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Link Building on blogs: Keep it personal!

March 2, 2010 by Jim Connolly

Have you noticed how some of the people who comment here, do so without using their name?  The reason you are seeing this, is because they are trying to build links back to their websites or blogs, which contain anchor text, that will help their SEO.

From an SEO perspective, this can be effective, however, by commenting with a marketing phrase, which does not include their name at all, it makes the comments seem impersonal.

It’s hard for the readers or myself to build a dialogue or connect with someone in the comments, who calls himself “Cheap PC Spares!”

I like to see commenters here include their name or nickname in the anchor text they use when commenting, not just a SEO friendly phrase. Especially as this blog uses CommentLuv, which will include a contextual hyperlink back to your blog or website, every time you comment here anyway!

In future, if you want a comment published here, please include your name or even a nickname or your company name.  Feel free to include some SEO friendly words if you want to, but let the readers know there’s a real person there too.

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