Gaming Top Commentators for Easy Backlinks

Posted on December 16th, 2007 in Link Building, Traffic Generation

Want hundreds of relevant site-wide backlinks on ranked blogs with a few minutes of work? Yeah, we all do. If you know much about wordpress, you know that when you post comments, they are generally no-followed to discourage spam (this doesn’t prevent bots from trying to spam this site, however). But comment spam can generate tons of backlinks if done correctly. How? That’s where the Top Commentators plugin comes in.

So first, what is Top Commentators plugin?
From the wordpress site:

The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators
in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin at Personal
Financial Advice, this widget is easier to manage via the control form
(no need to edit the PHP file); additional options are also available to
make it more flexible. Read the FAQ section on how to customize the widget,
and take a look at the screen shot to see the control form for customizing
the Top Commentators Widget.

Basically it puts a widget on the sidebar of the site (generally displayed on every page on the site) that shows the names and website link of the top 10 people who have commented on the site for that day/week/month/year/whatever. Unlike the links put in normal comments, however, these links are not marked with nofollow, so they’ll generate solid backlinks in google.

Gaming top commentators for backlinks is pretty easy if you think smart about it. Fire up google, type in the niche for your site followed by “top commentators” and you should get a good number of on-topic blogs with the plugin installed. Tons of these blogs will have very few top commentators, depending on when the last time they were reset was, or how many people actually leave comments, and you’ll be able to leave a few crappy comments in 5 minutes or so and you’ll have sitewide links to your site for free. If it’s a popular blog, you’ll get a good number of visits from people clicking your stuff too.

So, the idea is not THAT complicated. So what can we do to make it easier than manually checking each link in google and then going and commenting. One piece of software that can help with this is CommentHut. Go grab the free version to try it out. The site looks like a spammy sales page (probably because it is) but the program does what it says it will. Basically you enter the keywords you want to search for on google (discussed above) and it will check all the results to find wordpress blogs, check their google pagerank, export them to csv, whatever. This should save you quite a bit of time. Here’s a screenshot of commenthut in action:

When you leave comments on blogs, keep in mind if you’ve never posed comments there before, they will probably have to be approved, so try to make them seem a little relevant to the post you’re spamming.

Anyway, enjoy.