Commenting on Contest Posts Will Increase Pagerank Juice

Written by admin on March 16, 2009 – -

If you’re like me, you probably don’t comment that much on posts. Now I’m not saying that I don’t want to but when I read a great post and don’t have two cents to add, usually I won’t say anything. But on the other hand, you should almost always comment on contest posts. It can help you in more ways than one.

Contest posts are loved by search engines, especially Google. Think about it, your standard contest will probably have an option for people to blog about the contest and link back to the contest post, right? Because a lot of people are doing this, the post is getting a lot of one-way links and search engines love to see that.

And although most blogs have the “no-follow” attribute for the comments, you are still getting some link juices. Just not as much as if they were “do-follow.” But don’t worry, either way it helps with your pagerank and if you’re not one of those linking to the post but just commenting, you should increase the benefits as well (one-way linking).

If you notice, most contest posts for specific blogs are shown on the first page of the search results.

Don’t believe me? Just type in “AnotherMMOblog.com” in Google and you should see a bunch of contest-related posts showing up, especially the two simple contests I have/had here.

What I’m saying is the fact that even if you choose not to participate in the contest, you should still at the very least comment on the post to get some of the backlink juices.

I tried out this technique on one of my newer blogs and the only thing I did to build links was commenting on contest posts (I probably did like 50 or so) and my blog ended up ranking as PR3 from the last Google update.

So if you’re a die hard pagerank fan, then you should at the very least try this method out.

It worked for me so it should definitely work for you guys!

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4 Responses to “Commenting on Contest Posts Will Increase Pagerank Juice”

  1. By Ali Hussain on Mar 16, 2009 | Reply

    I have a contest @ http://techuse.net

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  2. By earnword on Mar 18, 2009 | Reply

    i agree with you. I always do a lots of commenting to increasing pagerank. But its up to my time. I can’t do all the time.

  3. By Sherry on Mar 30, 2009 | Reply

    I have PR2 because I use my blog for comment

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  4. By The Hawg! on Apr 10, 2009 | Reply

    You are very correct — commenting builds back links and that is very important.

    I never thought about commenting on contest posts so I’ll keep that in mind. Generally, I just comment when I see something worth talking about (like you’re article!) and never think that terribly much about page rank.

    However, it’s turned out that my ranking has gone up considerably over the past few months. I can only conclude that’s from being a loudmouth who writes a lot of comments ;)
    The Hawg!s last blog post..My daughter is wacky for cows

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