{"id":20,"date":"2011-03-22T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T23:15:11","slug":"climb-up-the-serps-using-targeted-commenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/climb-up-the-serps-using-targeted-commenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Climb up the SERPs using targeted commenting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, imagine this situation.\u00a0 Your page finally got ranked for that keyword.\u00a0 But, now it&#8217;s stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a simple and easy way to move up the rankings for your keyword.\u00a0 Do a search for your keyword and scan all the listings before yours.\u00a0 Maybe even look a few pages back after your listing.\u00a0 Look for any page that allows commenting, which can take the form of a blog post, news article, forum thread, etc.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Comment on those pages to generate backlinks.\u00a0 This is a very targeted form of commenting and about <strong>as efficient use of your time spent commenting as possible<\/strong>, because you are generating backlinks from pages that you know for a fact Google feels is valuable and relevant to your keyword.<\/p>\n<p>Before you make a comment, be sure to verify the backlinks are not &#8220;nofollow&#8221; links.\u00a0 (Unfamiliar with the &#8220;nofollow&#8221; REL attribute?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nofollow\">Take a look here<\/a>.)\u00a0 &#8220;Nofollow&#8221; links pass on no link juice to your page and, so, won&#8217;t help your ranking efforts.<\/p>\n<p>If you find the parent site is relevant to yours, I would also recommend\u00a0  contributing to that site (e.g. writing a guest blog post).\u00a0 This is an effective  way to not only build quality backlinks, but also drive targeted traffic to your site.<\/p>\n<p>Efficiency and effective use of time is a key motivation behind building autoscale, autopilot sites.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>dave<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, imagine this situation.\u00a0 Your page finally got ranked for that keyword.\u00a0 But, now it&#8217;s stuck. Sound familiar? Here&#8217;s a simple and easy way to move up the rankings for your keyword.\u00a0 Do a search for your keyword and scan all the listings before yours.\u00a0 Maybe even look a few pages back after your listing.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo","tag-blog-commenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}