One thing I see mentioned a lot , and get asked about a lot, (probably because I had one of the first tools around to find blogs to comment on when I released Comment Hut ) is how do I do blog comments and why?

So I thought rather than keep on answering questions on forums – even my favorite forum WPG – I would do some videos, in this post I have included the video where I Talk about the why, what to look for and the where to find them. I also mention signing up a different email for each site and then setting up an account at gravatar, I will do another video on this but it really is pretty simple.

I hope you find the video useful, please do post your comments and questions below.

I talk in the video about link diversity and I truly think that the most important things in link building now are

  • Link Diversity
  • Link Value
  • Link Velocity
  • Anchor Text Variety

Some of the things I use:-
Social Bookmarking (for link variety)
imautoamtor
Social Adr

Guest posts (good link value)
Postrunner from the Keyword Academy
http://guestr.com I am just starting to look at this one
http://myblogguest.com/ another one I have heard good things on

I will be doing another post on guest blog posting, I am going to try and get Luke Moulton from Guestr to give me some insights and ideas to share

Blog Networks (good link value)
Build My Rank – they give you 10 free links so try them out

There are other blog networks, I have been in some terrible ones with 1k sites that are a week old and all get the same post at the same time, and I keep on looking for new ones to test out. The best ones are very expensive and are kept pretty secret so they do not get over exposed.

What I will do is make a guest post and then put that url into imautomator, I also collect them and then make a rss feed of them and submit that feed. There is no point making a guest post if Google don’t find it so i try and do my bit to push them.

I also use http://animoto.com/ to make videos which i then upload to you tube, viddler and just starting with vimeo. Youtube is for the traffic and the links, viddler or vimeo are used for when I want to embed the video on my sites as they seem to be better quality. This is really more about giving some variety to your site than about the links in my opinion.

Blog Comments
Less is more, better in my opinion to have 50 good ones done that will build your cred and reputation than to have 1k spun trash ones.

Balance
I think you need to look for balance in your link profile, I also don’t go looking for a million links at once, crappy links from profiles on sites that are going to break because they get spammed so much hold no attraction to me.

Where to read good info
People ask me where I find info and who do i listen to, I rarely (read never) look at any IM forums for anything to do with seo, I tend to read the stuff on

http://www.seomoz.org/

http://www.distilled.net/blog/ (their recent webinar on ecommerce seo was superb)

http://www.paddymoogan.com/

and I am starting to read a lot more from the guys at http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk, their podcasts are fun and I found this one to be superb (and not just coz the guy is baldish, with a beard and glasses , like me)
http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/2011/11/22/interview-with-jim-sterne-podcast-episode-146/

Ok what was going to be a short video post has turned into a lot more.. Please do leave a comment below..and look out for more posts from me coming soon..