Big Announcements = Big PageRank
Disclaimer: This post is merely a theory; an idea of mine. You could completely ignore it, or you can try and put it to good use. I’ve gotten one PR7 backlink out of this, and though you would like to know what to do.
The huge announcements of new sites, redesigns, tech products, breakthroughs and pretty much anything Apple suck in a ton of backlinks. When news is covered by the big boys of tech news, namely TechCrunch, Mashable, Engadget, Gizmodo, etc… It is likely to be well linked throughout the world. Relevant links, too. Mix that in with Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us contributing to spreading the word…
What do You Have?
All that, and you get a ton of links to that one post. The theory? Comment on that post.
Forget about the traffic you could get from the comment, just get it out there. Make it a good comment, though. It doesn’t have to share anything, but if it goes into a moderation queue, you want it approved.
I’m pretty transparent, and I know you’re curious as to the post I got that PR7 link on. Well, March 1st marked the release of DreamHost’s new admin panel. This post went live seconds before my own did, but theirs is official. Basically, a whole mess with Digg, their story getting buried, mine getting nearly Dugg, buried and all… I commented on their post as #5.
Now, the number doesn’t matter. It just matters that there is a link to my site on that page.The risk you run is having nofollow on it, which that does, but we’ll see how that works out in the future.
If you want to try this, no one will stop you, in fact it’s a good idea to help build your own PR. Another sneaky way is to go deep into the archives of popular blogs with nofollow disabled and post comments on those. To get Google back to that page and to see your new link, link to page yourself.
If anyone does this, let me know, but as of now I can’t attest to it’s success.
Leave a comment
Ryan
August 26th, 2007 at 1:56 PM
I’m not sure I totally get what you’re suggesting here. Do you mean the PR is coming from having the first comment or writing a post about the same thing?
Ukrainian
August 26th, 2007 at 2:01 PM
Note that every page on site has a different PR , it is not the same as on index page. Or I did not get your idea, like Ryan
Adam Mckerlie
August 26th, 2007 at 4:50 PM
I’m a little confused as well. Most of the big sites ask you to sign-up and have a profile, which doesn’t means your comment doesn’t link to your home page it links to your profile page.
Ryan
August 26th, 2007 at 6:40 PM
Well like he said, its only a theory. On some levels there is still the traffic that would result from the whole thing. Commenting on a huge announcement is certainly worthwhile no matter what the outcome; PR or traffic.
Mutiny Design
August 26th, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Likewise, I’m a bit lost
On dofollow blogs. I made a PHP script that find blogs that don’t have no follow if anyone would like it. Pretty simple, find pages that contain the word ‘comments’ but not ‘nofollow’.
Connor Wilson
August 26th, 2007 at 9:06 PM
I mean, if the site has nofollow disabled, and it announces something that will get tons of links, get your name in there. Hope I didn’t cause any confusion :\
Get the 1000th comment by the way. It’s in this post
Email coming soon to that person.
Mutiny Design
August 27th, 2007 at 8:56 AM
I see. I have read some ‘SEO experts’ saying that any links from blogs are more or less ignored, but that is simply not true. I know a site with a PR7 with less than 3,000 links and most of them are from blog comments.
PS - If make the 1000th comment, dont send an email to the email I use for comments, because it is my spam email and i’ll never find it. use the contact form on the web site.
David Airey
August 27th, 2007 at 9:13 AM
Congrats on passing the 1,000th comment mark!
Personally, I wouldn’t go delving into archives just because a website has nofollow disabled. I’d do it because I’m interested in the content.
Connor Wilson
August 27th, 2007 at 9:38 AM
Thanks David, and for the record, this is more of a tip to those just discovering PageRank and aiming for that boost, before they find out it’s importance is a fraction of what they thought.
I only really started getting involved in other blogs as of late (couple months maybe) but I find it impossible to comment on an uninteresting story or site. I guess it’s kind of hypocritical to recommend delving into archives then, isn’t it?
Live and learn I guess.
Mutiny Design
August 27th, 2007 at 11:57 AM
I agree with David if the blog has nothing your interested in you shouldn’t post on it just because it doesn’t have nofollow. But I think webmasters should give some sort of incentive to post comments. On my very stagnant (what you could call a blog) I have implemented a system in which people who make more than three comments will have more nofollow removed on their subsequent posts.
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