Maximizing Commentluv, Keywordluv & Dofollow Plug-ins

Huge Page Rank Doesn’t Always Mean Huge Traffic

Most bloggers are simply obsessed with their page ranks. My obsession with it dwindled after I was elevated to Page Rank 2 and still saw no increase in traffic from the search engines and this obsession hit an all time low when Google suddenly decided to bring me down to PR 1 despite all my efforts to get to PR3.

Funny enough while Google was playing around with my PR, my search engine traffic never fell. As I started commenting frequently on other people’s blogs, keyword optimizing my post slugs and “SEOing” my blog’s theme, the traffic continued to rise.

So far so good I’ve come to the conclusion that quality backlinks is the key to high search engine ranking and subsequently a good surge in traffic.

Take the following with a pinch of salt. It’s only a newbie’s perspective of how backlinks and page ranks work.

From what we all know, backlinks from high PR sites give authority to our sites thereby increasing our future page ranks but this isn’t always so because I’ve seen blogs with over 400 backlinks and only page rank 1 to show for all their effort and @ the same time, I’ve seen blogs with little or no backlinks but with PRs around 3 -4.

Take for example Dan Keller of Tycoon Blogger who was miffed at being bumped down to PR 2 despite all his consistency in building backlinks (over 1,500 till date according to him) and posting regularly on his blog. It didn’t even help matters that one of his static sites with only 37 backlinks and no updates in a long time was upped to PR 4.

However, I’ve come to notice that, what these highly backlinked sites, if such a phrase exists, actually enjoy, is a huge traffic brought on by their pages being listed on the 1^st page of the SERPs.

A huge page rank boosts your ego like it did mine when I moved up to Page Rank 2 but then it doesn’t pay the bills as it doesn’t ALWAYS get you the amount of search engine traffic which is needed to make a killing @ Google Adsense, affiliate marketing etc.

Effective Backlinking on Dofollow, Commentluv and Keywordluv enabled blogs

Over these past months, I’ve come to learn to promote only my top 15 blog posts as they are responsible for the bulk of my search engine traffic.

When commenting on dofollow blogs with Commentluv and Keywordluv, depending on the type of dofollow plug-in activated on the blog, you are entitled to 2 dofollow links. The Commentluv generated link gives you 10 options only unless you’re a paid subscriber . Using the Keywordluv link, I strive to promote one of my top 15 posts using a choice of keywords.

It typically goes like this: I fill in the Name@My Optimized Keyword, Email and URL fields and then start typing my comment. By the time I’m done typing my comments, Commentluv would have pulled the last 10 posts on my blog out of which I proceed to choose one. After this is done, I then substitute my blog’s home page URL with the URL of the blog post for which I’ve chosen that Optimized Keyword. I click the submit button and I’m done

Here is an example of what I’m talking about.

You can get your own list of top blog posts and keywords via Google Analytics or WP-PostViews plug-in widget.

REMEMBER, DEPENDING ON WHAT KIND OF DOFOLLOW PLUG-IN IS BEING USED ON THE BLOG, YOU MIGHT BE ONLY BE GETTING ONE DOFOLLOW BACKLINK AS IT IS HERE WHERE I USE LUCIA’S LINKY LOVE PLUG-IN.

Aside from my top 15 blog posts, I also select a few unpopular posts to create backlinks to thus another healthy tip, which I’ve used in the past, is to study the entry point of my traffic using FeedJit. The goal here is to monitor which keywords brought the visitor to your site and at which position on the SERPS you were @ that point in time. Posts on the first page are a hit and so you must strive to build some backlinks to them instead of your blog’s homepage.

Here’s how I do it.

I click on “Watch in Real Time” just below the traffic stats bar as shown below:

This takes me to the page below where I then scan for traffic that came in through Google just like the one shown below.

Clicking on the keyword circled in red will take me back to the search engine page and then show me at what PROBABLE* position I was at the time the search was made and clicked.

*Probable: Note that I said probable above because it’s a known fact that Google SERPS vary for the same search in different geographical location/data centers.

Any keyword that appears on the first page amongst over 400,000 sites is a hit for me and I go all out to create more backlinks to it.

As you can see below, I’m @ position 3 for the long tail "top 5 paid online survey sites" out of over 2.6 million search results.

I hope these little tips help in your backlink creation activities. Feel free to share your tips at getting more backlinks.

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