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One thing I have realized is that search engine optimizers tend to make a lot of blog comments on industry blogs or simply providing their point of view pertaining to an entry of interest on the blog. I will start commenting more to see if the links have any value even if a majority have the link condoms around them. There’s got to be some relevance to the links provided through your name, even if has the link condom because you are literally building hundreds upon hundreds of links from solid blogs.

A traffic driver for websites is that when you manage to be the first commented on a new article use produce trickle in traffic depending on the popularity of the blogs themselves. It is certainly worth a shot because there’s nothing to lose in the process only to gain a lot of links in return that is still being recognized by Yahoo and MSN if nothing else.

When commenting on a blog, of course always write something good pertaining to the blog entry. However, some idiot blog owners will always think it is spam regardless of what you write because there’s a lot of paranoia among blog administrators due to Google’s proliferation of “no follow tag” ignorance among new webmasters who are clueless to the world wide web and take Google’s every word as the gospel. No you will not turn into a toad if you give out a back link to someone who comments on your blog, instead they should be reward with a link back because their comments are creating user generated content for your blog or website.

Getting back to the experiment, I am aiming to increase more website traffic, gain more link popularity within the search engines, and increase visibility of the web site among industry thought leaders. Further progress will be posted on this entry as time progresses with the blog commenting experiment.

Day two: I have set up all the top blogs according to Feedburner subscribers, and each day I will scan the headlines to see if there anything of interest written on those blogs that I can contribute something substantial to the conversation. No, there’s no way I can make one hundred intelligent comments in a day. Remember the point of this experiment is to get links and traffic from these popular blogs regardless if they have no follow tags turned on because only unmoderated blogs keep the no follow feature enabled.

Day three: Did not necessarily have the highest amount of impressions compared to the day before. However, the website did have the a very high eCPM earning higher than all previous days. I am not certain if the traffic driven to the websites are less tech savvy thus have less ad blindness and will click on advertisments that entertain their thought processes.

Day four: Traffic continues to trickle in through the blogs as seen through the web site referral logs. The direct traffic is measurable at being a handful. Will continue with the blog commenting madness for a month to see good results. In the SEO business, it normally takes anywhere from two months to three months to have any kind of improvement on search engine position metrics. Got to remember, there’s no quick and easy way to build natural visitor traffic. It takes work and patience is key.

Day five: Although some blogs have high Feedburner readers, they do not allow you to leave a website link connected to your name. As I go through the large number of blogs, they are simply deleted from the news reader because I am otherwise wasting time on them where I can be contributing relevant comment content to entries that link back even if it has a link condom. One big site that I will not bother with is Engadget, their setup to link bad is non existent and stingy in terms of rewarding commentary providers.

Day six: Weekend and a lot less traffic to the websites. In terms of back links, Yahoo search engine is seeing a lot of links pointing to this domain. Hopefully, it will provide for additional authority in the Yahoo engine and start to bring in long tail search traffic.

Day twenty: Following this plan, I manage to switch over to blogs that followed. Why not try to drive traffic at the same time pick up some pagerank in return for all the creative comments being left on multiple blogs. The traffic is mostly in a trickle-in effect and minimal. It is directly from the other webmaster who own the other blogs where the comments exist.

Day thirty and more: The blog commenting experiment is over. I left comments on various do-follow blogs. While these new entries do not have pagerank as of yet. One can expect the pagerank being assigned at a later date. The process has certainly raised the Technorati score by a bit, at which point raises SEOMOZ’s pagestrength score. What I really got out of it more is seeing the various blogs that are more fun to read and participate on than SEO and tech blogs. Even if it doesn’t work, I know in certainty that the task of the blog commenting for SEO experiment is over and I will continue to leave comments on other blogs for the sake of reading an intriguing article.