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There is a story told of heaven and hell being exactly alike.
There are large banquet tables set with every kind of food and desert imaginable. Everyone has a fork in their hand that can’t be removed or repositioned. The Fork is so long you can’t put it in your mouth.
The scene in hell; everyone is stabbing food and trying to somehow feed themselves with this great food stuck on the end of a very long fork.
The scene in heaven; everyone is using their fork to get food for the person across the table from them. They can use their fork to feed others but not themselves.
In heaven everyone gets fed. In hell no matter how hard they try no one gets fed.
I wrote earlier this week about the new blog experiment I was doing in our market. To make it worth while reading I threw in some things that I thought would interest other bloggers.
I also realize that some just won’t take the time to find the nugget of gold in the middle of the post. Here it is dusted off and shining bright. I didn’t want this to get lost.
Posts with Comments
I’ve noticed on the blogs I author and track that post without comments can move quickly to supplemental results and right out of the Google index. However, posts with comments tend to stay in the active index much longer and some almost indefinitely.
If you find a post you really like or just one you would like to see others read leave a comment. And I’m not talking about “Great Post” or “I love your blog”. Providing a good comment just might help a fellow blogger keep their post on the web. We all know we should write for our readers and not the search engines. The reality is if we aren’t indexed by the search engines our readers can’t find our posts.
Post with Contextual Links
The second thing I’ve noticed that helps keep post in the Google index are those containing links that are contextual to the post. It means you are giving away a link to another blog. It is often called link love because these contextual links are the best kind of back-link to get from another blog or website.
Share the link love and keep your posts in the index.
Do-Follow Plug-in
This plug-in It will disable the automatic rel="nofollow"attributes added to external links. Meaning when someone leaves a comment on your blog and they fill in their URL they will get a back-link from your blog post.
Of course we should all have control over the spam comments that come to our site. I still moderate all comments before they go live. Even with Askiment and a spam filter activated. I also have the do-follow plugin on all my blogs. I’ve not told anyone this until now but I think I’m going to start, Oh, I guess I just did.
Here is the link to find the do-follow plugin.
In the options panel of the plugin you can set the number of days for the comment before the no follow is removed. I personally like it set to zero, if someone takes the time to comment on the blog and provide their valid URL, I’m glad to provide them a link back to their site.
We can all help each other out.
- Leave comments on others blogs
- Put quality contextual links in your posts
- Activate the Do-Follow plugin on your blog
Before you know it instead of all of us going hungry, we all get fed.
In case you didn’t know it. Back-links are a major part of Google PageRank. Share the Link Love, improve your PageRank, which improves your position in the organics. To borrow a phrase from Athol Kay “You’ve Been Fed”.
I’d rather be in blogger heaven than blogger hell, how about you?
Link building is such a hot topic, however so many new bloggers give up before they ever get started. I think they underestimate the time it takes to get involved in the online community.
.-= Jacksonville Homes´s last blog ..Short Sales speed up for Jacksonville home owners =-.
Nowadays, many bloggers abuse this kind of technique just to draw backlinks to their website, this is called spamming. In giving comments to the blogs, be sure to be relevant – base your blogs according to the article. There are many black hat SEO technique but I am sure that this will not achieved a quality result. Google and other search engine have rules regarding this issue. So be careful. An excellent and relevant content gives you a quality optimization for your website.
.-= George White´s last blog ..Lewisville New Builders Homes =-.
George,
I’ve found a few trying to abuse the do follow. But trying is about all they do. With moderation turned on I see every comment before it is approved. Granted there are some trying to abuse the do follow. But in most cases, it is overtly obvious. They never make it out of moderation.
For the most part; the comments approved are those that contribute to the discussion of the topic.
Dave
Hi Dave! Good bloggers deserve link love; bad bloggers don’t. I personally want to see every ethical blogger that contributes to conversations succeed, and every spammer rot in hades. I do visit a few no-follow blogs, but the majority of the blogs I frequent are dofollow, and often when I find good articles I link to them. For example, I visit your blog from time to time, post a comment – this makes you happy, and the fresh “content” from the comment gets your post re-indexed and gives it the “staying power” you mention in this post (Yes, I’ve definitely noticed it too), and when I write another post either on my blog, Zillow, or Geek Estate about Do Follow and spreading link love, I’m going to remember this post and link back to it. It’s kind of like the whole “kindness, pass it on” thing. Let’s make the blogging world a better place!
.-= Justin Bartlett´s last blog ..The Debt Consolidation Process =-.
Your this post is very useful and popular as I can see there are already 104 comments on it. I have followed your advice and downloaded “dofollow” plugin from http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/.
Thank you for providing us useful information.
Regards,
Preston Guyton
I run a real estate blog and most people play the game properly by submitting relevant comments and I have no problem with them getting a link as long as the comments are related. Good bloggers do deserve “Link Love”as you call it. Keep up the great work.
I’ve heard the heaven and hell story several times, but never related to blog comments. It’s very appropriate. I’d never thought of the contribution a comment makes to the blog owner before. Many thanks for enlightening me. Excellent article. See you in heaven!
I love this site and I’m definitely going to come back and read more. I’ve been thinking about starting a real estate blog and what I’ve read here really seals the deal. Right now I have a little blog on a blogger website that nobody really sees or knows about and I’m going to start a new one and delete my old blog and move my posts over and start fresh. I’d like it to be like a real estate journal that I share with others about my real estate experiences, market changes and programs to help buyers and sellers. Hopefully people will like it.
Do you think it is better to have a blog in my website, or have a separate website set up specifically for blogging?
I would never have another strictly web site. I would always use a WP platform whether I blogged or not.
Dave
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