This blog is a DO FOLLOW comment blog. Why? Because we believe Google should ban spam not blogs linking to each other for legitimate reasons. Also, commenters should be rewarded for good comments by pimping their sites a little bit. Good for direct traffic and good for SEO.
Here’s the graphic of our official position:
Of course, we don’t want our site to be infested by spamtastic links next to crappy comments so we make sure to upgrade to the latest versions of WP, we have Akismet turned on, and we heavily moderate for quality comments. What are the quality comments we are looking for? Anything that engages conversation–questions, suggestions, offering tidbits.
The difference between Spam and Content
Spam, by itself, is too salty. To make it taste better, Hawaiians wrap it in nori (dried seaweed wrapper), put in some rice dabbed with a swig of some rice vinegar, and some egg. From SPAM to Hawaiian spam musubi. From a salty piece of pork to a Polynesian delicacy. Use that same philosophy when making backlinks. Use real content. Participate.
Many webmasters consider NO FOLLOW a curse. They think that it unnecessarily restricts their linkbuilding efforts. Indeed, many webmasters think that WordPress’ default NOFOLLOW tag on comments 
If you’re just commenting for backlink volume, as mentioned in our earlier critique of 
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YouTube gets crazy traffic. We’re talking hundreds of millions of page views. For marketers, the challenge has always been how to get a slice of this traffic and do it within the rules of YouTube. This means no comment spam or obvious spam links. Regardless, it’s obvious people are still running comment spam bots–betting on the pure statistical possibility that a huge amount of comment spam can yield some decent paste in traffic.![](http://i49.tinypic.com/ilwt4j.gif")
Getting free traffic from DrudgeReport.Com
One of our readers alerted us to an interesting way to get traffic from Drudge Report, the wildly popular (#446 on Alexa) conservative news aggregation site. It appears many marketers watch the site for new updates that feature sites that allow user comments. Normally, a drudge featured story is good for several thousand views. Once such a site is included on the main page of Drudge, marketers would post in intervals using their DOMAIN as their name. Note that MOST of the sites posted on Drudge do NOT allow domain names so domains are often SPELLED OUT. See below (site name redacted).
We imagine the traffic to be good (Drudge gets more traffic than DIGG) until the article gets bumped off the main page with another update. Since many of the stories are syndicated by a HUGE network of blogs that blog Drudge’s stories, there’s probably a good chance of a small residual flow of traffic stretching for weeks.
In terms of niche, we surmise that the types of sites that would benefit best from this traffic are those that are TOPICALLY-RELATED. Conservative news blogs are the first that to come to mind. Other possibly related niches–forex sites with a conservative slant, goldbug type sites, etc. Like with any other type of marketing–niche relevance increases conversions. Jerry Garcia / Phish paraphernalia websites probably has as much chance of selling to this crowd as Obama commemorative T-Shirts at Tea Party rallies.
As always, read the TOS of the sites you are commenting on and make sure your activities fall within their guidelines.
Image Credit: Breitbart.com