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- Thanks for your comment, Gail and thanks for stopping by.
- Building a reputation is a good strategy indeed. I must admit I don’t get all that much spam, despite using Commentluv. I just like the fact that the tool is so efficient when it comes to linking back to my posts, etc.
- It’s only a pleasure, Joshua.
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I’ve never read any worthy SEO expert saying that a hyphen is a good thing in domain names.
As a matter of fact, many spammer are very fond of this technique, so I would stay away from it.
I don’t see a whole lot of top-ranking websites with hyphens in them.
Keyword-rich, no hyphen would be my domain of choice.
Ana
- If we are talking about commentators that come back, read my articles, share them, I absolutely don’t mind them changing their keywords - I completely understand the need for link building.
However, when I get someone I’ve never heard of, posting 5-10 comments per day with varying anchor text, I don’t care who they are, I won’t approve their comments.
Does it take an extra step? You bet. Is it worth it with my regulars? Absolutely!
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- Google Says: Your Blog Has Low-Quality Content And Here Is How to Fix It
Well, that’s why the both measurements: the amount of links and traffic have to be considered to determine the quality of a page.If you are not getting any clicks with Tweet Old Post, then it still is a candidate for RIP or relocation.
By the way, one of my readers stumbled upon an outdated post via that plugin a few days ago - it was a tip that worked at the time, but the site since then fixed the bug, and my post is not longer pertinent. So even if it gets clicks, the info itself is outdated.
I will definitely check out your ReplyMe post, Justin; thanks for the link.
Ana
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No, Chris, they are definitely not spilling the beans.
If they ever do, I’ll keep you updated.
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Just use the redirection plugin I mentioned, Katie - that should take care of any problems. - Google Says: Your Blog Has Low-Quality Content And Here Is How to Fix It
You are quite right, Justin. Nothing worse than outdated info. - Google Says: Your Blog Has Low-Quality Content And Here Is How to Fix It
Exactly! You have learned a lot since you first started and you could now implement that knowledge to capitalize on those old posts. All the best!
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I love CommentLuv for the single reason that it encourages people to become simply engaged. To communicate and share ideas beyond the “oh, great post!” thing. Useful to share tips on how to use this feature at its optimum potential. Thanks!
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It’s only a pleasure, Joshua.
I still remain skeptical of whether going to such lengths to manipulate out keywords is really all that beneficial. I tend to think that it is better to simply comments, and build a reputation rather than links.
I tried CommentLuv for a while but ultimately turned it off because I got tired of all the spammy comments it attracted, and those keywords instead of names really annoyed me.
I’m taking a wild guess also that Google has by now taken notice and compensated to keywords preceded by an @ symbol, though I could be wrong.
When I am commenting on ComLuv blogs I don’t even bother to choose the post it links to either.
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Building a reputation is a good strategy indeed. I must admit I don’t get all that much spam, despite using Commentluv. I just like the fact that the tool is so efficient when it comes to linking back to my posts, etc.
Hi Ana,
Great to see that you are benefiting from Kristi’s excellent Blog Promotion Guide. Your screen captures make this strategy much easier to understand and implement than when I wrote about how I used a very similar strategy of blog commenting and then sharing to greatly increase my blog traffic.
I wrote that post over a year ago, but it has some excellent stats on how much doing this can increase blog traffic.
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I think in SEO deep links are very useful to get the high ranking of the site.
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Absolutely! It is a very powerful tool.
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Awesome tip, Ana. I deep link on occasion (mostly on non-commentluv blogs), but hadn’t done a lot of deep linking with commentluv yet. I’ll have to give this a shot.
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You must - it’s an excellent tool!
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Ana,
I will try this out on your blog first. Thank you for the always very useful information.
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It’s my pleasure, Justin.
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Thanks, Ana.
It continues to amaze me just how powerful this plugin is, and how little I seem to know about it!
I’ve used this little trick to bring people directly to my About Page, which I felt was more appropriate than the home page, but I never thought about directly linking to one of my posts.
Thanks for this strategy! I’ll be using it… now!
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Try link it to the posts - you will get better results right away.
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Nice tips from you. I appreciate you kind consideration to share this article to us. This trick is very useful. Thank you!
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Nice one Ana.
I honestly thought this tip spoke for itself but obviously not.
Great that you shared it so that it IS obvious now.
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It certainly is
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Excellent tip Ana, I too have been doing this for years. I usually use my about post in the URL field. On my last blog, my about page jumped from a PR0-3 on one pass, the consensus among a few was because of this practice.
Warning: Ana is correct about most bloggers not caring. Do not abuse it by linking to sales pages, affiliate pages, and the like. They will start to care.
Deep link to normal posts and all will be happy.
Btw, Lynn Terry of ClickNewz.com wrote an excellent post sometime back entitled, Stop Linking To Your Homepage!
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You are right, it was because of that. Thanks for another great comment.
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Hi Ana,
I noticed that feature before but didn’t know what it was for. It seems like a great way to link to inner pages. Hopefully the search engines will notice and rank more pages. If you comment a lot, it would speed that process along, I think.
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Commenting a lot should help, Lou.
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One important thing that i have found about CommentLuv is that, some of bloggers change CommentLuv codes and they are NoFollow, so be careful about these cheat CommentLuv websites!
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Thanks for telling us about that, Jack!
No ones cheating Jack, Andy set the settings page so the blogger can make it either do follow or no follow…no one says it has to be do follow.
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Thanks Ana for providing detailed information about how to get backlink. During blog commenting I have noticed many comments are deleted after approval. Blog commenting is very good way to generate backlinks but it requires lot of time to find dofollow blog and getting comment approved because of spmming issue.
Yes, blog commenting is a time-consuming, yet necessary link building and networking method, James.
I am surprised to hear that some comments get deleted after approval - the only way it would ever happen on my blog is if the comment is spammy and somehow managed to pass my spam filters.
Blog Commenting is a great thing to do. But I do not expect too much results from it, because lot of blog webmasters usually remove the link in comment. Anyway your tips and tricks are simply helpful so I’d like to implement them.
That’s right, Paul. Glad you found some valuable info.
Thanks for your reply. One more thing. I would like to know your opinion about hyphens in domains. Some people think it is beneficial for SERP. Do you think it is that much beneficial? I think domain name with or without hyphens is not for a SEO purpose. It is just a business decision. As I am not so expert in SEO so I need expert’s feedback on this issue, because lot of people on our Live chat ask this question before going to purchase domain name.
Hey BOD, I’m not Ana and don’t mean to hijack your thread here, but let me ask one question:
Which is more important to you, the slim possibility that it’ll help in SERPs or a guaranteed fact that it will be extremely difficult for humans to remember your name and pass it on to others?
Skip the hyphens if at all possible.
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Yes, I agreed with you Dennis. And usually I suggest the same thing that you mentioned. But you know clients, they also browse Internet regarding to this issue where they get experts suggestion that using hyphens in domain is beneficial for SEO. Anyway, your reply is very identical and I will use it if any client ask me the similar question again. Thanks for reply
Just ask if they care anything for word-of-mouth advertising, if they say no then so be it.
Whilst it has never been factually proved that hyphens helped, I don’t think it’s proved that they hurt either, within the SE’s.
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Let me jump in here, boys.
I’ve never read any worthy SEO expert saying that a hyphen is a good thing in domain names.
As a matter of fact, many spammer are very fond of this technique, so I would stay away from it.
I don’t see a whole lot of top-ranking websites with hyphens in them.
Keyword-rich, no hyphen would be my domain of choice.
Ana
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Ana is right, while I personally have not heard of spammers love for them, I can see how they could.
Hi Ana,
This is another great tip I have learned here just now. Thanks for sharing such important info. This is great way to optimize deep or inner pages of the site.
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Thanks, Ana. I started to do this about a year ago, but quit doing it because of the latest post issue with CommentLuv. This is an interesting workaround.
I have some commenters that change it every time they post on my site. Sometimes they’ll do multiple replies to comments on the same page with different keywords. Having to approve each of these is a little frustrating. I seems like they are taking it too far. What do you think?
How often would you suggest changing your keywords on one site?
If we are talking about commentators that come back, read my articles, share them, I absolutely don’t mind them changing their keywords - I completely understand the need for link building.
However, when I get someone I’ve never heard of, posting 5-10 comments per day with varying anchor text, I don’t care who they are, I won’t approve their comments.
Does it take an extra step? You bet. Is it worth it with my regulars? Absolutely!
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Hi Ana,
I had noticed a while ago that CommentLuv needed you to tab into a different field before it would provide the link list, and that changing the URL wouldn’t automatically change the links provided. I had vaguely wondered if there was a way to utilize this glitch. You were way ahead of me! =)
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Hi Ana,
You cleared it all up for me. I love when I learn something that will save time, possible generate more opportunities to earn money. I’m sooo happy! Thanks.
Thank you for sharing these tips. I had recently discovered ‘something’ about CommentLuv put didn’t fully understand what it all meant.
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P.S.S. My site is not a blog, but I’m working on building one so this is very helpful.
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Great idea, would you say to have both links deeplinking to the same post? Because I do think that if both links deep link to the same post then google will apply the text that comes first on the page. i.e the linked text in your name will override the linked text in the comment luv deep post that comes further down the page. Feel free to correct me on this while I search for evidence to support this (i think it was seomoz)
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No, you are absolutely correct, Rohan - Google will count the first link leading to the same page on a page.
However, not sure what it has to do with this post. Did I say something that made you think about it?
Ana I think you have given great value to this topic and there are probably some networkers who are not familiar with “deep-linking” their blog posts. Great step by step instructions that anyone should be able to follow
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This is awesome. thanks. I have often wondered about doing that myself. Now I know ( just used it here!) I generally look for commentluv blogs myself. its an awesome way to get loads of traffic tomy blog.
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It definitely is. Thanks for stopping by!
I like it very much. I have been doing something different but this works well for “extra” deep linking indeed. Like Ileane, I often have the same problems with “cached response” and I noticed that if I use any other link but that of the homepage, ComLuv picks up the most recent post. Combined with this trick, it would go a long way. Thanks
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That’s a nice tip Ana. Thank you for sharing it. Will be linking back to this post, when I collect a few CommentLuv tricks & post on my blog.
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Ana, thanks for sharing this tip! I also need to use this when I get a message that says “Response cached until Fri 6 @ 20:34 GMT (Refreshes in 60 Minutes)” but it only works when you have additional URL’s on your account. This just happened to me here because I’ve been blog hopping most of the afternoon.
Andy assures us that this message will go away when he gives birth to the new version of CommentLuv
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Good to know, Ileane - thanks for the tip!
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Hi Ana
I am a fan of Commentluv and I am really excited to see what Andy are working on for the next version.
That really is a great “hack” that I will try out here on your blog right away. Yep you just told me that you don’t mind
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That’s great, Thomas - hope it works for you!
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Great tips, this has been a ‘shhh!’ type 0f feature for a long time.
When new commentluv comes around, things will be slightly different, it will be up to the blog owner to allow 10 last posts to everyone or not. (if they do, you can use deep links in the url field and still get 10 posts to choose from).
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Sounds very interesting Andy. Keep up the good work
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I was introduced to comment luv only a few days ago and I love the concept. To be frank this is how I found your blog. You left a comment on one of the blogs I frequently read and I just followed your link because of the title of your post. I have several niche blogs but I don’t do much commenting in those niches. I thought that comment luv would help increase backlinks to inner pages but you made this post before I had a chance to implement it.
Thanks I’ll give it a try and see how it goes.
Well that’s great! Thanks for stopping by.
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