There are a lot of backlink building techniques in the arsenal of your typical SEO company. A lot of gurus will tell you that every technique has it’s place and time, and that none should be discarded out of hand. At one point, that may have been true, but is it still?
First, let’s make it clear what we’re talking about here. By forum posting, we’re talking about going onto a forum, joining conversations, becoming a valued member, and then laying out some subtle links to your landing pages. By blog posting, we’re not talking about your own blog — we’re talking about going onto other people’s blogs and commenting on them in a way that results in a backlink to your website.
Why Forum Posting Takes Too Much Time
Forum posting involves a lot of community involvement. It’s like social media, only without all of the pretty ‘+1’ buttons — and also without the extraordinary volume of people participating. When you start posting on a forum, you’re investing time and energy into something that might not pan out.
If you start laying your links out only to have the community reject you for marketing on their message board, you’re completely SOL. On the other hand, the forums that have a policy of allowing marketing tend to be frequented almost entirely by marketers — or people who are so inured to marketing techniques that you’ll never get a click from the boards in the first place.
Why Commenting on Blog Posts Takes Too Much Time
There are two similar problems with posting blog comments. First, you have to find a blog that has a decent PageRank, is relevant, and will allow you to comment in the first place — and then on top of that it has to have an administrator that won’t can your comment for being a backlink. Usually you can get around that last point by making your comment cogent and interesting, but that takes time in and of itself.
But the real problem with commenting on a blog is anchor text. Most blogs won’t let you put hyperlinks in the meat of your blog, which means that if you want the right anchor text for your link, you’re going to have to claim that your name is “ninja throwing stars” or whatever your site’s keyword is. That’s a giant red flag to the blog admin, and will almost certainly get your comment canned.
In short, these two forms of backlink building are dead and best left that way. Don’t waste your time.
143 thoughts on “Forum Posting and Blog Posting: Worth The Time?”
The site’s been up for a few months, and is doing okay, but I was wondering if its worth it to pay for advertising; i was contemplating using stumbleupon. The website is http://www.themmanews.com
I want to add an image to each of my blog posts. Not my blog, but just to the posts. What would the code be for that?
I have a blog about my hometown, having made several posts i think it’s now worth sharing with the public, but so far I have under 200 hits, basically just my own friends and family. How do I get it out there?
I have no money to spend on advertising this.
I wanted to blog Kangalu mathematics discoveries and found difficulties in posting images to the blog from http// 2007(1)doc
OKkkkkkk…Here is my question, I opened my yahoo 360 page a few days ago, I have been posting blogs posts and it has done nothing but muck about…i.e. double posting and comment boxes with no posts…I have deleted my blog posts now BUT the highlighted posts are still showing in the side bar and when I click on them a blank comment box shows.
Can someone out there PLEASE tell me how to clear it or anything that will fix this…I have contacted the yahoo 360 help team but as usual they are as SLOooooowwwww as Yahell it self.
Can someone PLEASE help.
Ive made a blog for selling cane machines ,
I put the first pics on the first post ,
Then on the 2nd post i put more but they come up at the top . so the whole things not right.
Is there a setting to make the first post stay at the top and the 2nd at the 2nd etc etc.
I am going to put up a blog posting and talking about videos that are really worth checking out and stuff. How do i get views?
Hi there
My problem is, that I want to submit a blog post. When I click on submit, my Browser loads only a white page with nothing inside, and eventually my post isn’t posted to the blog.
I found other people experiencing that. They all had Anti Virus software block those sites. I turned off everything like anti virus or firewall, so that is not the problem.
Any help will receive 10 points!!
Thanks
If I post my website URL to message boards, classifieds, guestbooks, etc…will it improve my search ranking? [will I be listed further at the top of search results?]
i wanna promote these someplace else but where & how!
youtube username (juts add after youtube.com/)
HSMZacEfronHSM
Blogger:
http://www.fromblackout2breakout.blogspot.com
I want to include footnotes in a blog post, but I am 100% positive it’s impossible to format superscript or subscript letters or numbers in the application I’m using. There’s no way around this.
How can I format the footnotes? For instance, should I do something like this? (1) Or should I do something else, possibly like this [2] or something else?
I don’t know what the established format is, when you can’t use superscript or subscript numerals or characters.
1. Does this work?
[2] Is this better?
Thank you!
I have recently changed my Blog URL on Blogspot to something different, and have a question about Google. With my old URL which gathered an average 70 visits a day, I could search and find nearly every post I made. Now with my changed URL, but same exact blog, I have resubmitted it to Google, and can only find the homepage, and posts I have made in the past week since the blog was submitted. My question is, will Google crawl my blog and eventually index all of my 700+ previous posts making them available to search for, or will only my new posts be indexed?
If it helps, my old URL was alakalaka99.blogspot.com , and the new one is http://macksimumrage.blogspot.com
Does anyone know any good basketball discussion forums, ones where there are plenty of people? (I post on a few NBA blogs, but most of them have about three regulars and are hardly worth my time.) I don’t want to join in the abuse of Yahoo Answers by using it for debate.
Do I have to have blog post an article or there’s some sort of a “public blog” where I can register and post (like http://www.igotfunny.com and no this is not a spam… this is the only example i found)
In twitter it is said to be microblogging
In facebook it is said to be posting status (posts)
There are few forum website available and in social network websites also we finds forums.
So mainly whats exactly is the difference between blogs, microblogs, posts & forums?
I have had many reports from friends that the last entry on my 360 blog they can access is one I posted a month ago, but it varies, as others are able to post comments. It only seems to affect around half of my friends. I have 35 friends in total. Who do I e-mail as it is clearly a Yahoo! related issue? Can someone PLEASE send me the correct link. Thanks. Have Fun…x
This is 30 plus blogs my friends are unable to access, but not ALL of them. Strange! Why?
curiositykilledthekilljoy.blogspot.com
ive wrote blogs before, but have never promoted them for others to read.
i recently moved to blogspot to blog this week and love writing in it.
i love my new blogspot home and my posts.
but when you skim through my posts, does it catch your eye?
do you like what you see??
what about the whole site you do an don’t like??
i know my topic CAN be quirky, but that’s just how I am.
=]
thanks for constructive critiques!
(and I know it’s in the wrong catergory)
it has a little bit of everything in it.
fashion…piercings…Gullah Gullah Island!
=]
don’t be a killjoy!
check it out and tell me how it is!
When someone has posted a blog, what do “kudos” mean?
I don’t understand if it’s something good or bad.
I posted a blog entry about a week ago with no problems. Now, I can compose a blog entry but when I try to actually post it, nothing (or sometimes only the title) is there. I tried several times and got pretty much the same result each time. Sometimes it would allow me to post a single paragraph but when I tried to post the entire blog entry it still wouldn’t work. This has been going on for the past couple of days.
Also, navigating around my 360 site is SUPER SLOW. It takes forever to bring up different pages (I only have this problem on 360).
Anyone have any ideas?
I want to separate 3 latest posts in 3 different divs. The latest post will be appeared on top of page. Two latest post (2nd & 3rd latest) will be placed below, on right and left div). Anyone can help me how to do that?
opps, i guess i did not explain clearly.
if anyone can help me, can tell me the html on how to put differen day’s blog post on a different box.
eg. the recent’s post is on top in one box. then followed on by other posts in each of their own box.
thank you so much.
why need blog comment posting?
I want to make my WordPress blog to do the following:
*Blog post entry’s title redirect to an external URL.
*A separate icon that direct to the internal blog post’s permalink.
It’s kind of like how Link Posts in Tumblr works. When you click the title, it directs you to an external webpage. But there’s another another icon that directs you to the entry’s own permalink.
Currently, I can make title & icon all redirect externally or both direct internally. So my question is, how do you make each (title & icon) direct to different URLs.
Thanks very much in advance.
How can i post images within my blog posts. I’m using blogger and whenever i click on upload image link it starts uploading image but doesn’t get displayed anywhere, so anybody has any idea how to go about displaying images in blog posts?
Since 2009, I have been running my blog, which has become popular. The only problem is I started with WordPress.com, moved over to Blogger, and now have a self-hosted WordPress blog. I would love to have all of my content on the self-hosted WordPress blog, but I want it to show up properly. On the new hosted blog, I have 50 posts already that I want to remain on the front pages. I would like to import all the posts from the other blogs over with the images and embeds properly showing up. I am virtually a one-man team, could anyone please help me accomplish this seemingly impossible feat?
Hi every one, I am having a blog in which I compose and publish my own poetry. My doubt is that if somebody ever happen to steal my poetry from my blog and use it commercially for his benefit, then can I make a legal claim by citing the date when originally that poetry was published by me on my blog.
Will courts accept the date my poetry was published on my blog as an evidence? or they accept only if such Literary works are published in some books or magazines as an authentic proof? Pls. answer…..
Basically I would like to know the steps to provide a link to other people’s 360 blogs or to individual blog posts, or even web sites, etc. I would like to be able to direct readers of my 360 to other people’s blogs/posts to share areas of interest.
Can someone aid me in writing my first blog post. My blog will be mostly about general stuff but mostly include anime and game reviews etc.
I have just started a blog but i don’t really know what to write as my first blog.
How to easily Copy my blog posts to my new vbulletin forum?
i just need an easiest way kindly just tell me….
how to post it automatically through rss feed?
If the blog you are posting on is your own you might be able to automatically post via RSS feed from your wordpress site. If not then go up to the URL when you are on your blog post and and copy that full address. Paste it exactly as you copied and it will provide a hyperlink to your blog. If you want you can actually copy and paste the entire blog as well.
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I want to interlink my blog posts on my website http://www.nigeriacentre.com/ but don’t know how to go about it?
How do search engines view pay per blog posting, where you pay somebody to write about and link your website in their blog?
In the past, Google would pick up my new blog posts within 2-3 hours.
I would write 5-10 new blogs posts daily and most of them will be indexed in Google within 2-3 hours.
However, none of my new blog posts since Thursday have been indexed into Google. According to Google WebMaster Tools, the Googlebot still visits my SiteMap and has updated the # of posts I have on my blog, but has not added any new blog posts to the search engine.
Why would the Googlebot visit my Site Map every 3 hours still, but not add any additional posts to their search engine?
Some say it is the Google Dance…..What is the Google Dance and how does the Google Dance relate to my issue?
Thank you
my blog 360 post but my friends don’t see
can you help me
When I put them in all I get is a blank yellow video box when the blog posts, but I’ve seen others that are still able to show the content.
What gives?
I know about checking and unchecking the HTML box when preparing the post, so its something else.
In twitter it is said to be microblogging
In facebook it is said to be posting status (posts)
There are few forum website available and in social network websites also we finds forums.
So mainly whats exactly is the difference between blogs, microblogs, posts & forums?
First, I thought “Twitter”, right? Well it’s just not really what I’m looking for.
I need a website where I can upload images directly from my computer, and post it like a thread post; Then people can comment on this blog/thread-like post below.
Another thing that’s really important is that I can make, like, tabs– “Home”, “Artwork”, “Videos”, “Daily Blog”, etc.
I have tried google, and apparently there are a lot of websites where you can make your own page, but I can’t be too accurate with the google search as much as I want to be.
I use a blgspot blog. My question is, when you type the content of your post and it is extemely long, I have seen some blogs cut off the post and allow the user to click a link to see the entire post. This would save space and is really practical, but I have no idea how to do it…Thanks, if what I am saying makes no sense, sorry.
I’ve my wordpress blog. Whenever i publish any post on my blog it takes nearly two weeks to come in search of search engines like google! Is there anyway so that as i publish any post it will come on google at the moment. http://www.roneetmichael.wordpress.com
OK, i created an account in blog spot, but i don’t know what to post about i wanted to post things a bout fashion but i don’t know if you guys have some ideas please tell me
I have started to keep a blog for my daughters, so that I could document all of their “baby” moments. I started the blog (blogger.com) in October and I have been also working backwards to try to post their past milestone/moments, etc. Does anyone know how I can change the posting order? Right now, they post as I finish them, but I am hoping to be able to “date” them and then post them in order according to the date it “happened” instead of the current date. Hopefully that makes sense…does anyone know if I can do that? Thanks!
I have a blog and I’m looking to get more traffic. How can I repost my blog posts on other websites?
I have a blog & a Yahoo group. I want that wen I post to my blog my all groups members gets the mail? how it’s possible? what will I do? Can Any One help me?
I lost my old blog account for awhile.So i went for a new blog.Now my friend revived my blog and all my blog posts are still there.How to import the posts and post on my new blog under old dates.P.s I dont have the blogger account.i only have the posts.
I have a blog, but I don’t know what to do for a first post. I did an inaugural post, and now I can’t think of anything. Any ideas?
It’s supposed to be about music, art, opinions, somewhat fashion, rants, whatever really. 🙂
In twitter it is said to be microblogging
In facebook it is said to be posting status (posts)
There are few forum website available and in social network websites also we finds forums.
So mainly whats exactly is the difference between blogs, microblogs, posts & forums?
In twitter it is said to be microblogging
In facebook it is said to be posting status (posts)
There are few forum website available and in social network websites also we finds forums.
So mainly whats exactly is the difference between blogs, microblogs, posts & forums?
I have a blog and a facebook page. Now i want that every post I update on my blog should be followed by facebook share button plus there should be an automatic update on my page containing the link of my blog post(with the header of the post written). I use blogger as my blogging platform.
What site can i share my blog posts?(digg etc. anybody see links,posts)
i want to share more people my writings
or we create comunnity blog on yahoo groups;)
what is your ideas?
i want to add post and get more traffic
example xxx facebook groups can i share my links…
thanks/respect with all
i want to add post and get more traffic
example xxx facebook groups can i share my links…
thanks/respect with all
i want to add post and get more traffic
example xxx facebook groups can i share my links…
thanks/respect with all
I am very confused and also want to know which one is better?
I’m trying to do some SEO for my site, and I know that backlinks are key. And I’ve heard alot about forum profile backlinks, like angela or pauls backlinks, but I can’t do all these by hand. So what’s the best automated backlink software? As close to automated as possible..