog.
- Re-light the fire – Do you know some topics never run out of comments? Are men smarter than women? Are dogs better than cats? Are blondes better than brunettes? Are Macs better than PCs? Some topics just have no conclusions, and that means you can get an infinite amount of comments and be no closer to a resolution for the topic itself.
- Write something stupid – Break the rules, and do something contrary to what people expect from you. Go silly on your posts and you can wake up the next morning to a few comments at least.
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Submit Comments on Do-Follow Blogs Only with InstantBlogLinks
I understand perfectly that everyone has their own collection of favourite blogs, and that you may already be commenting regularly on them. But if those blogs are imposing a “no-follow” rule on your comments, it tells search engine spiders not to pass on Pagerank to your site.
This is ok if you just want to participate and build a brand name, but if you’re looking at it from a pure SEO perspective your time is better spent commenting on blogs with a “do-follow” rule on comments.
And since not all blogs have this feature, you’re going to waste a lot of time finding ones that do.
Instant Blog Links is a new tool that promises to allow you to get all of the benefits blogs provide by taking advantage of other people’s blogs in your market.
It works in 3 steps:
In other words, this tool transforms a job that would have taken hundreds of tedious hours and allows you to get it done quickly and easily! Not to mention, overtime, the amount of incoming links pouring into your site grows by leaps and bounds.
I have no doubt that some people are going to use this tool to do evil, but I prefer to look at it as an SEO tool that partly automates what I’d probably end up doing the hard way. After all, what Instant Blog Links does is to do the research and create a list of places you can comment and participate in. The rest is up to you.
Whether or not your comments get approved depends on how relevant your comment is, and it’s this relevancy that will set you apart from spammers.
If you want to participate ad comment on blogs that will return the favor in terms of SEO, I recommend you try Instant Blog Links. It retails for $97 with an 8-weeks no-questions asked money back guarantee, so you can always give this a try risk-free.