Do You Comment? – It's spam says google

Pleanty of people i know are engaged in commenting on other blogs irrespective of dofollow or nofollow, But now if you comment excessively you may face a ban hammer. As explained on official webmaster central blog,

It has probably happened to you: you’re reading articles or watching videos on the web, and you come across some unrelated, gibberish comments. You may wonder what this is all about. Some webmasters abuse other sites by exploiting their comment fields, posting tons of links that point back to the poster’s site in an attempt to boost their site’s ranking. Others might tweak this approach a bit by posting a generic comment (like “Nice site!”) with a commercial user name linking to their site.

Why is it bad?

FACT: Abusing comment fields of innocent sites is a bad and risky way of getting links to your site. If you choose to do so, you are tarnishing other people’s hard work and lowering the quality of the web, transforming a potentially good resource of additional information into a list of nonsense keywords.

FACT: Comment spammers are often trying to improve their site’s organic search ranking by creating dubious inbound links to their site. Google has an understanding of the link graph of the web, and has algorithmic ways of discovering those alterations and tackling them. At best, a link spammer might spend hours doing spammy linkdrops which would count for little or nothing because Google is pretty good at devaluing these types of links. Think of all the more productive things one could do with that time and energy that would provide much more value for one’s site in the long run.

Now a lot of webmaster communities are raising a question

What if I am a legit comment maker, I love engaging in the blog communities & i do add value to the content!

Well Google is yet to answer this question. So lets wait & watch!

In the mean time you may a nice article on how to make authentic comments by Harsh

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-you-should-comment-on-other-blogs.html

How to Drive Huge website traffic from linkedin?

Linked-in one of my personal favorite networks, A place where professionals meetup. It actually can help getting lot of traffic… Here are some quick 50 tips on linkedin traffic…. This is a do follow blog & Your comments are appreciated….

1. Check the Expertise Requests option in your profile.
2. Complete your profile as thoroughly as possible, and include interests, an avatar, and business information.
3. Connect with as many business associates as you can, since they will help you to network with like minded individuals and companies.
4. Learn from others and gain new knowledge, so you can become an expert in other subjects and topics.
5. Ask questions.
6. Answer questions. Use your knowledge to your advantage by answering peoples’ questions thoroughly and expertly, and you’ll gain other users’ confidence.
7. Check your home page on LinkedIn fairly often. It contains industry updates, news, and postings from associates.
8. On company profiles, the top five most popular other profiles are displayed on the home page. This is important since it will show others who you associate with, so be aware of who your top five are.
9. Choose the top 5 who will link back to you, so there is a reciprocal benefit.
10. Be sure to explain your work experience in as much detail as possible. Don’t just list employers or experience, but instead expand upon it by showing others’ what you’ve done in detail.
11. Comment in the discussion forums as much as you can so your profile gets noticed.
12. Update your status with useful content and information as much as possible.
13. Feel free to implement keywords in both your profile and your content, so that your information comes up in search engine results.
14. Do not forget to include your LinkedIn profile link in other places like Twitter, Digg, and other social media websites.
15. LinkedIn is also a useful employment tool, so if you’re hiring, use it to find good employees.
16. Customize your buttons. This will make your profile look more professional and give you more control.
17. Include your skills and specialties and be sure to expand upon your current business.
18. Obviously, include your company URL somewhere on your profile.
19. Have a plan in place when you begin to build your network, otherwise you may end up getting some contacts you don’t want, and not enough of the ones you do.
20. Do not just be friends with people because they ask you to. It looks a little odd for a professional member to be friend with their partying buddies from college. Leave the casual online friendships to Facebook.
21. Look at network statistics to see what is going on with your account and the progress you’re making.
22. Keep in mind the number of characters in profile fields are limited, so you may want to do a few practice runs first before publishing everything.
23. Include past education and past companies/experience, not just your current business or company.
24. Customize your public profile’s URL so it’s easier to link this to other pages and people will remember it much better.
25. Utilize the reference check tool to find out how long someone worked for a company and much more.
26. Ask others within the community for advice. Since this site was designed for networking, people are usually more than willing to answer questions and give help.
27. Use the site to help get a much clearer picture of your competition.
28. Compliment others and give them praise when you’re speaking to them, so that they reciprocate. It makes both of your profiles look much better and can increase your exposure and ratings.
29. Do not only mention what you’ve done, but include what you’ve produced. Be sure to post results from your actions and include facts and figures if possible.
30. Use numbers, and show people percentages and actual, real numbers that back up the claims of your success.
31. The top of your summary is what visitors see first so be certain you’re including the most vital information here.
32. Utilize the answers tool as an opportunity to show off you expertise.
33. If you’re in need of a graphic designer, web hosting provider, or any other service, LinkedIn has its own services area where you can trade off with others who are among the trusted network.
34. Use your LinkedIn page link in your blogs, Twitter, Digg, your website, etc.
35. Try to become a recommended service or company by establishing a good reputation. People will flock more towards ones that have the “recommended” status.
36. Be sure to enable the “show website” feature in your profile.
37. Make sure the full view and websites options are also checked so that the information in your profile is public.
38. LinkedIn is mostly designed for targeted marketing, so be as specific as you can when you choose your industry and expertise.
39. Use the website as a tool to make connections within your business niche, and then expand upon those connections on other social media sites.
40. Be willing to work at building your network; it takes time to get a lot of solid connections.
41. Make use of the option to be indexed so your information appears on Google and other search engines’ results.
42. Use the Q&A feature to ask others their opinion of your website, product, etc.
43. Feel free to introduce yourself to other members. Don’t always wait for others to approach you first.
44. Ask others to recommend you if they have had experience with you.
45. Think of LinkedIn as your “home base” for all of your other marketing tactics.
46. Edit your profile often and rearrange things as needed, so you are always up to date and new content is there as well.
47. Use the groups feature to meet others, post feedback, and get a feel for what other companies are up to.
48. Start your network base with people you know and trust, and build from there.
49. Be as professional as possible at all times.
50. Always be aware of spelling and grammar.

Targeted visitors & Backlinks from forums

Forums are the easiest places from where you can get Highly Targeted Website Visitors, The point is you need to do it properly. Forums are the easiest places from where you can actually build links that bring in Huge amount of visitors. Infact there exists some huge SEO Companies, Who literally rely upon forums to build their links, Because they know the strategies that will bring in highly targeted forum readers.

Okay now for those who do not understand what is a forum?

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site. It originated as the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content.People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic may form from the discussions.

Now The process involves Finding the Right Forums, Content Strategies for the forums, Link Posting Strategies & Building Forum Relations.

Before we start the process, You need to understand that Forums are the places where people regularly meet, help & discuss their common intrest, People love spending their time over there, So if you spam over there, People will just hate you & your sites/blogs. Imagine you hang out daily at your favorite coffee shop with your friends & an Insurance Agent starts disturbing you every day? Asking you to buy insurance policies, What would you do? You feel like beating him up right? Same applies to forums. Almost all the quality forums are highly moderated to keep the spammers out, So if your goal is to spam those forums, Please avoid doing that, This will actually affect your business & website reputation.

Now lets start the procedure,

1. Searching the right forums:

The most important step is to search for right forums, There are multiple ways to do this. remember you need to make a list of forums along with their alexa ranks. Most forums display how many members do they have, Take those numbers also in to consideration. Remember the 80/20 rule, 20% of the forums will bring 80% of the traffic, but since we also get benefits from SEO stand point. We will list all of them.

1.  Google Groups Search : The method works like this, Go to the search page, put in your target keywords, (more…)