SEO Blogs: nobody comments and nobody links
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That’s the best part of running an “SEO Blog”. The “SEO” industry is the one place where you can write content all day and you can pretty much expect no one to comment or link. It’s not hard to understand why: most SEOs are heavily into unnatural linking patterns, and would never link to a website unless they received some advantage from it.
Some SEOs comment. I guess I should be more accurate. Some SEOs comment. It’s just that they use automated scripts to do it and their comments make no sense. One I enjoy receiving twenty times per day or more is:
i try to find something at google.com and take it on your site…thanks
Hmm. You tried to find it on Google, but instead you “took it on my site”. At least he’s thankful and polite. Unfortunately, I just don’t know how to respond to this post. I’m sure he’s trying to tell me something. Old “Xanax” and I could be friends, if only we didn’t have a communication problem.
Are SEOs the red-haired stepchildren of Internet Marketing? It appears so. With marketing forces geared towards cashing in on Web 2.0, it’s only the SEOs who are still fascinated with the anchor text tactics of yesteryear.
“Content is King” is the oldest mantra in the book, and it’s certainly true, but that doesn’t stop people from building contentless websites every day. And once built, a website like that needs links. For this reason you’ll never completely defeat the problem of backlink spam.
What do you think? Are you an “SEO”? Do you comment in blogs? Do you ever freely link to websites or is everything “quid pro quo”? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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4 Responses to “SEO Blogs: nobody comments and nobody links”
Darren, it’s you again.
I am an SEO. I’ve commented on 5 or less blogs (just started to do so). I do post on fourms, under 200 posts over 4 years which is not that much.
Yes, I certainly link to websites freely (that is how I found yours). If people are scared to link to things, they just don’t get the web.
By Gomer on May 30, 2006
Gomer,
We’re the primary two posting in this space again. It looks like you went and screwed up the “no comment” rule.
Maybe this will force some others out into the open.
By Darren McLaughlin on May 30, 2006
Keep at it. You are writing good stuff. The traffic and comments will come.
I know of some blogs that are very trafficked and still receive few comments. Most people just lurk. I have been reading blogs for many months but just left my first comment in a blog in the last week or so.
By Gomer on May 30, 2006
Thanks. I only started commenting in the last few months too. It’s a very good source of direct traffic, as well as a good way to do networking.
The one thing I love about blogs, is you don’t have to wait to get traffic. Blogsearch.google or Technorati will bring in someone new with almost every post.
That beats waiting around for “Google to Update”, which is enough to drive a person insane after awhile.
By Darren McLaughlin on May 30, 2006