Do Blog Comments Help SEO?
Yes, they do help SEO.
I ran a test a few months ago and have't got round to blogging about it yet. And i wasn't,
but 2 things happened recently that made me change my mind…
The Test
I bought 3 .com domains with no previous history, uploaded the same amount of posts (roughly), added social profiles for all and did 3 different things.
I used Moz Domain Authority to gauge "link juice" and authority
Domain 1: Commented once a day on new blog post over 3 months, 90 - 100 comments (didnt care if it was follow or no follow) - in the end only about 50% were accepted and indexed.
Domain 2: Paid 100$ for citation services on "niche relent sites" on BHW - 100 citations/profiles and some web 2.o's.
Domain 3: Did nothing, just uploaded legible but not good enough for my money site content every 2 weeks.
Month 1
Domain 1: DA 3, no real traffic except small trickles from my comments, roughly 3 for every comment (which was nice)
Domain 2: DA 3, Bought service - took 3 weeks. No referral traffic at all, but helped me kind of rank for non competitive terms (non exact match keywords) - Positions 16 - 34
Domain 3: DA 2 nothing, odd click from being sand-boxed
Month 2
Domain 1: Jumped to DA 11, small trickles of traffic continue (only about 4 a day as old posts with comments aren't receiving that much traffic)
I start seeing organic traffic
Domain 2: Jumped to DA 12, still ranking around 12 - 22 for 3 targeted low competition (difficulty of 12 - 19 MOZ) keywords.
No referral traffic from other websites but some organic.
Domain 3: DA 3 no real traffic to speak about
Month 3 - Moz lowered most DA World wide
Domain 1: DA 12, still posting comments and more trickles (about 7 a day now)
Domain 2: DA 14, Keywords stable at 12 - 22 position
Domain 3: DA 1 dropped altogether, trickles of traffic
Month 4
Domain 1: DA13 no more comments are made, got my face (profile pic - unfortunately no link) mentioned in https://ahrefs.com/blog/black-ha... (for my comment about experiment on domain 2)
Got mentioned and linked to by another blogger (Michael Pozdev) in 1 Simple Hack to Blogger Outreach, or How to Find best link building service in Bangladesh for a comment I made on his blog and adding him on LinkedIn.
Domain 2: DA 10 (dropped 4 in DA) rankings position in high teens and twenties now (losing traction)
Domain 3: no real traffic
Conclusion
Making comments on blogs gave me better Domain Authority (some of the comments were follow but I don't think that is the only reason).
Bought citations on high DA "Niche" relevant sites only helped temporarily but not that much.
I built relationships that are already helping my website
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