As an avid link building services provider and researcher and enthusiast, I’m always on the lookout for new sites to leave a link or two for mine and my clients website. I’m so obsessed by it that it became a habit of mine to look around any website I discovered, whether they have zero or high PR, if it’s possible for me to leave some link/s without spamming the site.
If it’s a blog, I usually test it by leaving a comment (of course after reading the blogpost, researching a few bits about the post and commenting according to the relevancy to the post) with an anchor text back to my site.
I also use search operators to find those elusive high PR backlinks, which there are plenty online, considering there is already a gazillion websites on the internet. Most of the time I am successful in finding high PR authority sites because, if you don’t know it yet – there is no more secret on the internet. If you know which keys to push on your keyboard, you’ll be surprised what you’ll find by doing online research.
But my most favorite way of finding a site to build links in is, guess what? Spam comments in several of my blogs!
If you’re new to link building, you don’t probably know that spammers are also in link building services themselves. They maybe some paid hack from India or the Philippines looking for ways to leave some links to your website. A customer would ask them to build links for them through blog commenting – problem is, most of them are lazy or do not know how to properly leave a link by decent commenting and so a blog owner would flag their comments as spam, triggering an anti-spam plugin such as Akismet to consider all comments by that poster to be red flagged. Thus, whenever Akismet encounter the posters IP or email address or even the URL which they wanted to use, would go straight to the spam database.
Each of my blog probably receives more than 100 spam each day and I’d say if you’re a typical website owner, you’ll just instantly delete all those pesky spam comments at once.
But not if you’re a dedicated link building enthusiast. For in those spam lies some gold where it’s possible to leave a link without doing the same spamming technique of the poster!
How do you find it? Well, it’s not going to be easy because you will have to scan each URL that the spammer want to leave their link into and check each one of them if its a worthy website for link building purposes. Here’s how I do it:
1) In my wordpress admin, I would go to “Comments” and then will click on “Spam”
2) All comments considered by Akismet as spam shows up in the browser window.
3) I open a new browser window, right click on a link and choose “Copy link location” (I use Firefox browser, by the way).
4) If the link is, say http://www.anywebsite.com/2435425-cls.html or http://someperson.anywebsite.com/global_warming_effects_6148_32083220.html, I would break the URL so that it would only be http://www.anywebsite.com/ and then paste it on the browser search field.
5) With Google toolbar pagerank checker on, I will then see if the website is worth researching further. I would also look around the website and see if it is a site that has any link value if ever the pagerank is zero.
6) If the newly discovered site has link value as I see it, then I will check if I can leave a link anywhere there. I’d use the search operator site:http://anywebsite.com for finding any loophole where links could be left. Of course, I just leave a link without spamming the site.
You maybe thinking that this method is spamming as well. Depending on how you leave your link or how your link was built, link building per se is a grey area. No single search engine professional could claim that their whole link building technique does not involve finding loopholes in a site to leave links in.
Only super authority sites with content a lot of people search for, like Wikipedia, could get links without asking for it because people just link back to them naturally. For most of us, we have to work hard to find that valuable backlinks.
So, there you go. Link building research using spam blog comments as link sources. If you’re a serious link builder, I suggest you take a second look at it.
