If you have been reading my newsletter over the years or my previous blog posts, you will know that I am passionate about helping as many people as possible to grow their businesses, increase their sales and boost their profits.
Link love
That’s why I’m ALWAYS looking for new ways to give something of value to the people who follow my work – And starting now, YOU are going to be rewarded every time you leave a comment on this blog!
That’s because I am making the link from your comments on jimsmarketingblog.com, a lot more valuable to you and your website, blog or business!
Here’s how!
One of the best ways to increase your Search Engine Ranking, is to have lots of relevant links pointing to your website or blog. However, MOST links are of reduced value, from an SEO perspective. These are called ‘no-follow’ links; because they use a piece of code to make sure that search engines do NOT follow the link to your site or blog!
To show how common these ‘no-follow’ links are – I checked out 10 of the best-known marketing / social media blogs & they ALL use no-follow links!
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So, YOU take time to comment on THEIR blogs and THEY then repay you by telling Google and Co to ignore you!
Why do they do this?
Firstly, blogs offering no-follow links are of limited SEO value, so they attract less SPAM comments because spammers realise the links not of much use to them.
Secondly, many people (but not everyone), believe that by linking properly to your blog from theirs, they are ‘likely’ to actually lower their own search engine rankings.
Do follow
Starting now, when you comment on Jimsmarketingblog.com, the link it gives you will be a ‘do-follow’ link. It will tell Google and all the other search engines to follow you to your website or blog!
This means you will get a small “thank you” from me every time you comment here!
When I told some people earlier that I was about to do this, they all said the same thing:
Why? Why risk damaging your own search engine rankings and potentially attracting loads of spam – just to give these high-quality links to people?
My answer is simple.
Firstly, I’m not an Internet Marketer, so I am genuinely not that bothered about what Google does to my page rank. I prefer to use advanced marketing strategies to promote jimsmarketingblog.com; and this means putting people, community and ideas first! You see, after 22 years in professional marketing, I know that if I pump as much value into this blog as possible, people will keep coming back and they will continue to recommend it to their friends!
Secondly, I have put some pretty good anti-spam software on the blog, to catch the surge in comment spam everyone tells me I am about to receive. One side effect of this, is that your first ever comment here will not have a do-follow link. Don’t worry though – all your other comments will!
My commitment to you & your business
I really want to make this work. The only way I will remove the do-follow links, is if the quality of the comments drop because of spammers. I honestly don’t care about pissing-off Google, so long as I can keep on top of the spam. I won’t allow the comments section here to turn into spam city, otherwise it totally defeats the whole point; which is to make jimsmarketingblog.com as valuable to you and your business as I possibly can.
Your feedback please!
I would really appreciate your comments and feedback regarding what I am trying to do here. Am I crazy to even try? Please let me know, as I read and value every comment.
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Jim,
Thanks for all your wisdom in the internet marketing world. Keep fighting the good fight
Wow, Jim. I have never seen backlinks explained in such an understandable manner. Thanks for the help.